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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]lost my job during the recession and managed to get hired at the USPTO. A lot of the folks that got hired over the past several years were just like me... out of work and highly qualified and took a pay cut just because its the only job many of us could find (over 40 crowd). The pay is low and the work hours are long and the management is horrid. There are threats of being fired. The work environment just feels hostile. The production system is unreasonable. The first two years at this place I've worked 60 - 70 hour work weeks and I'm just now getting to the point were I'm able to get a weekend off in the middle of the bi-week. Count Mondays suck because the manager/reviewers don't bother to sign off on my work until the very last minute. Most of the guys in my work group feel the same. We've have about 50% of the new hires leave within the first year which is a probationary time. Yes.. today I worked for around 14 hours. It sucks.

I'm wondering if its just my tech center or is it more wide spread. Is there anyone else out there that has had the same experience?[/quote]

This is old news.  I worked at the USPTO straight out of college nearly 20 years ago.  I could have written your post nearly verbatim.  The guy that was supposed to be signing off on my work was not interested in being a SPO, so he just didn't do it.  He would put it off until count Mondays.  No, it is not just your art unit/tech center.  This is life at the USPTO.[/quote]

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