Don’t feed the troll. That’s all this is at this point with this poster.
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This is an absolute back handed insult to a lot of hard working government employees. I worked with quite a few for years… range operators, maintenance, engineers etc. Lots former vets doing the a similar job to what they had in the service.
Hear! Hear!
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with a day to go. its looks to be about 2%.
far cry from the 10% pipedream.
Allan
Just curious…
I wonder how many of that 2% were going to retire soon anyway. Now they just get to retire early, keep 8 months of pay, keep 8 months of benefits, keep 8 months of building years of service*** toward increasing their retirement pay, and get to start fishing early?
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*** Remember this isn’t an early termination program, it’s a “Deferred Resignation Program”, meaning their termination date is still 09/30/2025, they just don’t have to come to work.
in 2022. 70,000 employees retired.
Recent trends in quits and retirements in the federal workforce(fiscal,and%2077%2C000%20quitting%20their%20position.
Allan
That’s assuming the offer is valid, legal and funded in the next budget deal in late March - None of which is probably true. Which probably explains why, according to Fox News, only 20,000 people (1%) have accepted so far.
I’ve had two occasions to work for the government. In both cases, I wasted no time in getting the hell out.
Fresh out of high school, I landed an apprenticeship as an electrician working on submarines. I worked for the federal government. I lasted about a year before quitting to go to college. Even at that young age, I could see the tremendous amount of waste and inefficiency.
You would have thought I would have learned my lesson after being in the Air Force for 10 years. Initially, I learned a new skill. But I quickly discovered that the needs of the Air Force prevented me from using my new skills in a manner that advanced my career.
I couldn’t wait to get out and put those skills to good use in the private sector. With my first job out of the Air Force, I landed good job, only to have it relocated to a different state. I panicked and picked the first replacement job I interviewed for. It was a government job for a school district.
Within a couple of days, I realized that was a big mistake. At the time I was on fire with enthusiasm and ideas. That was exactly what they didn’t want. They wanted no part of me. Within the first week I started looking for another job. After a couple of months, I was able to land a dream job where I was able to thrive.
Oh, ye of little faith! Let’s wait until the 6th comes and goes.
Cool story. I got out of the government world too years ago. That doesn’t mean most have low productivity jobs.
I’m sure there are exceptions, but over the years, I’ve had occasion to interface with government workers in my profession. To say that I was unimpressed would be putting it mildly.
I’ve found that in the private sector, innovation is the key to success. Someone who thrives on being able to innovate would suffocate in an environment where innovation is actually frowned on.
There is no incentive or motivation for innovation in the Government sector. They don’t produce anything. For the most part, it is about maintaining the status quo. Not rocking the boat.
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I have too. I have ran into people in the private sector who I am unimpressed with.
That doesn’t mean ALL government workers are in “low productivity” jobs. There are engineers, doctors, nurses, mechanics etc in the federal government. Lots of former vets doing the same or similar job as they had in the service.
I never meant to imply that there are no professionals in Government.
But let’s take a software engineer. That is my profession.
I was employed in that profession for 50 years before retiring. In the private sector, I was able to flex my muscles and engineer some really creative solutions for the financial institutions where I was employed.
Yes, the government sector does employ software engineers. But they are basically caretakers for software systems that were developed by private firms for use by the government.
that is tomorrow.
Allan
Yep!!!
from 1% to 10%
highly unlikely and (of course) i am right again.
Allan
Estimates ranged as high as 10%. As to being right, it’s not all its cut out to be. My track record for predictions is 0. I have yet to get anything right, so I didn’t really expect to get this one right either.
In any case, it isn’t over until it is over. 
Per Forbes 65k accepted the offer. Will probably go up a bit from there as deadline got extended to Monday. In the end the annual number leaving the federal government on this deferred retirement date of Sept 2025 won’t be much different than the annual 70K retirement cycle.
Which is just under 3%.
The key now is for those positions not to be filled with new hires.
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