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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree 2x/week would make a huge difference. Even 1x/week and a more liberal ad hoc policy.

Personally, 5x/week would be a touch less exhausting if we still had an on site gym. I'm guessing I'm in the minority on this but that little thing would make a world of difference for me.[/quote]

I agree.  With the gym, I could use my lunch to get in a workout.  It still sucks to have the commute time but it didn’t preclude getting exercise.  Now it’s hard to fit that in after or before the commute given kid obligations.[/quote]

+1, the gym would help a lot. [/quote]

Heard they were looking into it but we are losing floors in SP2 to the CFTC. With that loss of space and people all being doubled up, off the table. [/quote]

They should look at all the deadweight in DERA.  All those economists (and lawyers) that barely do any work.  Of course they are over staffed with managers who contribute even less.[/quote]

Just on the numbers, DERA’s manager to staff ratio is one of the lowest in the Commission. For the true craziness in the number of managers you need to go to exams. [/quote]

Exams has a totally different thing going on because their exam managers are not supervisors so they don’t could in the ratios. And they are the workhorses of the division. It is entirely unclear what DERA does and why it needs hundreds of people.  Every time we ask it something they tell us it is impossible for them to do because everyone is so busy. [/quote].

Are exam managers SK-15s? They are. That means they are managers for the purposes of ratios. You can’t have it both ways - have the perks of being an SK-15 supervisor but then say you are not a managers. Unless we now have dozens of non-supervisory SK-15s. If so, how can we SK-14s get that promotion without being called a manager?[/quote]
They do not supervise people. [/quote]

Those exam managers who are SK-15s should be supervising people, even if they don’t have direct reports. I know some people in exams and they have branch chiefs in some groups, exam managers in others. If the exam managers aren’t performing supervisory functions then they should be demoted and serious questions should be asked about why they were receiving supervisory pay for doing no supervisory work.

The most recent GAO report shows that the ratio is something like 3 staff to every 1 manager in exams. This and many other offices are at all time lows for staff to managers. How is it that less than five month ago the agency had a VERA-VSIP directed at reducing the number of managers and now they are backfilling manager slots??? Who is running this agency???[/quote]

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