Anonymous wrote:It's interesting to see the families that live large on by sucking the Fed's titties in normal times squirming now (like the rest of the US has been for the past ~5 years).

Not good, not bad, not schadenfreunde, just ... interesting.

Thinking of all the NoVa families with one spouse civilian DoD and the other spouse a "defense contractor." When the rest of America was pasting their bumpers back on their rickety cars back in 2009, what about you?

Fuck You. I'm op and guess what? they forgot about part of my duties which keep your ass safe that still need to be done. Now it's against the law for me to come to work on those days.

DH and I are both feds. Both GS-5s if you care to know, so we aren't living the high life. He's in IRS, and they made their plans known today about starting after tax season.

My agency stated today in all-hands meeting and through e-mail that we will be furloughed (if nothing is settled) up to 7 days starting in May through September and they are trying to schedule furloughs to fall around holiday weekends. It was also made known that we will have non-consecutive furlough pay periods. A downside: furlough pay periods will require us to lose all AWS/CWS, but we will be back on AWS/CWS on a non-furlough pay period. In a sense, my work schedule is going to be fluctuating a lot if it happens.

Anonymous wrote:NP here, I'm a fed. about 2-3 weeks ago, the entire div. got an e-mail from the div. director stating that no one in our div. will be furloughed. Purchases and travels will be cut back.

It is good news for the staffs (incl. contractors). However, at the same time, all the staffs in the div. will not be able to perform 100% due to the research equipment/material and travel cut back.

Where do you work?

NP here, I'm a fed. about 2-3 weeks ago, the entire div. got an e-mail from the div. director stating that no one in our div. will be furloughed. Purchases and travels will be cut back.

It is good news for the staffs (incl. contractors). However, at the same time, all the staffs in the div. will not be able to perform 100% due to the research equipment/material and travel cut back.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting to see the families that live large on by sucking the Fed's titties in normal times squirming now (like the rest of the US has been for the past ~5 years).

Not good, not bad, not schadenfreunde, just ... interesting.

Thinking of all the NoVa families with one spouse civilian DoD and the other spouse a "defense contractor." When the rest of America was pasting their bumpers back on their rickety cars back in 2009, what about you?

Asshole. I don't know one fed who was delighting in the layoffs of their private sector friends and families. Asshole.

Not PP but tired of federal employees being pawns in the political chess game of shutdowns and deficit fights. And I really don't see fed employees as being overpaid. My husband takes a paycut being a fed and I did too.

I think a lot more cuts are coming.

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting to see the families that live large on by sucking the Fed's titties in normal times squirming now (like the rest of the US has been for the past ~5 years).

Not good, not bad, not schadenfreunde, just ... interesting.

Thinking of all the NoVa families with one spouse civilian DoD and the other spouse a "defense contractor." When the rest of America was pasting their bumpers back on their rickety cars back in 2009, what about you?

Asshole. I don't know one fed who was delighting in the layoffs of their private sector friends and families. Asshole.

OP, sorry for what you're going through! We were afraid this would happen to my spouse as well. Fortunately, my spouse's office got this notice today, instead, which is still bad, but still better than what you're facing.

At this point, we expect that every one of us would take no more than one furlough day per pay period, beginning sometime in the summer [...], and possibly through the remainder of the fiscal year, for a total of between five to seven furlough days. We will provide you with at least 30 days’ notice prior to starting furlough.

It's interesting to see the families that live large on by sucking the Fed's titties in normal times squirming now (like the rest of the US has been for the past ~5 years).

Not good, not bad, not schadenfreunde, just ... interesting.

Thinking of all the NoVa families with one spouse civilian DoD and the other spouse a "defense contractor." When the rest of America was pasting their bumpers back on their rickety cars back in 2009, what about you?

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Anonymous wrote:We'd be happy with a furlough. We just got the letter that my husband will be terminate as well as everyone on his contract in less they get funded. 14 days off is better than months, if not longer.

I don't care whose fault this is, just fix it.

Then offer to take 14 days off with out pay and see if you can keep the contract.

Right, like even if the entire contract staff agreed to this, this will make so much difference to the agency that funds them. NOT. If the contract is defunded, that will be because it is the best way to save a significant amount of the 10% that agency will need to make the sequestration cuts work for them. There will be a penalty for defunding an existing contract including an early termination clause of payment to the contractor, which may be used, in part, to provide severance to those staff members who are entitled to severance (not all contractor staff will get severances). There will also be a lot of governmental overhead to early termination of a contract. It will probably cost the government a lot more than the overhead for staff taking 14 days unpaid to terminate the contract. If so, they are looking at the long range effect of terminating that contract against whatever else might have to be cut in order to save the 10%.

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Anonymous wrote:We'd be happy with a furlough. We just got the letter that my husband will be terminate as well as everyone on his contract in less they get funded. 14 days off is better than months, if not longer.

I don't care whose fault this is, just fix it.

Then offer to take 14 days off with out pay and see if you can keep the contract.

I think this poster said 14 days because she was reacting to a PP who just got notice of 14 furlough days, not because her husband was being given the option of taking 14 days furlough.

OP, just curious. Did your letter say "IF" sequestration happens, or is it a straight up furlough... I.e. did it leave an "out" just in case they figure this out? (Not that I hold out much hope at this point).

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. DH and I are both dreading this. DH is a fed, I am a defense contractor. Fun times ahead. Sorry, OP.

Same setup here. UGH.

Anonymous wrote:We'd be happy with a furlough. We just got the letter that my husband will be terminate as well as everyone on his contract in less they get funded. 14 days off is better than months, if not longer.

I don't care whose fault this is, just fix it.

Then offer to take 14 days off with out pay and see if you can keep the contract.

Ugh. DH and I are both dreading this. DH is a fed, I am a defense contractor. Fun times ahead. Sorry, OP.