Reply to State Dept - are RIFs coming on Friday?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "State Dept - are RIFs coming on Friday?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I understand that people have good intentions by clapping for the laid off workers and posting the videos on social media, if I was one of the laid off people, I would greatly appreciate being able to exit quietly and not for the world to see. [/quote]

To give that some context, that is like a tradition. We clapped people off the visa adjudication line after their last adjudication on their last day at Post frequently, and apparently it's done elsewhere in similar situations within the department as well. [/quote]

Between the clapping and the hand made signs, it made State Department employees look like a bunch of hysterical theater kids.

They laid off 1,300 people. Thats less than 2% of a total workforce that had grown by 23,000 since 2007. It’s only a fraction of the employees that have been added since 2015. I think the agency will survive. [/quote]

As of Sept. 2024, there were:
12,831 CS employees (mostly domestic)
14,399 FS employees (mostly overseas)
50,703 Local Staff employees (foreign nationals, all overseas)
2,281 Family Member employees (spouses, all overseas)

This RIF was domestic based, focusing on 1,107 Civil Service, which is almost 10% of that category. Another roughly 5% of Civil Service took the DRP. Between Civil Service and Foreign Service, State is already a fairly lean agency, so these cuts will likely disrupt some important functions that employees overseas rely on, such as receiving timely travel orders. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics