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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The trouble with RIF is that you have to be sure that you would actually be RIFd. If they reassign you to a nearby place for example, then you wouldn't necessarily be RIFd, so you wouldn't be eligible for severance.[/quote]

True, but this means you still have a job!  I can't think of a situation in which I wouldn't rather be reassigned.  If I don't like the reassignment, I could still look for a job but would be doing so from a position of employment.[/quote]

If it were an unsustainable commute. There are definitely locations within the DC locality pay area that I cannot commute to.

But I'm rolling the dice on the RIF. The certainty of having pay and benefits for another 5 months is not worth the price of definitely being unemployed in 6 months.

And I got my first "position not being filled" response to a local government application today. It is only going to get worse. [/quote]

I think that’s the right call.  RIFs are very complicated, which means they will try to avoid them and they mess them up if they do them, giving you a chance of getting your job back through lawsuits.  Also, if you say you are likely to be riffed because of your shorter tenure, who knows if they will follow the rules.[/quote]

Definitely true for the long run that there are places I wouldn't commute to.  But I'd make a long commute work right now just to keep federal employment (2 years away from a full pension and I'd like to stick it out).  I think I'd view that job as a temporary bird-in-hand job and start applying for others once the dust settles.

The way they are aggressively pushing Fork 2.0 in our agency means that a LOT of people are taking it-- way more than 1/2 of the staff will be gone soon, I think.  And the people leaving aren't proportional to where they will want people when all is said and done-- not enough gone in one unit and too many gone in another.  So I think there will be a lot of job openings by next fall as they try to reshape the units into what they want.  [/quote]

But would you want to work for this administration? The only people they'll get are people who couldn't be hired anywhere else.[/quote]

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