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Even with everything here being 11s and up its difficult to get people to come to the frozen north of Wisconsin. Fincantieri and Lockheed probably have it worse.
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Devor posted:My understanding of the non-Schedule A disability question is for monitoring and reporting purposes. They have to ask to be able to answer the question, "Are our hiring managers refusing to hire disabled people during the interview?". So I wanted to thank everybody, more than I can say, for all the information they gave about Schedule A, especially this post right here. I'm not going to get too into it, but I was basically raised to believe that it would be better if nobody knew I was on the Autism spectrum and that people would find a way to treat me badly if they knew. (And yes, as it applied to Federal hiring too!) I actually never even self-identified on the SF-256 because I genuinely believed it would hurt my career. It helps so much to hear people who are in the same boat tell me otherwise. I'm going to take the plunge and start looking more into this!
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PneumonicBook posted:Even with everything here being 11s and up its difficult to get people to come to the frozen north of Wisconsin. Fincantieri and Lockheed probably have it worse.
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Star Man posted:How many GS 13 and 14 jobs exist only because no one would do that work for less money? Exempt jobs, as opposed to competitive service, are overrepresented in 13 and 14, likely for this reason. I'm a lawyer, and the lowest band I've ever seen for a JD-required position is 11, and that's for a straight out of law school, not barred yet clerk. Most non-managerial legal jobs are 13-15. E.g. I left a position as JSP 14-1 once and got offered, though didn't take, a posting at GS 13-4 while there.
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Mar 25, 2023 09:28
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Excepted, not exempt.
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We have a bit of a glut, where regular grunts are 5-12, supervisors are 13s, their bosses are 14s, and a whole crapload of 15 managers and hangers on. Then my office director and deputy are SES.
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Midjack posted:Excepted, not exempt.
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Where I'm at, 13s are mostly supervisors now, there are a few specialty non-supervisory roles, but those are probably getting phased out as people retire. The two coworkers who do the same tasks I do are 13s who were brought in to replace three 12s who weren't doing the work, now I'm supposed to max out as a 12, unless I appeal at some point. Don't really know what that process will look like. I'm also adding on some work thanks to all of the extra funds we're getting where management is explicitly trying to find someone senior (that is, a 13) to transfer in and handle it. We'll see if that happens, there just aren't a lot of them left.
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ilkhan posted:Speaking of, what is the actual difference? Exempt and nonexempt refer to FLSA. Non exempt means you get overtime, paid for training and travel, and overall get fair compensation for the time you do work and work related stuff. Exempt, which should really be SES only but is applied to loving everyone, means you get ripped off. This isn't limited to fedgov, it's an America problem. Competitive service is the majority of fedgov positions where they have to follow the whole rulebook to hire you. Excepted service get to do things differently in hiring because they're looking for specific qualifications.
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I was asking about excepted and competitive. Where does DHA fit in there?
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It varies by position. You might have competitive and excepted service people working together in different roles in different agencies. As mentioned, attorneys are always excepted service, but their legal assistants are going to be competitive service. As far as I can ascertain, it's better in most ways to be competitive service. The advantage of excepted is that they can hire you without as much rigamarole. Not sure if it has any other inherent advantages.
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Are there any fully Work From Home IT jobs these days? I'm a disabled vet with 20 years as a sysadmin. I keep searching the usual job sites, but when I see a govt job listed as Remote on Indeed or whatever, I'll go to the govt site and it'll say 9-5 in a cubicle in Bumfuck Nowhere. I get there's probably no remote jobs that require a clearance, but how hard could it be to keep some server running while I'm in my underwear, that's what I've been doing the last 4 years.
