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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're an examiner, you are on a quota and its been referred to as a "legal sweatshop".  You probably won't work in a technology you are familiar with.

If you can handle the work, you can work 100% at home, on a special pay scale.  You can get bonuses up to 14% of pay which is unusual for federal employment.  You set your own hours, can work overtime and comp time.

The job is extremely flexible. Promotions are not competitive to GS-14, and rapid promotion from grades 5-11 (2x a year).[/quote]

Agree. My neighbor works there as an examiner and said it’s such a sweatshop someone died in the office, and everyone just kept working while the ambulance came. She also doesn’t get federal holidays. She’s trying to get out.[/quote]

What? None of this story your neighbor is telling you makes sense. of course we get all federal holidays off, along with fairly generous early dismissals, great sick leave and really flexible part time options for family care.  And most of us telework full time from home, anywhere in the country in fact, in flexible hours.  but we have private offices if you stay on campus anyway, so most people wouldn't necessarily know if someone had an emergency, but you could just flex your hours if you were upset by that.  Its nowhere near like a factory.  It's a job with tremendous flexibility and good benefits.  You do have to work your full hours to meet your quota, but nothing like the overtime put in in most of the private sector.  Examining can be tedious and people often go out on  details every Few years to get a break from it, but the independence and flexibility of examining is compelling.  Few leave the agency.  Most of those that do just aren't cut out for the work.  Would be tough Especially for someone who is an extreme extrovert or needs lots of people interaction and/or external motivation as It's pretty solitary, self directed work. -patent examiner for five years.[/quote]

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