Anonymous wrote:Are in the Office of Management at the OCC? (a.k.a. administration) or is your position "administrative assistant" in another division?

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Anonymous wrote:Retirement plan at Fed is separate from the rest of government. Everyone - regardless if a receptionist or Chair Yellen - pays into the same plan.

Thrift plan is 1% for free + 7% match, fully vests after 5 years. Defined benefit pension is fully vested at 5 years of service. If you leave before then, you can take a Portable Cash Option. You can go to any of the other Reserve Banks around the country and it all counts toward your 5 years.

The assistants all come in early and are out the door immediately after their 8 hours. Very flexible schedule, if you're a shared PA for a group. If you're the PA to one of the big-wigs, my guess is that they dictate your schedule. All of assistants are on AWS, none that I know telecommute.

And they are ALWAYS in some sort of multi-day training whenever I need an assistant to help me with stuff. Seems like a pretty chill gig, IMHO.

That said, no Jesus quote or Bible verses allowed in your email signature. Someone was putting religious materials in the bathrooms and there was a big kerfuffle about it.

Then it looks worse than OCC's. OCC gives 5% free and match another 5% vesting immediately I believe. They also FERS pension as well as free dental and vision insurance for the whole family.

Good to know thanks for the insight.
It could be worse - we could be on the GS scale and beholden to the nihilists in Congress.
Ewww, gross.

Our FRB admins are never around and rarely seem to do much work, with the exception of the division director's assistant. Also yes to the Jesus thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Retirement plan at Fed is separate from the rest of government. Everyone - regardless if a receptionist or Chair Yellen - pays into the same plan.

Thrift plan is 1% for free + 7% match, fully vests after 5 years. Defined benefit pension is fully vested at 5 years of service. If you leave before then, you can take a Portable Cash Option. You can go to any of the other Reserve Banks around the country and it all counts toward your 5 years.

The assistants all come in early and are out the door immediately after their 8 hours. Very flexible schedule, if you're a shared PA for a group. If you're the PA to one of the big-wigs, my guess is that they dictate your schedule. All of assistants are on AWS, none that I know telecommute.

And they are ALWAYS in some sort of multi-day training whenever I need an assistant to help me with stuff. Seems like a pretty chill gig, IMHO.

That said, no Jesus quote or Bible verses allowed in your email signature. Someone was putting religious materials in the bathrooms and there was a big kerfuffle about it.

Then it looks worse than OCC's. OCC gives 5% free and match another 5% vesting immediately I believe. They also FERS pension as well as free dental and vision insurance for the whole family.

Good to know thanks for the insight.
It could be worse - we could be on the GS scale and beholden to the nihilists in Congress.
Ewww, gross.

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Anonymous wrote:Retirement plan at Fed is separate from the rest of government. Everyone - regardless if a receptionist or Chair Yellen - pays into the same plan.

Thrift plan is 1% for free + 7% match, fully vests after 5 years. Defined benefit pension is fully vested at 5 years of service. If you leave before then, you can take a Portable Cash Option. You can go to any of the other Reserve Banks around the country and it all counts toward your 5 years.

The assistants all come in early and are out the door immediately after their 8 hours. Very flexible schedule, if you're a shared PA for a group. If you're the PA to one of the big-wigs, my guess is that they dictate your schedule. All of assistants are on AWS, none that I know telecommute.

And they are ALWAYS in some sort of multi-day training whenever I need an assistant to help me with stuff. Seems like a pretty chill gig, IMHO.

That said, no Jesus quote or Bible verses allowed in your email signature. Someone was putting religious materials in the bathrooms and there was a big kerfuffle about it.

Then it looks worse than OCC's. OCC gives 5% free and match another 5% vesting immediately I believe. They also FERS pension as well as free dental and vision insurance for the whole family.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Retirement plan at Fed is separate from the rest of government. Everyone - regardless if a receptionist or Chair Yellen - pays into the same plan.

Thrift plan is 1% for free + 7% match, fully vests after 5 years. Defined benefit pension is fully vested at 5 years of service. If you leave before then, you can take a Portable Cash Option. You can go to any of the other Reserve Banks around the country and it all counts toward your 5 years.

The assistants all come in early and are out the door immediately after their 8 hours. Very flexible schedule, if you're a shared PA for a group. If you're the PA to one of the big-wigs, my guess is that they dictate your schedule. All of assistants are on AWS, none that I know telecommute.

And they are ALWAYS in some sort of multi-day training whenever I need an assistant to help me with stuff. Seems like a pretty chill gig, IMHO.

That said, no Jesus quote or Bible verses allowed in your email signature. Someone was putting religious materials in the bathrooms and there was a big kerfuffle about it.

Then it looks worse than OCC's. OCC gives 5% free and match another 5% vesting immediately I believe. They also FERS pension as well as free dental and vision insurance for the whole family.

Anonymous wrote:Retirement plan at Fed is separate from the rest of government. Everyone - regardless if a receptionist or Chair Yellen - pays into the same plan.

Thrift plan is 1% for free + 7% match, fully vests after 5 years. Defined benefit pension is fully vested at 5 years of service. If you leave before then, you can take a Portable Cash Option. You can go to any of the other Reserve Banks around the country and it all counts toward your 5 years.

The assistants all come in early and are out the door immediately after their 8 hours. Very flexible schedule, if you're a shared PA for a group. If you're the PA to one of the big-wigs, my guess is that they dictate your schedule. All of assistants are on AWS, none that I know telecommute.

And they are ALWAYS in some sort of multi-day training whenever I need an assistant to help me with stuff. Seems like a pretty chill gig, IMHO.

That said, no Jesus quote or Bible verses allowed in your email signature. Someone was putting religious materials in the bathrooms and there was a big kerfuffle about it.

Anonymous wrote:Run from the OCC. Run as fast you can. Run from any Lean Six Sigma work and the other B.S. they torment you with over there.. Oppressive, abusive, dysfunctional work environment.

Anonymous wrote:it obviously depends on the type of position. is it lawyer, economist or administrative assistant?