Anonymous wrote:Why would any competent person take a job with the federal government knowing they will be paid under market and subject to being fired if some political flunky doesn't like the way they look?

Great question.

Why would any competent person take a job with the federal government knowing they will be paid under market and subject to being fired if some political flunky doesn't like the way they look?

Anonymous wrote:the first step is to get rid of the genx/boomers they are the problem holding down everyone else

And Milenials, They are too busy making Craft beer, eating Avocado toast, sipping starbucks and playing video games to get work done

I do not think anyone benefits by treating the federal workforce as a monolith. All the things can be true. (Disclosure: I am a former Fed.)

Are there federal employees with unique and exceptional skills and areas of expertise who work hard and have incredible value to the government? Yes.

Are there federal employees who are grifters and doing next to nothing and taking up space and a paycheck? Yes.

Is the federal government allowed to operate in an insane and unhealthy environment where they have no obligation to live within their means, unlike state and local governments? Yes. Does this lead to bloat and dysfunction? Yes.

Have federally employees historically been a very difficult group of employees to hold accountable or trim down? Yes.

Trump took a hammer to it and destroyed everything in an inhumane and boorish fashion. He did not follow rules or norms or even basic common sense. Who knows what it will look like in 10 years after this. No one knows. It will probably be different.

Sure. CBAs trashed and ignored at will. Job protections stripped via executive order and rulemaking. Zero telework. 1 percent raises. 5 bullets every Friday. RIFs.

Only a moron would apply, regardless of administration.

the first step is to get rid of the genx/boomers they are the problem holding down everyone else

Anonymous wrote:I took the DRP and now earn 10x what I earned in gov. When the disparity is that big, going to gov makes no sense.

Why didn't you jump sonner, then? You don't sound very smart.

Anonymous wrote:I took the DRP and now earn 10x what I earned in gov. When the disparity is that big, going to gov makes no sense.

That is exceptionally unusual and cannot be replicated on a large scale, and is not applicable to most people’s situations.

I took the DRP and now earn 10x what I earned in gov. When the disparity is that big, going to gov makes no sense.

Hahahaha. I am a science Ph.D. with a degree from a top school. I took my fed job because of the flexibility but also a deep belief in the mission. I still believe in our mission but have been deeply disillusioned about how little the public cares about science and struggle every day to keep trying to make a difference in the face of a growing number of people who think Tik Tok is a good place to get medical advice and their doctors are “uninformed”. I think there’s basically no chance I would take this job now, nor I expect many other w

Anonymous wrote:My office is hemorrhaging every smart, skilled employee.

My spouse is an engineering PhD who does military R&D and boy, the state of things is poor. Trump has managed to hamstring defense R&D. We're going to be behind China technologically.

Anonymous wrote:A recent Computer Engineering grad from CMU will make 57K per year as a GS-7 in the government, but he will make at least 150K per year in the private sector. He/she will probably make 130K in the government after five years, but 400K in the private sector. Unless he has family money, why would he/she want to work for the federal government? At the 130K salary, he is invisible to women in the DMV.

Maybe 2 years ago. Not now.

Anonymous wrote:Federal employees may hate President Trump now, but many years from now, Americans will regard President Trump as the father of the modern day civil service.

Thank you for the chuckle today!

Anonymous wrote:It was a combination of outright grifters and people who were so uncurious about everything that had happened before that they thought they could just show up and fix stuff.

Classic tech bro arrogance.

Europe is full of boring old fashioned banks run by older people on legacy systems. Similar to a lot of Fed Agencies.

The European Fintech challenger banks like Wise, Monzo and Revokut full of young people where nearly all employees under 30 are blowing up banking in Europe for the better.

They don’t care what boomers and Gen X did.

I think in the 2030 the Feds will be jumped 50 years into future in a single decade. .