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Star Man posted:I think you live in whatever quarters they provide on-site. Those quarters are still charged against your salary at rates assessed (among other things) on the basis of prevailing market rate, so even lovely park housing is often shockingly expensive because the nearby gateway communities are expensive tourist towns. 
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Still have to pay for those! And hope the local rent isn't too high. I've heard the poor fuckers at Grand Tetons have to pay rent commiserate with Jackson, which is absolutely insane. I paid ~$400 a month to live in a two-room shack in the woods in the Sierra Nevada, and I was lucky since that was the price for shared housing and I never got a roommate - it would have been twice that if I'd had the gall to demand 250 square feet of personal space. I'm from Wyoming, so I already know what the cost of living in that entire corner of the state is like. I should have put it together that rent was being charged. I knew a PTF clerk with the Postal Service who worked in Jackson and she had to commute from Afton every day. This is also the most liberal part of the state. In my defense, my knee jerk reaction is this forum is so full to the gills with IT and software engineers that I read everything like it's coming from an internet shut-in.
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Elem7 posted:I'm genuinely curious, do you know what that number was in 1990? The source I pulled the above number for said that like 50% of govt workers were GS-7 and below in the 60s. I'd love to know what it was in the 90s and early 2000. Quorum posted:Those quarters are still charged against your salary at rates assessed (among other things) on the basis of prevailing market rate, so even lovely park housing is often shockingly expensive because the nearby gateway communities are expensive tourist towns. This is the absolute dumbest policy in fedgov. Make GS-3s and 4s pay more because a whole bunch of rich people moved in and bought up everything else. Some DOI entities were able to get away with not properly applying rate increases for a while, but the higherups have cracked down on that over the years. My rent for a literal dorm room (still nicer than 75% of govt housing) has doubled from 2020-2023. $450/mo is a hell of a lot for GS-low career seasonals.
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Elem7 posted:I'm genuinely curious, do you know what that number was in 1990? sparkmaster posted:The source I pulled the above number for said that like 50% of govt workers were GS-7 and below in the 60s. I'd love to know what it was in the 90s and early 2000. I’m not sure if this is related at all but I’m curious how the number of federal contractors has changed during the same time period. Some sections I’ve worked with were 60-70% contractors with GS 12s and 13s as supervisors and managers.
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There should be government owned housing forced on feds in every agency. I'm imagining large public housing projects, maybe soviet style housing blocs, crammed with bureaucrats surrounding downtown DC
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Thesaurus posted:There should be government owned housing forced on feds in every agency. I'm imagining large public housing projects, maybe soviet style housing blocs, crammed with bureaucrats surrounding downtown DC It’s called Arlington.
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Star Man posted:I'm from Wyoming, so I already know what the cost of living in that entire corner of the state is like. I should have put it together that rent was being charged. I knew a PTF clerk with the Postal Service who worked in Jackson and she had to commute from Afton every day. This is also the most liberal part of the state. I lived in Afton for a while and commuted into Jackson to work. loving miserable period of my life.
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Oh boy. It's only the start of March, the IRS isn't getting letters requesting ID verification or informing them of income verification that will take
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Star Man posted:Oh boy. It's only the start of March, the IRS isn't getting letters requesting ID verification or informing them of income verification that will take The tax code is the absolute dumbest way to distribute welfare because the people who desperately need the money have to wait seemingly random lengths of time to get it, while on the other end I have to deal with the big brain geniuses who used one weird trick they learned on TikTok to lower their tax liability by making up fake businesses with huge fraudulent losses so they can get the EITC while making $300K a year.
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:It’s called Arlington. Honestly, it's more Fairfax, so all the boomers complain about being "forced" to drive to the office.
