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At the end of the day I don't care if these workers stay in DC or move to Kansas City. But I also know at the end of the day they, as individuals, are not important. The bosses have decided. And life goes on. Shrugs. [/quote]

You ought to care that the the bosses, on your dime, are trying to get scientists to quit because they don't like what the scientists said. If you don't care, then you don't care, but you ought to care. [/quote]

Scientists can not work on climate change in KC?  Or that work can only be done in DC?[/quote]

So, the way that this is being done seems appropriate to you?  The speed, the reasoning (there is none), this doesn't strike you as an effort to antagonize and decimate this agency?

Ok.  Now I know how people fall for MLM schemes.[/quote]

No.  The military gets relocated all the time.  Private sector jobs get relocated, too.  It's not like the work being done changes.

I can totally understand the surprise but they've had nearly a year to absorb what's happening.  When we relocated it was more like 3 months, if that.[/quote]

People who join the military do so knowing that they will be relocated frequently.  They also have benefits that are meant to offset the inconvenience.  People in the private sector are paid more.  That is not analogous to a civil service job.  A scientist in a job like this wants to be somewhere with the most opportunities and the ability to collaborate with colleagues in other agencies.[/quote]

There may be advantages to having the jobs in KC that go beyond just COL/expense considerations.  I don't know why they have made this decision but I would think that punishing the employees is not the primary goal of the move.  There has to be some sort of strategic reason for this.

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