Anonymous wrote:Curious if most recent 3 performance ratings from previous agency will be considered.

I want to know this too.

Sorry I meant 4 most recent ratings

Curious if most recent 3 performance ratings from previous agency will be considered.

Anonymous wrote:No one goes on a RIF list under this administration. You are either in the list to get a notice of RIF or not. None of that retention and ranking stuff is going on.

This is incorrect. Read the ARRP memo online from Vought at OPM. They are using the RIF process.

No one goes on a RIF list under this administration. You are either in the list to get a notice of RIF or not. None of that retention and ranking stuff is going on.

Yes, also part-time and not sure how that affects me in RIF.

As a part-time employee, I’m even more uncertain of where I stand on a RIF list.

Anonymous wrote:the ranking is like:
1. type of appointment
2. veteran's preference
3. length of service
4. performance ratings

There's a specific calculation of how #3 and #4 work together to create the priority list somewhere online. I saw it but don't recall where (on a govt website). It doesn't matter much, though, since you don't actually know your peers' performance ratings.

Essentially, all veterans (regardless of length of service) are more prioritized than all non veterans. And then there is a prioritization within each category based on disability status (for veterans), length of service and ratings.

There are good videos on youtube that go into this in detail. They were just posted in the last month and there are several to choose from.

The biggest question that no one has the answer to yet is what is the "competitive area." That is, are they imposing a retention level across a full agency, or within your small office, or something in between. The answer to this is almost determinative of whether you'll be retained. (It's possible that some offices will be zeroed out and others not touched at all. Until we know that, no one really knows their likelihood of RIF.

No way to tell because your agency will define competitive areas and then these rankings have to happen within the competitive area. So how narrowly they define those can have an outsized impact in specific employees who may have otherwise survived a rif if a larger competitive area had been defined.

Do they use ratings from a prior agency? My current agency is pass-fail but my prior ratings were 4/5.

Anonymous wrote:What if ratings are just pass/fail? That's what I've had as a lawyer my whole career.

Unless you are the only one with p/f, it doesn’t matter

What if ratings are just pass/fail? That's what I've had as a lawyer my whole career.

Short answer is no

the ranking is like:
1. type of appointment
2. veteran's preference
3. length of service
4. performance ratings

Other than asking my supervisor, is there a back of paper way I can figure out where I am on a potential RIF list? Just trying to assess the likelihood I would be RIF’d if DOGE institutes a 50% cut government wide, for example.