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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a bad move.  I'm a DOJ attorney, and constantly evaluating my private sector options.  If WFH is reduced, I'll go with the money, understanding that I am being paid more and going in at least as often.[/quote]

And the DOJ will replace you in a heartbeat.  Bye![/quote]

Same, we have all of these people in their 60s and 70s threatening to retire if we return to the office and although I’d rather stay home too I hope we go back just enough for them all to retire from the jobs they’ve been sitting in for decades.[/quote]

+1.  They all believe they're irreplaceable.  Call their bluff.[/quote]

No one is replaceable but it takes a loooooooooong time to hire even one. If a few leave, that program will suffer[/quote]

No, it really won't.  Back in the Bush II administration, all of our vacancies were taken away, we were cut to whatever FTE on-board count we were at the moment.

And we didn't suffer.  Instead we had to really think about which positions to replace.

There's a LOT of fluff and we all know it.[/quote]

That is definitely not my experience. It takes us a year or two to replace someone and for the most part their work doesn't go away. I only know of one position in my division that was taken off the org chart - the only admin assistant, so now another division's admin assistant and a retired part time contractor do her work.

Yes, eventually the others will be replaced, but our work suffers in quality and timeliness for the year or two each position is vacant because everyone's covering multiple jobs. [/quote]

Everyone thinks they're the one federal employee who does all the work.  My coworkers think the same thing, meanwhile I watch an entire team take three days and two meetings to accomplish something that took my co-worker 30 minutes to do as they were spinning their wheels.

Sure there are some feds who work their butts off, and have truly important jobs -- Air Traffic Control, Border Patrol, VA doctors and nurses, etc -- but the vast majority of administrative positions are doing invented bull s*** work.  Even all the federal lawyers on here.  [/quote]

My entire team does a lot of work. There isn't a single slacker in my group. (There was one, but she quit, I now have a contractor working on her major project and am still trying to refill the position a full year later.)

Also, I'm kind of wondering if you're really a fed based on the sentence about taking 3 days and lots of meetings vs 30 minutes. There's tons of stuff we could get done in 30 minutes if multiple layers of management didn't want to get involved with the decision. It's not being slow with the work, it's the fact that we need to constantly brief up and get approvals to DO the work. Try doing it without those and the product gets yanked and upper management spends six months coming up with a new and more formalized approval process.

Is management bloat? Maybe. They're very fearful of political blowback so they want to be heavily involved in everything. But this doesn't in any way indicate that the actual SMEs and staff are "fluff." [/quote]

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