Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. All hands call with management and union reps in my corner of SSA today. Our acting commissioner found out about this plan when she got her email. Zero advance notice given to agencies, which is unheard of.

They cannot tell us what’s best for our individual situation. But the acting commissioner (currently SES) in an email, plus my component management and the union all strongly advised we “hit pause,” and wait until there is more guidance and information so that we can make the best decision possible given out individually situation. They told us there were many outstanding questions, and they were trying to get answers in time for us to me an informed decision. They reminded us that we had until 2/6, so there was no need to feel forced into a decision this week.

I work for good people though.

uh, the Administration has only been in place a few days and has been rather busy. These are sweeping changes to cut down on waste and bloat. Did your agency head (acting, presumably) expect an engraved notice? Everyone has known this was coming since November

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. All hands call with management and union reps in my corner of SSA today. Our acting commissioner found out about this plan when she got her email. Zero advance notice given to agencies, which is unheard of.

They cannot tell us what’s best for our individual situation. But the acting commissioner (currently SES) in an email, plus my component management and the union all strongly advised we “hit pause,” and wait until there is more guidance and information so that we can make the best decision possible given out individually situation. They told us there were many outstanding questions, and they were trying to get answers in time for us to me an informed decision. They reminded us that we had until 2/6, so there was no need to feel forced into a decision this week.

I work for good people though.

uh, the Administration has only been in place a few days and has been rather busy. These are sweeping changes to cut down on waste and bloat. Did your agency head (acting, presumably) expect an engraved notice? Everyone has known this was coming since November

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. All hands call with management and union reps in my corner of SSA today. Our acting commissioner found out about this plan when she got her email. Zero advance notice given to agencies, which is unheard of.

They cannot tell us what’s best for our individual situation. But the acting commissioner (currently SES) in an email, plus my component management and the union all strongly advised we “hit pause,” and wait until there is more guidance and information so that we can make the best decision possible given out individually situation. They told us there were many outstanding questions, and they were trying to get answers in time for us to me an informed decision. They reminded us that we had until 2/6, so there was no need to feel forced into a decision this week.

I work for good people though.

It is absolutely batshit that OPM could go and undermine agencies' abilities to do their Congressionally-mandated tasks. How the eff can a cabinet member be ok with having this little power? How can Congress be ok with abdicating this power? (I know, I know, they are all spineless cucks.)

It's not even clear the people sending these emails work for OPM or any other government agency! They just have access to an email server that can generate emails from opm.gov. It's totally insane.

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Anonymous wrote:NRC, we had an unscheduled town hall where we were told that the agency is still evaluating and our general counsel is part of the review. They did say that those who take the offer will be placed on Admin leave. A video taped message from the NRC chairman during the townhall stated he also received the FORK email. Keep in mind our chairman was just appointed by Trump a few days ago so it really goes to show no thought went into who received the emails.

Even contractors with government emails got them. Also people in agencies that aren't eligible. There is zero thought or organization to any of this.

Oh for Pete's sake... My guess is this clown show was unaware that contractors have .gov email addresses.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NRC, we had an unscheduled town hall where we were told that the agency is still evaluating and our general counsel is part of the review. They did say that those who take the offer will be placed on Admin leave. A video taped message from the NRC chairman during the townhall stated he also received the FORK email. Keep in mind our chairman was just appointed by Trump a few days ago so it really goes to show no thought went into who received the emails.

Even contractors with government emails got them. Also people in agencies that aren't eligible. There is zero thought or organization to any of this.

Anonymous wrote:NRC, we had an unscheduled town hall where we were told that the agency is still evaluating and our general counsel is part of the review. They did say that those who take the offer will be placed on Admin leave. A video taped message from the NRC chairman during the townhall stated he also received the FORK email. Keep in mind our chairman was just appointed by Trump a few days ago so it really goes to show no thought went into who received the emails.