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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm with you.  I'm a fed lawyer.  very, very, very low morale where I work.  It's awful.  And it doesn't have to be.  I just wish we could work smarter and not harder like trying to squeeze every bit of blood and life juice and penny out of every lawyer here and offering OT every week and people doing unpaid allniters and weekends etc.[/quote]

My DH is in the exact same situation, especially due to budget squeezes, no bonuses and furloughs, although hours are still sane. Federal lawyers are very unhappy with the punishment they're getting from the budget battles. It also creates hostile dynamics in the workplace, especially as people leave and are not replaced. Everybody still left has to cover for the lost employees, although temp attorneys occasionally fill in during crunch times. My sympathies, for you and everybody else on this thread.[/quote]

True (that take on low morale, etc.).

I'm one of the ones who left.  The environment in my office got more and more toxic and dysfunctional over the past 5-6 years to the point where we had 2 new top managers with less than 3 yrs. combined experience in our office ignoring the input (or not seeking it) of several (including me) with 20+ years each.  We watched them make mistake after mistake and tried not to say "we told you so" (because we didn't, they never asked) and offered insight but they appear to know it all.

So when sequestration forced a hefty chunk of furlough time and our office came up with more than 20 buyouts, I took one and left 4 years early.  I wish the atmosphere was such that I would want to stay but everyone I know wants out, it is a toxic and unhealthy situation, with little or no support from those who are supposedly in our corner.

Anyway, I retired.  I'm done.  I'm happier, more relaxed, and because we saved like hell for 30+ yrs., financially secure (contrary to popular belief, a Fed retirement alone won't quite get you all the way there).

Sympathies and condolences to all struggling, DW lost her job of 20+ yrs. effective today so will be ramping up her part time business to help offset that.

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