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Zero VGS posted:Are there any fully Work From Home IT jobs these days? I'm a disabled vet with 20 years as a sysadmin. I keep searching the usual job sites, but when I see a govt job listed as Remote on Indeed or whatever, I'll go to the govt site and it'll say 9-5 in a cubicle in Bumfuck Nowhere. I get there's probably no remote jobs that require a clearance, but how hard could it be to keep some server running while I'm in my underwear, that's what I've been doing the last 4 years. At SSA we aren't technically fully remote, but half our IT staff don't even know where their cubes are, it's been so long since they've been in the building.
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Toshimo posted:At SSA we aren't technically fully remote, but half our IT staff don't even know where their cubes are, it's been so long since they've been in the building. Must be nice to still have a cube, anyone in my office who didn't go back to full time in the office got switched to hoteling.
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sullat posted:Must be nice to still have a cube, anyone in my office who didn't go back to full time in the office got switched to hoteling. That's coming. They just haven't had a reason to, since why bother if nobody is coming in anyway?
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Yeah, I don't even have an assigned desk. My branch just has a couple clusters of cubes and a conference room that gets used every couple weeks when a bunch of our tech 14s pile all their meetings in to one day.
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Apr 2, 2023 02:52
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We've done so much hiring at the EPA that I'm not sure we will have space for everyone in a few months. If we brought back the fully remote people, we'd have no place to put them.
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Zero VGS posted:Are there any fully Work From Home IT jobs these days? I'm a disabled vet with 20 years as a sysadmin. I keep searching the usual job sites, but when I see a govt job listed as Remote on Indeed or whatever, I'll go to the govt site and it'll say 9-5 in a cubicle in Bumfuck Nowhere. I get there's probably no remote jobs that require a clearance, but how hard could it be to keep some server running while I'm in my underwear, that's what I've been doing the last 4 years. My whole IT division is fully remote. We're mostly the rule, and not the exception at my agency.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:? There are 59 open postings for remote 2210s. Oh I figured it out. I'm new to USAJOBS and it specifically told me to type "REMOTE" in the search bar. But it was returning only jobs from "Remote, Oregon". You have to use the drop-down and find "show remote only" Is there a way to look up those job codes like 2210? Might be some other things I'm qualified for but not sure how to go about it.
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Zero VGS posted:Oh I figured it out. I'm new to USAJOBS and it specifically told me to type "REMOTE" in the search bar. But it was returning only jobs from "Remote, Oregon". You have to use the drop-down and find "show remote only" For the other search field, where you can put in key words, just type 2210, and it should give you a drop down option to select that "job series"
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I have to work in-office all week, because I moved into a new place and need a technician from Xfinity to activate my service. It's only Tuesday and I am completely over working from home. I don't have to use my power, my air conditioning, my heating, or my space. Five whole miles between home and work.
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Star Man posted:I have to work in-office all week, because I moved into a new place and need a technician from Xfinity to activate my service.
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The overwhelming theme of the last two weeks is "find the massive, unpunished-for mistake by one of us that screwed a claimant and will take you four hours to fix." Literally a half-dozen since last Monday. All of them uniquely terrible mistakes and/or complete gently caress-its. I'm ready to be That Guy. The emails you several times a week with examples of how you did this case here wrong and CC's your boss Guy.
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So I just checked my email to see a tentative offer for a 7/9 position with the Natural Resources Conservation Service with relocation assistance that I didn’t even interview for. The only problem is that it’s in Buttfuck, North Dakota, population 900. Am I crazy for turning this down? I only have until tomorrow to decide. I’m desperate to get out of the GS 5 hell that I’m currently in, but I don’t know if I’m that desperate. I’m fine moving to a less than great place, but imagining myself living in this place for one to two years fills me with dread. I have a standing offer in my current city for a direct hire GS 6/7, which I’m tempted to take even though it’s a very boring job, and just see what else I can get in the meantime. I just don’t want to kick myself down the line for turning this down, since I could probably do it for a year and then have a much better choice of locations. Then again, it seems like they’re always trying to get people for these middle of nowhere positions, so I suppose if nothing pans out for me I could probably get something the next time around.