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Jokes on them, my office is in Fairfax (county)
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LyonsLions posted:The tax code is the absolute dumbest way to distribute welfare because the people who desperately need the money have to wait seemingly random lengths of time to get it, while on the other end I have to deal with the big brain geniuses who used one weird trick they learned on TikTok to lower their tax liability by making up fake businesses with huge fraudulent losses so they can get the EITC while making $300K a year. Maybe I just didn't look that much into it last year because I was working my first filing season, but I browse reported income on accounts more often now when there's a refund freeze and income has to be verified. There's a lot of returns being held up in review and the forms W-2 or 1099-R look normal and they had the same employer or pension going back a few years. But there's no income reported by the payer in IDRS for 2023 because it was never sent or it just isn't in IDRS yet because reasons. Usually fraudulent returns are pretty easy to spot on an account, and I've categorized them into three groups:
I don't have the time or cause to math verify everyone's claims stuck in a RIVO -R freeze over the phone, especially if there's no math error on the return. I also can't disclose income information anyway, so I can't tell people what the likely cause for the review is besides offering vague advice and to hurry up and wait or file an amended return.
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Was told I’m tentatively eligible based on my self assessment but due to high volume of applicants only veterans preference were passed onto the hiring manager. I guess it is what it says? Does this mean they haven’t looked at my resume and just took all the people that passed the silly self-assessment that were veterans and cut it off there?
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My mom was told in her benefits interview with SSA that she would get $1xxx and she got a letter saying she's getting $7xx??
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cheese eats mouse posted:Was told I’m tentatively eligible based on my self assessment but due to high volume of applicants only veterans preference were passed onto the hiring manager. Typically I think it means your resume was looked at by an HR person, who just checked whether it and the questionnaire responses met the baseline requirements for the posting. That's the first hurdle. Here, it seems like enough people with veterans preference met the criteria to bump you out of the running entirely, which stinks.
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cheese eats mouse posted:Was told I’m tentatively eligible based on my self assessment but due to high volume of applicants only veterans preference were passed onto the hiring manager. For typical positions in the Federal government, very strong preference is given to veterans, and the process makes it very difficult to hire a non-veteran if numerous veterans have applied and been found eligible. So because of this, they essentially know that no non-veterans will practically get awarded this particular job, and they did the non-vets the kindness of letting them know early on that they have no shot. The hiring manager is never going to be able to get through the queue of veterans that are about to get thrown at them. It's possible that all the people being sent to them will be unqualified, but at that point they would probably step back and adjust the posting, and re-advertise to eliminate the people at the eligibility step rather than try to disqualify the enormous stack of veterans. There are other ways that agencies hire people (e.g. Direct Hire Authority) that gets around this, but if you're in a big pool with a lot of eligible veterans you are not likely to succeed if the normal hiring process is followed.
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Seamonster posted:My mom was told in her benefits interview with SSA that she would get $1xxx and she got a letter saying she's getting $7xx?? If she filed for retirement and was eligible for an additional spousal benefit she will get 2 letters and the total should be the higher amount she was quoted hopefully.
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Devor posted:For typical positions in the Federal government, very strong preference is given to veterans, and the process makes it very difficult to hire a non-veteran if numerous veterans have applied and been found eligible. Ok ty for the elaboration. It was a lower experienced remote position for a UX job. I was overqualified so not surprised there were some veterans in the 100 they said they’d look at. You could basically be a junior level designer and be qualified.
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Nutella posted:If she filed for retirement and was eligible for an additional spousal benefit she will get 2 letters and the total should be the higher amount she was quoted hopefully. Most likely this, but call to confirm. Call your local office. It may or may not be staffed by numbskulls, but the odds are you get a better answer than the national 1-800 number.
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Devor posted:For typical positions in the Federal government, very strong preference is given to veterans, and the process makes it very difficult to hire a non-veteran if numerous veterans have applied and been found eligible. To expand on this a little in order to bypass a veteran in the hiring queue, which can be done, requires a detailed justification and the approval of several layers of management including the executive of that business unit and the executive's boss, at least in my agency. In other words its something usually only done in the most egregious circumstances; usually it's easier to just hire them somewhere and hopefully get through to the qualified people but this doesn't always happen. Sometimes this results in hiring unqualified veterans into positions where they are not likely to succeed. This may sound harsh to veterans but you have to remember that 'eligibility' is not defined by the hiring manager or assessed by someone that has any familiarity with what the job actually entails and requires, so you can end up with a lot of unqualified but technically eligible people on the veteran's cert with no real way around that. The hiring managers receive a separate veteran's cert first and only after clearing that list will they even see the remaining candidates.
