What to Do - Finally Got Federal Job But I HATE It

[Anonymous]

Stay until the probationary period is complete then you can apply as a status candidate to other jobs for the next grade up or lateral. If the manager doesn’t care don’t worry yourself about it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you work at the IRS? this was my experience as a GS-15 there and I did not make it a year. It was AWFUL.

Well that’s disheartening about the IRS..

Breeding ground for large asssholes. People leave like cockroaches 🪳 when you turn on the light to pee in the middle of the night scrambling for the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you work at the IRS? this was my experience as a GS-15 there and I did not make it a year. It was AWFUL.

Well that’s disheartening about the IRS..

Breeding ground for large asssholes. People leave like cockroaches 🪳 when you turn on the light to pee in the middle of the night scrambling for the door.

Damn!

[Anonymous]

Disgruntled types revive old thread to grind their axes, film at 11.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the government. What did you expect? Now you can get paid to do nothing like so many others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like the government. What did you expect? Now you can get paid to do nothing like so many others.

Disgruntled non-feds revive old thread to grind their axes, part 2.

[Anonymous]

Federal jobs are slow and boring, and to move up it takes some time. And transfer are not really transfers you still have to look for a job out of state. And the pay rate is 27 percent below national average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I need help! I recently started work at my first federal job (recent, meaning have been here about 4 months). I absolutely hate working here and feel trapped. I was interviewed virtually so could not really get a sense of/feel for the culture of the office until I started. I knew on day one that it was a huge mistake and after doing some digging realized this agency is ranked almost dead last in those annual work surveys and I can easily see why.

The main reasons I dislike the job are that it is extremely unprofessional - everyone is extremely loud, lots of cursing, constant gossiping and I feel like literally, barely anyone is working. They will sit in each others offices for hours talking at the top of their lungs about the most mundane things - recipes, working out, hot guys on instagram, etc. And I am not exaggerating when I say hours - sometimes for a full two hours upon arriving at work or right after lunch. This would be fine if there was a way to have my own space but the office suite itself is tiny, the walls are super thin and the hallways are very narrow, so you can't help but hear everything. Also, management is lazy and not invested, takes really long vacations, constant long weekends and has essentially delegated "training" to my co-workers, who will assist with telling me how to do a task or training when they feel like it but not necessarily when I ask or when I need it. For example (we are hybrid a few days), I will ask for help on a task that is due the next day and instead of responding, my co-worker will schedule a meeting a week or so in advance to discuss what needs to be done to complete a task that is due today in order to avoid doing any work on a day we are working from home. The supervisors don't address these issues because essentially, they have delegated their jobs to the staff. And the result is that my professional growth here is stunted because it is dependent upon someone feeling like helping me learn these new tasks. I don't get the sense that they dislike me - it just seems like this is just how they do things and the way to not have to work too hard is to slow down information sharing and training so only they know what to do so you can't do it faster.

What can I do to survive? Just FYI, I am about 15 years out of school (so not maybe mid-career or not quite there) and generally, I do compliance work. The office is mostly paralegals but I am not one. I am miserable and honestly, am not interested in going to a new federal agency because I fear it would be much of the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I need help! I recently started work at my first federal job (recent, meaning have been here about 4 months). I absolutely hate working here and feel trapped. I was interviewed virtually so could not really get a sense of/feel for the culture of the office until I started. I knew on day one that it was a huge mistake and after doing some digging realized this agency is ranked almost dead last in those annual work surveys and I can easily see why.

The main reasons I dislike the job are that it is extremely unprofessional - everyone is extremely loud, lots of cursing, constant gossiping and I feel like literally, barely anyone is working. They will sit in each others offices for hours talking at the top of their lungs about the most mundane things - recipes, working out, hot guys on instagram, etc. And I am not exaggerating when I say hours - sometimes for a full two hours upon arriving at work or right after lunch. This would be fine if there was a way to have my own space but the office suite itself is tiny, the walls are super thin and the hallways are very narrow, so you can't help but hear everything. Also, management is lazy and not invested, takes really long vacations, constant long weekends and has essentially delegated "training" to my co-workers, who will assist with telling me how to do a task or training when they feel like it but not necessarily when I ask or when I need it. For example (we are hybrid a few days), I will ask for help on a task that is due the next day and instead of responding, my co-worker will schedule a meeting a week or so in advance to discuss what needs to be done to complete a task that is due today in order to avoid doing any work on a day we are working from home. The supervisors don't address these issues because essentially, they have delegated their jobs to the staff. And the result is that my professional growth here is stunted because it is dependent upon someone feeling like helping me learn these new tasks. I don't get the sense that they dislike me - it just seems like this is just how they do things and the way to not have to work too hard is to slow down information sharing and training so only they know what to do so you can't do it faster.

What can I do to survive? Just FYI, I am about 15 years out of school (so not maybe mid-career or not quite there) and generally, I do compliance work. The office is mostly paralegals but I am not one. I am miserable and honestly, am not interested in going to a new federal agency because I fear it would be much of the same.

Necroing year old threads to post memes from a month ago doesn’t seem very efficient to me.

[Anonymous]

This is crazy. I’m a GS 15 and nobody is doing water cooler talk in the office. Heck, I wish people did. I’m having teams calls when I’m in the office lol. We’re clearly doing something wrong in my agency because everybody is working overtime for fixed pay

[Anonymous]

come on, be courageous and name the agency!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:come on, be courageous and name the agency!

The post is a year old