No furloughs at Justice this year.
I was going to wait an entire 30 days before I posted this, but we got hit. So manners be damned.
No furloughs, but actual layoffs. Story here: http://www.kens5.com/home/Sequester-hits-SAHA-hard-202776941.html
The story focuses more on how our HUD office, which provides Section 8 housing participants assistance, were not directly affected. Rather, this affects the ability of the office to accept new participants into the program. The story ***totally ***glosses over the fact that over 12 people (out of 40) in our office lost their jobs. Guess who was one of them?
Bitter? No, not me. :dubious:
I actually may have to fight to get unemployment benefits, because of the conditions of the “layoffs”. HR worded it totally differently and it’s all in writing. I’m thinking of taking some kind of action, but I think I might need a lawyer’s help. I’m going to wait and see what the unemployment folks say first.
My husband got his notice a while back. Today, he got notice that there won’t be furloughs in the FAA any more, or at least at his workplace. I was only half-listening to him, and the only info that registered in my brain is that he’s not going to have any unpaid days off, unless he asks for them.
Congress seems to be responding to the results of their machete welding sequestration by fixing certain problems one at a time when it happens to inconvenience them or the public gets pissed. Good for the FAA but what about the rest? If they had done a better job with the sequestration, there wouldn’t be so many issues. I wish they would just fix the whole thing instead of doing it piecemeal.
I may or may not be furloughed. I’ll learn if we are probably sometime in May.
Exactly. I’m sure that there’s some stuff in the FAA that can and should be cut, but the cuts were applied in the wrong places, and without justification. And I believe that I’ve already mentioned it in this thread (but I’m not going to check), but my husband’s section is already understaffed, and he regularly has to work overtime. If the furloughs hadn’t been cancelled, he and the other workers would have had to work more overtime, which means that the sequestration wouldn’t have saved any money, and might very well have cost more money.
I work for the FAA and this is exactly what I think. They caved when one thing got crappy, but only for that one thing. They can’t fix the rest of the problems they’ve started.
Hope you don’t get furloughed.
So sorry, UBW. That sucks. Hope things work out for the best.
Well, I got my notice a few weeks ago on June 4th. One day a week for 11 weeks, starting the week of July 8. They’re basically giving everyone Fridays off and keeping the office open with minimal staff (2 people wanted Mondays, so they get to mind the store on Friday).
I work Tuesday to Saturday so I still have to come in on Saturday, but now that it’s happening and I have no choice, I’m kind of looking forward to having an extra day off. Of course I’ll be spending it sitting at home eating instant ramen or whatever else is dirt cheap, but at least I won’t have to get up.
Everyone in my office received notice of decision to furlough letters last week except me. I was the only one to respond to the deciding official when I received a notice of proposed furlough letter. Does anyone know what this means?
Well it depends on what you responded to, I guess. California has had furloughs for at least four years; last year, people were given the option to transfer before finding out whether their department would be affected by layoffs. One friend elected to transfer IF there were layoffs; they transferred her immediately,and didn’t layoff anyone. She was PISSED.
So I hope you didn’t just volunteer for something worse than a extra day off during the summer…
When life hands you a lemon…: Furloughed Pentagon Workers Run For Freedom : NPR
It probably means the deciding official hasn’t had time to go through all the responses. It could also mean that you may be one of those who will be an exception. Hard to tell.
I too received my first letter around the end of May and the decision to furlough letter early last week. I was gone when they came in, so I got mine later.
We had 600 odd exceptions at my organization, but I work at a military hospital and those people are required to keep this hospital going.
Seeing as how I work in an administrative area crunching numbers and productivity, I am not really going to be missed one day a week.
DoD civilian furloughs cut to 6 days from 11.