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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a govt atty offer at a similar agency and asked for one week to accept -- got the offer Friday at 6 pm and wanted as long as possible bc I was in a 3rd round with an employer I liked better. They were pissed but begrudgingly said I had until next Friday. So next Friday, I'm ready to call them at 10 am and before I can do that I get a v/m with an HR person SCREAMING at me that I had enough time. [b]So of course I call back, say yes, and let them do a background check only to re neg later[/b]. They encourage this kind of bad behavior.[/quote]

What?  You had a bad experience with HR so you acted extremely unprofessionally in return?[/quote]

No -- I'm saying that saying yes and letting them run a background check and figure out start dates etc. bought me WEEKS. That was enough time for the preferred offer to come through. If they had just acted like normal employers and said - get back to us in 2 weeks, I wouldn't have had to do that; I felt bad (sort of but not really after HR's bitchy-ness), but they create these situations by refusing to understand the reality that their job isn't the only job on earth and maybe someone is interviewing someplace else too.[/quote]

One week to consider an offer is perfectly "normal" in the private sector. [/quote]

Hiring authority in the federal government does not work like the private sector.  Our budgets in the last decade or so have consisted of month-long (or less) Continuing Resolutions.  We can only hire when we have money to do so.  It's illegal under the Anti-Deficiency Act for federal agencies to put $ forward that they don't have.  That includes salaries.  So when we have a budget, and hiring authority, it's often under a continuing resolution that lasts a matter of days, say until March 10.  And you come forward and ask to think about the offer until March 11?  We can't give you until March 11.  Because the money is gone after 10, and so is the hiring authority.  Any violation of the Anti Deficiency Act is a federal crime.[/quote]

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