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I've gotten many "you have been referred to the hiring manager" confirmations and yet none of them ever call me
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Fundamentally Veterans are at the top of the list in hiring, then other groups such as displaced federal workers, Schedule A, and so on. Those groups get preference over people not in this groups and if all of them wash out for some reason or another, then they move to the regular candidates. Contacting bids selections are similar though there's more flexibility if there's only one slot whereas if there's multiple, then those reserved slots must have someone filling them from a special group such as women owned, minority owned, veteran owned, etc
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Got my second qualified but many veterans applied. Sounding like my fed resume writing skills are good at least
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Starting to take a look at federal jobs since my post grad school job search has not landed me any job offers yet. Spent 5 years as an Army officer (O3/Captain) and qualify for the 10 point preference for disabled vets. Anything I should know about resumes/CVs? Heard they're a bit different for federal jobs. My Army experience is mostly logistics project/program management with some financial stuff thrown in. Experience managing a Government Purchase Card account/budget and managing government contracts. BA in International Studies, MBA in well, Business Administration.
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Mustang posted:Starting to take a look at federal jobs since my post grad school job search has not landed me any job offers yet. Spent 5 years as an Army officer (O3/Captain) and qualify for the 10 point preference for disabled vets. My advice with Federal resume working is to look over the Resume building guide on USAJobs. I've heard that the thing applicants leave out most frequently are the hours they worked per week, and it does make a difference. I'm afraid I don't know much of anything about Veterans preference, but it can only help. For what it's worth, I think your life experiences and education look great, and hopefully it won't take too long for it all to work out for you!
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cheese eats mouse posted:Got my second qualified but many veterans applied. Maybe! Don't rest on your laurels about your resume, there's always room for improvement. It might just be getting you through some HR workflows that don't examine too closely the non-veteran resumes. If you are a smart HR person (or smart person designing the business process), you'd start your reviews with the veteran resumes, and once you hit some threshold number of qualified veterans, you can take shortcuts with the non-vets. It's not like you're going to have people appealing a 'qualified' assessment, after all.
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Sitting in COR training rn and learning a bunch about Mint exemptions to basically all of it thanks to 31 USC 5136. This includes CICA and the FAR. Also learned about Randoph-Sheppard which seems very silly.
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lol I'm essential
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Star Man posted:lol I'm essential Are you still in Accounts Management? An IRS customer-service rep during tax season is essential as hell
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Crickets over here, everybody tacitly assumes it'll pass. I suspect we get a just for fun shutdown over the weekend and then we have a budget at last.
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Midjack posted:Crickets over here, everybody tacitly assumes it'll pass. I suspect we get a just for fun shutdown over the weekend and then we have a budget at last. I hope so! I'm at an academy, and while USCIS is fee funded, the academy evidently is not. Just gonna play it by ear, I suppose.
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Antivehicular posted:Are you still in Accounts Management? An IRS customer-service rep during tax season is essential as hell yinz will be among the first to know if and when I fall upwards into a criminal investigation job But it seems like not everyone in my remote call site is considered essential. Seems how this was decided was by reverse EOD. We're expecting appropriations to pass the Senate and nothing changes.
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Last time we almost shut down I was deemed essential. I would have literally been sitting on my hands doing nothing. This time I’m entering my busiest two weeks of the year, and I’m deemed non-essential. I’d say to make it make sense, but after 14 years I know to just roll with it.
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Last minute save!
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Oh for those old-fashioned shutdowns of yore, not these hip new ones that only happen over weekends when nobody'll notice.
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To clarify, does a "referred to hiring manager" mean that the applicant has gotten past the internal hire/veteran/spouse glut?
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Discendo Vox posted:To clarify, does a "referred to hiring manager" mean that the applicant has gotten past the internal hire/veteran/spouse glut? Yup! It’s “qualified but not passed on” that is “sorry, enough vets got in”.
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I'm non-essential, but we were in the first minibus, so already had a budget. Anyway, congrats to everyone who gets to go to work on Monday!
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Whelp, officially made the journey all the way from step 1 to step 10 today.
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Shadragul posted:Whelp, officially made the journey all the way from step 1 to step 10 today. How many QSIs along the way?
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