Don’t know who this is, but seems like an appropriate line when discussing fire.
I’ve been through several large corporate downsizes. They were strategically planned and completed in phases. Usually technology advances helped instigate the work consolidation and combing of groups to eliminate layers of management.retirement and separation packages are selectively offered. The reductions I have seen have worked.
Well, they are trying to get rid of those too.
The complete post reflects the skewed watermelons-to-giraffes analogy between private business and federal government. But above statement reflects lack of awareness of the continuous debriefings, trouble shooting, analysis and ever changing federal agency rules, policies and practices, many of which undergo lengthy extensive public comment and input processes prior to implementation. Furthermore, many of the changes and priority shifts not even desired by the agency are the mandates of Congress and often result in the inefficiencies sometimes very visable to the public and thus the source(s) of public criticism and complaints.
Unfortunately, the conflicting information is exactly representative of and accurately depicts the situation we are in. We have been repeatedly told certain jobs were exempt, yet people I know in those jobs are still being fired. You might not like it but it’s absolutely what is happening.
We are waiting the inevitable for the clerk at work. 40 year civil service veteran, took her 1st promotion last Nov. Great employee, just stayed in our small section. We are self funded, zero tax dollars go to our salary. We bring in 4-5x the revenue it costs to fund us. 20 years ago,the section was 6 foresters and 3 clerks. Now 3 foresters and 1 clerk. We have to cover the same area and do the same job. Looks like we are gonna lose 1 forester who asked a question about the "deferred resignation". After asking his question to OPM, he got added to the list. Haven't been able to remove him. Now the clerk is probably gone. Gonna be hard to cover the basics. Oldest forester is set to retire later this year. That will just leave me. Assuming I get thru all these "what have you done this week" emails.
It's a viscous cycle, to be sure.
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I know the feeling. We have one unit that was down to 2 staff. One eligible to retire took the buyout. The entry level guy we hired to take over some of his duties got fired. So now zero staff. Assuming it will be shuttered.
Highlights just one of the head shaking ironies inherent in their actions.
Right now I have 50 civilians working on timber sale contracts. When the weather dries up, that will be 100-120. If we aren't here, they can't work on govt lands. All from rural areas where jobs matter. It just doesn't make sense.
Unless you have a story to share, take it elsewhere. That's what this thread is about, impacts to people going through this in their words, in their personal stories.
This thread is for personal stories about people getting wrongly fired from land management agencies.
It's a fair point, but it also goes both ways. It's pretty annoying to people that understand how things work to constantly have to explain things to highly opinionated people that don't. It's also annoying when any little thing that gets posted here gets an annoying and out of place "well what about". The gofund me the other day was a particularly egregious example of that.
