I hate my job!

[Zanshin]

I do, actually, hate my job. For the second time in three years, powers-that-be eliminated every position on my team and then told everyone they can re-interview for the fewer jobs they decided they want/need. It's like obnoxious musical chairs, survivor-style. Should really ramp up teamwork and productivity, I'm sure.

[Diomedes]

That's corporate life for you. 

If only those union elitists weren't farging things up for everyone.

[phillycrew]

Anyone do a Government background check recently? I had one done when I was in the Navy but that was '98. I have nothing to hide but have some minor questions.

I had to recertify last year.  Go ahead and PM any question.  I've come to be numb to my job, it just sucks that we haven't seen a pay raise in three years.  I have to hope my boss retires at some point so I can get ahead.

[SD]

Anyone do a Government background check recently? I had one done when I was in the Navy but that was '98. I have nothing to hide but have some minor questions.

I had to recertify last year.  Go ahead and PM any question.  I've come to be numb to my job, it just sucks that we haven't seen a pay raise in three years.  I have to hope my boss retires at some point so I can get ahead.

Check your pms and thanks.

[ice grillin you]

Federal employees' job security is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired, a USA Today analysis finds.

Death — rather than poor performance, misconduct or layoffs — is the primary threat to job security at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Management and Budget and a dozen other federal operations.

The federal government fired 0.55 percent of its workers in the budget year that ended Sept. 30 — 11,668 employees in its 2.1 million workforce. Research shows that the private sector fires about 3 percent of workers annually for poor performance, says John Palguta, former research chief at the federal Merit Systems Protection Board, which handles federal firing disputes.

The 1,800-employee Federal Communications Commission and the 1,200-employee Federal Trade Commission didn't lay off or fire a single employee last year. The SBA had no layoffs, six firings and 17 deaths in its 4,000-employee workforce.

When job security is at a premium, the federal government remains the place to work for those who want to avoid losing a job. The job security rate for all federal workers was 99.43 percent last year and nearly 100 percent for those on the job more than a few years.

HUD spokesman Jerry Brown says his department's low dismissal rate — providing a 99.85 percent job security rate for employees — shows a skilled and committed workforce. "We've never focused on firing people, and we don't intend to start now. We're more focused on hiring the right people," he says.

San Francisco State University management professor John Sullivan, an expert on employee turnover, says the low departure rates show a failure to release poor performers and those with obsolete skills. "Rather than indicating something positive, rates below 1 percent in the firing and layoff components would indicate a serious management problem," he says.

The government laid off 385 people in reorganizations last year — a 0.02 percent rate, or one in every 6,000 employees. No comparable private sector layoff rate is available.

USA Today analyzed the Office of Personnel Management's database to examine job security in the federal workforce. Firings are for all reasons, including poor performance, stealing and sexual harassment. The Postal Service and uniformed military personnel are not included in the data. Departures from seasonal jobs, such as Census taker, are not counted.

"The notion that you can't fire federal workers is a myth because we do it. But it doesn't happen frequently," says Palguta, vice president of the Partnership for Public Service, which advocates for a high-quality government workforce.

Palguta says some federal workers quit before they are fired, so the data underestimate how many poor performers are weeded out. Efforts to streamline the government cause few layoffs because federal law gives preference to certain workers, such as military veterans, making it hard to match protected workers with the skills needed, he says.

USA Today found that nearly 60 percent of firings occur in the first two years of employment, mostly workers on probation and outside the federal job protection system. Blue-collar workers are twice as likely to be fired as white-collar employees. The federal government's 12,700 food preparation workers had the highest rate of getting fired last year — 2.5 percent.

White-collar federal workers have almost total job security after a few years on the job. Last year, the government fired none of its 3,000 meteorologists, 2,500 health insurance administrators, 1,000 optometrists, 800 historians or 500 industrial property managers.

The nearly half-million federal employees earning $100,000 or more enjoyed a 99.82 percent job security rate in 2010. Only 27 of 35,000 federal attorneys were fired last year. None was laid off. Death claimed 33.

Other findings:

• Secure location: The 168,000 federal workers in Washington had the safest jobs — 99.74 percent job security in 2010. Least secure: Indiana — 98.35 percent.

• Salary: Two-thirds of those fired or laid off earned less than $50,000 a year.

• Total turnover: NASA, the space agency, had the government's lowest total turnover rate in 2010 — just 4 percent of its 18,700 employees quit, died, retired or were dismissed.

[Seabiscuit36]

I was going to post this.  Time for shakeups.  First thing I'd do is take away IGY's every other monday off.

[ice grillin you]

id be one of those people who quit and sway the numbers if that happened

[Diomedes]

one of the principal complaints Republicans make to the press with the new consumer protection bureau is that it's just another big government agency and a bunch of new bureaucrats getting jobs for life.

so what do they demand?  installing a board of directors rather than an individual director.

more headcount & bosses will:

a.) be more efficient
b.) be less wasteful
c.) reduce bureaucracy
d.) cost less
e.) all of the above

if you are a republican, you choose E

[ice grillin you]

im at work today acting as an escort for some contractors that are doing work in the building and im about lose it...been in a 15 story office building with no one in it posting on this board since 6am

[General_Failure]

How many people in there normally post here?

[Tomahawk]

If you're a shade shy of hammered, do you answer work e-mails from the homebase when an astute person might realize you're responding  at 2 in the AM?

[Diomedes]

I vote yes.

farg work.

[Tomahawk]

Done...internet advice is worth its weight in gold. I also agree I should drink the 2 Tsing Taos and 2 Heinikens in the fridge

[Sgt PSN]

My orders to San Diego got canceled yesterday.....as I was loading a Uhaul truck. 

My reenlistment also got denied thanks to a new policy that came out a couple of weeks ago stating that any Staff Sergeant (me) who has been passed for promotion to the next rank (Gunnery Sgt) is not guaranteed reenlistment.   So instead, they canceled my orders and extended my contract until April, which will allow me to be looked at for promotion in January.  If I get promoted, then I reenlist with no problems.  If I don't get promoted (and I doubt I will) then people much higher rank than me will have to make the determination as to whether or not I can continue service. 

The writing is on the wall....I'm 4 years away from retirement and the Marine Corps has been cutting their manpower like crazy over the last year.  So I guess April is the end of my time. 

Best part though is that since they waited so long to tell me all of this, I had already given notice to my landlady that I'd be out by Oct 1 and she has already found a renter to move into my place.  Luckily for me, she owns a house down the street that I can move into (it was offered to the tenant scheduled to take my place but she didn't want it.)  So now I get to move all of my shtein a whopping 75yds to the new house, which isn't quite ready for a tenant yet as it still needs to be cleaned and touch up work done from the previous tenant but I guess I just gotta role with the punches on this one. 

So yeah, really had the rug pulled out from under me in the last 24 hours.  Farg everything.  Except the Phils. 

[Rome]

Middle management sucks no matter where you work.

Sorry Sassy.