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If you don't want to live there even for a year, don't take the job. Something else will pop that doesn't involve a year+ of misery.
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Just scheduled my interview for a direct hire position next week. Is it at all appropriate for me to ask them questions back like what the timeline is like for the decision and hiring process?
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Imo the decision to take a job somewhere poo poo depends on what kind of job you're trying to get into. I got lucky in wildlife but I was absolutely prepared to spend a year or so in BFE Nevada to break into a permanent gig. If you're field is super competitive it might be worth it.
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Serjeant Buzfuz posted:Just scheduled my interview for a direct hire position next week. Is it at all appropriate for me to ask them questions back like what the timeline is like for the decision and hiring process? I've asked this for every .gov job I've ever interviewed for, I've got several of them, so take that anecdote how you will.
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wizardofloneliness posted:So I just checked my email to see a tentative offer for a 7/9 position with the Natural Resources Conservation Service with relocation assistance that I didn’t even interview for. The only problem is that it’s in Buttfuck, North Dakota, population 900. Am I crazy for turning this down? I only have until tomorrow to decide. I’m desperate to get out of the GS 5 hell that I’m currently in, but I don’t know if I’m that desperate. I’m fine moving to a less than great place, but imagining myself living in this place for one to two years fills me with dread. I have a standing offer in my current city for a direct hire GS 6/7, which I’m tempted to take even though it’s a very boring job, and just see what else I can get in the meantime. Where in bum gently caress North Dakota is this and where do you live now? I've lived all over that state if you have questions about what is like
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I keep thinking of this thread every time I see "20,000 GODDAMN IRS AGENTS HOLY poo poo" Everyone sad that they are not at least a GS-7 I imagine if you get any plausible experience with IRS-adjacent things ready to advertise you are going to be in a good position going forward Also I know ultimately only your own feelings on the issue matter, but I would live anywhere for a year to bump up to the next higher GS. That is how I have already ping-ponged around the country on my journey to finally being in a position with GS-12 promotion potential!
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So I'm potentially up for a 90 day GS-11 detail. My boss is supportive but their boss may not be. I've heard somewhere that no supervisor or manager can deny a temporary promotion. Might this be agency specific or is this a govt wide thing? If it's govt wide, any idea where I might be able to find the rule? I looked on OPM and couldn't find anything.
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I did not know you could get a temporary promotion through a detail, that is interesting in and of itself. That said, going on a detail that my supervisor supported and her supervisor did not is how I got blacklisted at my job and took 7 years to get past GS-9, so I would honestly seriously consider not doing this.
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sparkmaster posted:So I'm potentially up for a 90 day GS-11 detail. My boss is supportive but their boss may not be. I've heard somewhere that no supervisor or manager can deny a temporary promotion. Might this be agency specific or is this a govt wide thing? If it's govt wide, any idea where I might be able to find the rule? I looked on OPM and couldn't find anything. If your management won't support your advancement, gently caress 'em. Go find another, better manager at another, better job.
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Temp promotions are limited to 120 days. As far as approval, if you're selected for that detail, you get paid for it. I would assume that both your supervisor and the details supervisor would both have to agree on it for you to be selected. But once selected, they must pay you. Edit:. Seconding that. ^^
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Toshimo posted:If your management won't support your advancement, gently caress 'em. Go find another, better manager at another, better job. I did exactly this. Kept getting stonewalled about grade increases and upward mobility. The most insulting part was them telling me "But we have all the OT you can get to make up for not getting the grade." Put in my resume, got selected for a position that's on a 9-12 ladder with a target 13. Best part about this new agency and position is not having to deal with a constant worry about meeting that production quota. That and people are legitimately happy about their work and not just "Going through the motions." My mental health has improved by a large margin as well. I no longer have that Sunday dread anxiety.
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Just heard a rumor from my AFGE Local’s president that Biden will issue an EO tomorrow limiting telework to 5 days per pay period. Well, poo poo.
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