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Unfortunately, I’m not surprised at all. So, with that in mind…definitely not going the extra mile for my agency, my management team or the public. Just looking out for me, myself and I — like Trump — and riding it out till VERA or 57 whichever comes first.

As anticipated, Trump has signed a memo directing all DHS employees be compensated with other monies.

Edit: Based on what seemed to happen at TSA, this means furloughed workers will likely receive a recall notice shortly stating they are now Exempt and required to report their next scheduled workday.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tsa/s/jQMiv8pYSe

Why has Congress abdicated their duties concerning the presidency? It is overwhelming how many issues have spun seemingly out of control. Everything I read, see or hear in the news is bad. Not going well. I have put my congressman on notice we will not forget their complicity (hands off?) with the current administration.

Folks, we are in a very bad place right now.

[Just venting]

I’m excepted in mission support role and im having to go to work still during this partial shutdown. It’s really getting to me now. I can make strictly rent for another 2 months or so and it requires cutting back on food and A LOT of stuff. But after that, idk how we will make it. My partner is currently between jobs so I’m the sole breadwinner. My savings keep getting wiped out with these fucking shutdowns.

And still all of us excepted non-LEOs are still expected to do things as if we’re not indentured servants.

I’ve been looking in the private sector but it’s a nightmare there too. And the shitty thing is that I don’t think most people realize that DHS isn’t just ICE and CBP, and that CBP isn’t just the BP part… so I guess people are totally happy continuing this standoff while the rest of us non-LEOs suffer needlessly.

Fuck this timeline. Fuck Trump. Fuck Russel Cuckface Voight. Fuck all the people who voted for this and those who didn’t take action and let it happen anyway.

Too bad it’s illegal for us to strike… or accept bribes… oh wait

I have to work as an excepted employee for no pay on Easter. Congress failed us and they as well as the administration owe us greatly.

Let me start by saying that I'm just venting and am not going to file any type of complaint or anything like that. We get the time off and that's nice and I don't want to ruin it for everyone else.

That being said, it's bullshit. I don't hate that we're getting a 3 hr early release. I hate WHY we are getting it. It's another Christian Nationalist move, prioritizing one religion over others. We didn't get time for Eid. We don't get time for Diwali. We don't get time for any Jewish holidays. If Easter were a federal holiday like Christmas, sure, but it isn't.

Edit: for everyone saying this is 100% fine, I look forward to seeing you loudly advocate for this same treatment for every other religion.

Vent.

I’m not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth or be ungrateful for “found” money. I am grateful.

But my dad, himself a career civil servant his whole life (in local government), and my mother, a bank teller and then elementary school teacher, scrimped and saved and put away every penny they could. I remember my dad researching stock tickers in the newspaper (remember when they printed those?). We lived on the bare minimum my entire childhood. Through their frugality and his independent investing, built a pretty decent nest egg for themselves.

My dad died suddenly a few years ago in his mid-70’s, having not been able to really enjoy much of the fruits of his labors.

My mom inherited all of it but was already was starting down the path of dementia and no matter what I told her, she believed she was broke, as well as having had a lifetime of frugality to condition her against treating herself. So she spent as little as she could until I took over as her POA and put her in a beautiful assisted living / memory care facility (that she had previously refused because she was “broke”).

My mom died earlier this week, and as I am their only child, I inherited everything. I am grateful to them for foregoing so much for me. I am also beyond sad that neither ever got to or were willing to splurge on themselves.

because of my agency’s ethics rules, I now have one month to divest the majority of the holdings — in this horrid market. I will be VERY limited in what I can buy/hold/sell, with long holding periods for whatever remains or replaces the holdings.

It is INCREDIBLY galling to me that I have to go through this while the president and his cronies, as well as Congress, can do whatever the hell they want. But as a nameless, faceless slug, the rules apply to me. I’m going to be forced to piss away a lot of my parents’ hard work in losses (thanks largely to this war), while the powers that be brazenly and proudly act with impunity and enrich themselves.

It’s a big club and I ain’t in it.

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any thoughts on if and when this will happen?

I’m currently on FMLA and thinking about resigning, but I’m not sure how that works. I have been using my sick leave during FMLA. I know in the private sector they often make your resignation effective immediately after resigning if you’re on FMLA. I’m worried they may not let me finish out the pay period with my sick leave once I formally resign. I want to be respectful and give plenty of notice, but I’m worried I may not have a choice. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Any department of the Army civilians? How's the rebalancing of the work force working out for you. Our command has taken an axe to the organization. No consideration for years of service or time in grade. They are making retention and placement decisions by job series alone. Alot if good employee's are getting screwed. It's being handled so bad I'm considering a VA job one pay grade lower and a short commute away.

There's gotta be more DAC's going through it. 16,000 employee's army wide affected and no posts?

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