Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 17:14     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
Anonymous wrote:lol….smart federal employees. Thats an oxymoron.


Are you 17?

Once again, I’m reminded that our society would benefit from 3 years of some kind of mandatory service to the country/public. You, son, have a lot to learn about how the government works.



Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 17:13     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:PS:

Now your turn, "smart person." What do you do?



Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who thanked you for your service. No need to be demeaning. There are many smart people here doing hard work that isnt broadcast.


My apologies, I thought the comment below was in dismissive tone. Did I misread?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do we not want smart people in federal force? If we do then what are we doing to retain or hire them?


Put up some job specs and we’ll know how bored we’ll be or not.

Also put up the cv of who we’d be reporting too and how they earned their most recent promotions.

-thx,
smart person



Yes, I think some context was lost here. My read was that the poster was saying, given the current environment, let us know the leadership credentials of who we would be supporting in civil service and how they’re qualified to oversee (and value) our work so it isnt done in vain.

We could both be wrong though. Who knows.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 17:10     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
What smart person would want to work for this clown car of an administration?
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 16:54     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
Anonymous wrote:PS:

Now your turn, "smart person." What do you do?



I’m the PP who thanked you for your service. No need to be demeaning. There are many smart people here doing hard work that isnt broadcast.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 16:50     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do we not want smart people in federal force? If we do then what are we doing to retain or hire them?


Put up some job specs and we’ll know how bored we’ll be or not.

Also put up the cv of who we’d be reporting too and how they earned their most recent promotions.

-thx,
smart person


My federal job requires me to resuscitate newborn infants and perform CPR on infants and children when required, decompress a tension pneumothorax (did that a few weeks ago), do spinal taps on newborns and older children, manage pediatric ventilator support, do the standard differential diagnoses for ill children (where we are, plague and hantavirus are always possible), perform various other standard office procedures, and participate in the pharmacopeia approval process for the entire hospital. And other stuff.

I'm a pediatrician. I intubate children a few times a year in clinic. We are very remote, and it is far from boring. You probably wouldn't like it, even if you could do it.

The supervisor who hired me was trained through Harvard with residency at Boson Children's, managed another country's HIV response and integrated a support program for childhood development to mothers with HIV. His CV is extensive.
p

thank you for your service.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 16:36     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
Anonymous wrote:Pfft, my relative who worked as a fed for 20 years got a job in the private sector making twice his government salary. There's no way he'll go back. Had this admin not forced him out, he would have happily retired as a fed. He loved his life in public service and what he did as a scientist.

They don't want smart. They don't want qualified. They don't want capable. They want "mmm, yes, daddy Trump" and that's it.


This. No one who got out is coming back. There salaries are just that far behind in federal government.

My dh planned to retire in 10 years; now we are pushing it back to the bare minimum and he is looking for a new non federal job.

His agency already had trouble hiring Americans with the right credentials because most applicants who spoke English as a first language were offered far higher salaries and better benefits elsewhere.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 15:17     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
And PPS, because someone will ask -- I'm at home on leave post-call, after a 72 hour call shift. This is me just faffing around and chilling.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 15:15     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
PS:

Now your turn, "smart person." What do you do?
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 15:14     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do we not want smart people in federal force? If we do then what are we doing to retain or hire them?


Put up some job specs and we’ll know how bored we’ll be or not.

Also put up the cv of who we’d be reporting too and how they earned their most recent promotions.

-thx,
smart person


My federal job requires me to resuscitate newborn infants and perform CPR on infants and children when required, decompress a tension pneumothorax (did that a few weeks ago), do spinal taps on newborns and older children, manage pediatric ventilator support, do the standard differential diagnoses for ill children (where we are, plague and hantavirus are always possible), perform various other standard office procedures, and participate in the pharmacopeia approval process for the entire hospital. And other stuff.

I'm a pediatrician. I intubate children a few times a year in clinic. We are very remote, and it is far from boring. You probably wouldn't like it, even if you could do it.

The supervisor who hired me was trained through Harvard with residency at Boson Children's, managed another country's HIV response and integrated a support program for childhood development to mothers with HIV. His CV is extensive.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 14:09     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
Pfft, my relative who worked as a fed for 20 years got a job in the private sector making twice his government salary. There's no way he'll go back. Had this admin not forced him out, he would have happily retired as a fed. He loved his life in public service and what he did as a scientist.

They don't want smart. They don't want qualified. They don't want capable. They want "mmm, yes, daddy Trump" and that's it.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 12:51     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:lol….smart federal employees. Thats an oxymoron.


What do you do for a living, BTW?


Probably nothing, Based on his spelling.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 12:25     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
One positive sign: I am seeing some employees allowed ad hoc telework on days they work overtime. It's as if management is finally listening to what they've been told all along: People can get more done when they don't have to spend time stuck in traffic.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 11:58     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
How about attracting some of the rif employees back to the office or hey maybe communicating and treating them as human. Lots of good workers waiting to work.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 11:55     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
Anonymous wrote:lol….smart federal employees. Thats an oxymoron.


What do you do for a living, BTW?
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 11:48     Subject: Keeping and attracting smart federal employees
lol….smart federal employees. Thats an oxymoron.