Same here. Not a peep from upper mgmt. Just rumor about Monday. I just picked up cases that are no where near me, so not sure what DCSA is thinking.
Not sure how this will play out. Less staff now due to covid RIF’s, DCSA only going to offer 2 Companies the contract, and going back to the field. I see immediate backlog in DCSA’s future…
Can any of the fed staff offer any insight as to what “being back in the field” looks like? I heard you have all been in the field since this past Monday….
We probably will get an email with full guidance late Friday afternoon after everyone is done for the week.
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Ha, yeah right. As if CACI would send out anything before COB Friday. They get it wrong, every single time. Poor planning to the core without fail.
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As with everything we will be told there is an immediate change, given a guidance email with 100 pages of confusing information and given 1 hour to read it/charge it to our timesheet, then be expected to be experts at all the new changes, reprimanded by our team leader if we get something wrong, then follow up emails with changed guidance, etc.
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This is going to be a nightmare. There aren’t enough people to go around.
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You hit the nail on the head and are 100% correct.
Fed guidance, 100% in person. Phone/video interviews need supervisory approval.
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It is Friday….and still no news from CACI. Surprised, but not a surprise. Surprised only because again, it cannot be financially advantageous to caci to have us cancel all our appointments for next week (my work is not in my area).
Still can’t believe that we will be 100% in person….that is different than it was even before Covid….
I have no skin in the game and don’t care if we are in person or by telephone (although I am a member of the camp that thinks we get the same information either way)…I just want to know, so I can plan (work and family-wise).
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The policy was dropped on us last Friday.
In person is the first choice with VTC now being in the tool box for places/people where in person can’t be done. Records are still the same. Must follow the org’s masking rules, if any, without fuss.
This is about the only change without discussing the HPCON system.
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Not surprised. CACI does not care about its investigators…just how much money the higher ups can fill their pockets with. I used to think USIS was bad, but CACI is worse, much worse. Pre-Covid we could interview sources and get records via telephone and write it off “due to geographical distance”. I would think that will still apply. My team lead has no problem assigning me sources/records that are 150 miles away and I’ll be damned if I’m going to drive a 300 mile round trip just to interview 1 source.
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Too early! It will come at 4:52PM.
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Not defending CACI (Believe me, I am not fond of them anyway) but I think it has to do more with DCSA not providing feedback to the companies. So in this case, I would say DCSA is probably more at fault than one of the contracting companies.
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what feedback from DCSA? No more using COVID as an excuse to not do interviews in person.
Being a former contractor supervisor, I remember when Mixon sat on a major policy change (the one where we started confronting Subjects with developed issues) because he didn’t see it as significant.
feedback as in current workload. Cases assigned that are all over. Do we give them back and have them reassigned? If I need to schedule something out on an existing case, do I attempt by phone or send it to the field. That feedback…
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Since the only guidance is no phone as of Monday RT/UC everything out of your area so you don’t break the no phone rule.
I agree that CACI is likely waiting for clarification from DCSA regarding the new policies prior to giving us any information. From what I heard from other companies, DCSA provided a statement that all work is to be done in person…but as I said before, that goes against how things were done before Covid, so other companies have asked DCSA for clarification. But those companies have at least told their employees what DCSA said and added that they are seeking clarifications. At caci, we haven’t even been told we are going in the field Monday. It would have been nice for them to tell us what they know, so at least I know if I need to cancel my appointments scheduled for next week. I do not believe that caci will be treated differently than the others or that we will be given a different set of rules, so come on already and tell us something!! A little transparency could go a long way…
And I just want to add that it is just humorous at this point how poorly caci is managed. Not sure they could find themselves out of a paper bag at this point.
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I don’t know about your areas, but about 15 of my 18 person team are currently being assigned solely DHS work with no plans to pull anyone back to DCSA. But I’m sure three whole people can handle a return to the field just fine.
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Same with my team. CACI really bit off more than they can chew with all of the extra contracts and lack of staff. Everyone on my team is miserable and it falls on deaf ears. I believe we only have about 5 investigators on my team doing only DCSA and we are expected to cover two states. How in the heck is this gonna work out when we are in person???
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I’m at CACI in the west coast and several teams here were notified this week about returning to the field this Monday 05/16. Zero guidance though. We were told more clarification to come on Monday from DCSA.
Next week, all items currently assigned that are out of area will be RG’d to their appropriate area for in person work. Lots of questions but no answers….just waiting on DCSA.
Next week will be a ■■■■ show.
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