Always odd when one brings up this point or says “the fed isnt a job entitlement factory,” or “guaranteed for life.” Nobody is claiming the contrary, and many of us know there is fat and bloat. We arent against reductions following the rules. My facility has 74 dod civilians. At one point it was 98% military. During the war military returned to units and dod civilians were brought in. Now we have 85% dod civilian, 15% military. 12 fed-civ took the first fork in the road, we have 8 probationary, and 17 term employees, like me. Round 1 of the RIF ends all temps and terms. No renewal, no extension. These are 1 deep positions critical to a career field. As the terms get cut the jobs will not be done. We will take a 50% cut. Could we live without 2 or 3? Sure. But each of us have on average 5 collateral duties. All of these will be levied on those remaining. Recipe for disaster. That is just round 1 of RIF. And there are at least 2 more after that.
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