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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You all stupid. contracts are funded through the fiscal year so no lay offs yet . Just excuses to cut dress weight.[.quote]

You are incorrect.  Contracts are committed through the term of the contract, but funding is done dynamically throughout the fiscal year often by quarters.  It's rare that a contract is funded for an entire year at a time.  I've worked primarily on five year contracts that are committed through tasks.  The exact amount of money for the task varies and not only year-to-year, but often quarter-to-quarter.  I've worked on contracts where in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, depending on how much money the directorate or division has to commit, the amount allocated to the job order that the contract bills to changes.  I've seen layoffs mid-year when the CO or the COTR on a contract decides that they need to save money and will decrease the amount allocated to the contract and tells the contractor that X task and Y task will receive less funding and which parts of the task do not need to be completed.  Often this means that certain jobs will be downsized/laid off.  Contractors have *NO* job security even when they are on a multi-year contact.  Over my 20 years at this agency, I have seen many, many people who have been laid off in the middle of the contract and others signed on (and even in a couple of cases, the laid off person was rehired later) as the agency had money to commit to the contract.

[quote=Anonymous]For those with jobs in the fed, I'd love to work there even with furlough. You don't go through layoffs every fucking quarter. You have a steady paycheck and benefits.

Signed,
Laid off worker [/quote]

Just to differentiate, you are talking about civil servants.  For those of us contracting to the federal government, we are subject to the whims of Congress and our agency.  I was laid off for 6 months on my last contract because the division decided that they did not have the amount of funds to fund all staff for the remainder of the fiscal year.  I was on a team of seven and had just switched from another task that had achieved end-of-life, but since I had the least seniority on the current task, I was let go.    In 20 years, I've known many (talking hundreds) of contractors who have left the agency and then come back.  And others who have left the agency and then struggled to get back to contracting at this agency (people like working at this agency).[/quote]

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