Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:EPA = up to 13 days, two phases.

Phase 1: April - June, mandatory furlough May 24 plus 3 other days TBD by employee & supervisor

Phase 2: will re-evaluate after phase 1 to get a final number of days needed, up to 9 more; mandatory days alongside July 4 and Labor Day holidays, plus up to 7 more.

So does this mean they will not get paid for the holidays as well?

Anonymous wrote:EPA = up to 13 days, two phases.

Phase 1: April - June, mandatory furlough May 24 plus 3 other days TBD by employee & supervisor

Phase 2: will re-evaluate after phase 1 to get a final number of days needed, up to 9 more; mandatory days alongside July 4 and Labor Day holidays, plus up to 7 more.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Coburn wants to start firing feds who are 'not productive'. He thinks this will prevent furloughs.... I'm speechless!

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/204/3267672/Sen-wants-feds-paid-to-do-nothing-fired

What's the problem? I wish they would fire the deadbeats. That's what they'd do in te private sector.

I'm a Fed and I wish it would happen, too, but it never will. I'd love to know how they plan to identify which workers are "doing nothing". It's not like we work in a factory assembling widgets and can just look to see who has produced the least . . .

I'm also a Fed and think this should happen. Our agency had one guy who would just not show up whenever he felt like it and never once completed any assignment than anyone knew about. Anytime a manager would say something, he would start screaming about discrimination. The managers knew they'd have to spend an inordinate amount of time defending themselves, so they just let it go. This went on for the first seven years I worked here before a new manager came in and fired him. We still have deadweights, but at least they show up and pretend to work.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Coburn wants to start firing feds who are 'not productive'. He thinks this will prevent furloughs.... I'm speechless!

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/204/3267672/Sen-wants-feds-paid-to-do-nothing-fired

What's the problem? I wish they would fire the deadbeats. That's what they'd do in te private sector.

I'm a Fed and I wish it would happen, too, but it never will. I'd love to know how they plan to identify which workers are "doing nothing". It's not like we work in a factory assembling widgets and can just look to see who has produced the least . . .

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Coburn wants to start firing feds who are 'not productive'. He thinks this will prevent furloughs.... I'm speechless!

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/204/3267672/Sen-wants-feds-paid-to-do-nothing-fired

What's the problem? I wish they would fire the deadbeats. That's what they'd do in te private sector.

I'm a Fed and I wish it would happen, too, but it never will. I'd love to know how they plan to identify which workers are "doing nothing". It's not like we work in a factory assembling widgets and can just look to see who has produced the least . . .

It was pretty obvious/ well known in my former agency. Firing is just too hard.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Coburn wants to start firing feds who are 'not productive'. He thinks this will prevent furloughs.... I'm speechless!

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/204/3267672/Sen-wants-feds-paid-to-do-nothing-fired

What's the problem? I wish they would fire the deadbeats. That's what they'd do in te private sector.

I'm a Fed and I wish it would happen, too, but it never will. I'd love to know how they plan to identify which workers are "doing nothing". It's not like we work in a factory assembling widgets and can just look to see who has produced the least . . .

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Coburn wants to start firing feds who are 'not productive'. He thinks this will prevent furloughs.... I'm speechless!

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/204/3267672/Sen-wants-feds-paid-to-do-nothing-fired

What's the problem? I wish they would fire the deadbeats. That's what they'd do in te private sector.

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Coburn wants to start firing feds who are 'not productive'. He thinks this will prevent furloughs.... I'm speechless!

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/204/3267672/Sen-wants-feds-paid-to-do-nothing-fired

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HUD is the only agency that has formulated a sensible plan. TOTALLY shut down for 7 days, everyone included.

I agree. I wish all the agencies would do this.

Ok, but it's a Federal Agency that runs DC's probation, parole and pretrial services. Comfortable with those guys taking a week off? Me, not so much...

HUD isn't closing for 7 consecutive days. They're spreading them around.