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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12 percent of staff have NOT left. That’s 600 people. Not even close. [/quote]

Why the hell do NONE of us who work at this agency have ANY IDEA what the freaking plans are?[/quote]

If plans were (presumably) submitted to OPM yesterday, why would you expect to have heard about them?  This isn’t something that is going to leak easily.

I’m not sure folks at other agencies where nothing has happened yet have any better idea of what may happen in the future.[/quote]

I’m not expecting a leak. I’m expecting our leaders to offer some transparency or concern about us before and/or after plans were due. I’m expecting our leaders, who presumably care so much about this agency, and the agency’s mission, to care about the people who are helping achieve the mission.[/quote]

What could they say at this point?  They’ve submitted things to OPM and, until they receive feedback, they probably don’t have a great sense of how things will go.

Let’s say they are arguing that voluntary cuts to date and a hiring freeze for the last couple of years should mean no RIF is warranted.  It doesn’t help you to know that (because that may or may not be how things play out), and leaking that may make it harder to get OPM approval.

I guess if we were facing a bloodbath, people might want to know (even though you’d never yet be told on an individual level) because that might impact VERA/VISP decisions, but if they are still looking to make big cuts, I think there is a good chance they would offer a new window or extend the current one.[/quote]

Didn’t a judge just rule that OPM can’t make those decisions?

A more philosophical question: why would MU (or PA, or anyone else notable, for that matter) embarrass themselves and waste their mid careers being lapdogs for OPM or OMB? Both have great options in the private sector and can make much more money there. What’s the point of playing this game or going through this charade with opm?  It’s very weird.  I can see some B-list fox host wanting to do this, but why them? [/quote]

There is a big continuum along OPM making the decisions, MU/PA as nothing more than a lapdog doing OPMs bidding, and leadership making decisions informed by information and preferences of the administration.

Who know where things will actually play out.[/quote]

This is all academic. Nobody would fire the head of the SEC for not having a “good enough RTO policy” or “only cutting 9 percent of staff instead of 12 percent.”  He might get fired for bad climate or cyber policy, but not for mundane differences. I think opm has (and wants) a lot less “control” than people think. [/quote]

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