8 months of pay
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 03:02 last edited by
This was an Elon idea, I believe.
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Read the whole thing. Crazy. You can just reply with “resign” and you get 8 months of pay and benefits.
If it were me I’d take it and then just take a contractor position. Imagine if you’re about to move or have a kid, what a lucky bonus. For some at least.
Gotta give credit for big ideas. Might not agree with them all but these are big moves we haven’t seen from presidents in a while.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 04:56 last edited by@89th said in 8 months of pay:
Gotta give credit for big ideas.
No, you actually fucking don't. Some folks with Medicaid are getting screwed over as of today due to this nonsense. My wife's office had to turn people away and if this doesn't get fixed soon, my sister-in-law and her daughter are SOL.
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 12:01 last edited by jon-nyc
This seems to have no legal basis but there’s a chance the resignations will stick. I’d hold off, at least until it unfolds in court.
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 12:03 last edited by
@Jolly said in 8 months of pay:
This was an Elon idea, I believe.
Even the email subject line was the same. But he was offering three months.
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 14:29 last edited by
@Jolly said in 8 months of pay:
This was an Elon idea, I believe.
Yeah it's from his Twitter playbook. Even the email subject "fork in the road" that federal employees saw came from what he did at Twitter. Hopefully it's not all the same since Elon reneged on paying folks the severance packages they were promised. Although not paying your debts is from Trump's playbook, too.
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@89th said in 8 months of pay:
Gotta give credit for big ideas.
No, you actually fucking don't. Some folks with Medicaid are getting screwed over as of today due to this nonsense. My wife's office had to turn people away and if this doesn't get fixed soon, my sister-in-law and her daughter are SOL.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 15:16 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in 8 months of pay:
@89th said in 8 months of pay:
Gotta give credit for big ideas.
No, you actually fucking don't. Some folks with Medicaid are getting screwed over as of today due to this nonsense. My wife's office had to turn people away and if this doesn't get fixed soon, my sister-in-law and her daughter are SOL.
This is about the RTO order, not the spending freeze. But on that issue, this is sounding quite a lot like the “malicious enforcement” thing like when somebody removed the Tuskagee Airmen from the website.
I’m sure that @Jolly @George-K and @Mik will know more than me, but it’s my understanding that the Federal Government does not fund the portal on a daily or even weekly basis, the funds set aside for Medicaid are already set aside and do not count as new funding. Somebody in the government (probably somebody not considering the resignation offer) proceeded to shut down the already funded portal. The portal was restored yesterday, but is now acting buggy. It’s worth noting that the administration as well as many state officials were on the record yesterday stating that the freeze would not affect Medicaid or Head Start.
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Read the whole thing. Crazy. You can just reply with “resign” and you get 8 months of pay and benefits.
If it were me I’d take it and then just take a contractor position. Imagine if you’re about to move or have a kid, what a lucky bonus. For some at least.
Gotta give credit for big ideas. Might not agree with them all but these are big moves we haven’t seen from presidents in a while.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 17:05 last edited by@89th said in 8 months of pay:
Read the whole thing. Crazy. You can just reply with “resign” and you get 8 months of pay and benefits.
If it were me I’d take it and then just take a contractor position. Imagine if you’re about to move or have a kid, what a lucky bonus. For some at least.
Gotta give credit for big ideas. Might not agree with them all but these are big moves we haven’t seen from presidents in a while.
sounds good but there is a hiring freeze right now but who knows for how long. my original retirement date was going to be 12/31/25 but now with this new offer, I think i can bump it up to 9/30/25. it sure sounds nice on paper but I think I will give it a few more days before I reply to my Fork in the Road email I received yesterday. The deadline as of now for decision is Feb 6.
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 17:10 last edited by
oh just an fyi for those interested. You may have noticed that most fed employees choose the last day of a calendar year to retire. Why so? Because we are allowed to carry a maximum of 240 hours annual leave over to the next calendar year. If one had lets say 250 hours of this leave available at the end of the year, the government would simply erase 10 hours off your record. So with this in mind, one could enter their last year of work with 240 hours of leave and accumulate approximately 200 plus more hours during this last year and have over 440 hours total in retirement. This is cash money payed back to you at your current hourly rate. I am told though that there is a very harsh witholding performed on this amount to the tune of 40% which is absurd but obviously much returned back after doing taxes.
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 17:17 last edited by
What's the typical annual leave?
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 17:43 last edited by
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 18:08 last edited by
@NobodySock said in 8 months of pay:
@George-K said in 8 months of pay:
What's the typical annual leave?
Not sure what you are asking
You said " we are allowed to carry a maximum of 240 hours annual leave."
That's 6 weeks' vacation, assuming a 40 hour week.
How much vacay is typical? I assume it varies with job title, position, etc.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in 8 months of pay:
@89th said in 8 months of pay:
Gotta give credit for big ideas.
No, you actually fucking don't. Some folks with Medicaid are getting screwed over as of today due to this nonsense. My wife's office had to turn people away and if this doesn't get fixed soon, my sister-in-law and her daughter are SOL.
This is about the RTO order, not the spending freeze. But on that issue, this is sounding quite a lot like the “malicious enforcement” thing like when somebody removed the Tuskagee Airmen from the website.
I’m sure that @Jolly @George-K and @Mik will know more than me, but it’s my understanding that the Federal Government does not fund the portal on a daily or even weekly basis, the funds set aside for Medicaid are already set aside and do not count as new funding. Somebody in the government (probably somebody not considering the resignation offer) proceeded to shut down the already funded portal. The portal was restored yesterday, but is now acting buggy. It’s worth noting that the administration as well as many state officials were on the record yesterday stating that the freeze would not affect Medicaid or Head Start.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 18:12 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in 8 months of pay:
@Aqua-Letifer said in 8 months of pay:
@89th said in 8 months of pay:
Gotta give credit for big ideas.
No, you actually fucking don't. Some folks with Medicaid are getting screwed over as of today due to this nonsense. My wife's office had to turn people away and if this doesn't get fixed soon, my sister-in-law and her daughter are SOL.
This is about the RTO order, not the spending freeze. But on that issue, this is sounding quite a lot like the “malicious enforcement” thing like when somebody removed the Tuskagee Airmen from the website.
I’m sure that @Jolly @George-K and @Mik will know more than me, but it’s my understanding that the Federal Government does not fund the portal on a daily or even weekly basis, the funds set aside for Medicaid are already set aside and do not count as new funding. Somebody in the government (probably somebody not considering the resignation offer) proceeded to shut down the already funded portal. The portal was restored yesterday, but is now acting buggy. It’s worth noting that the administration as well as many state officials were on the record yesterday stating that the freeze would not affect Medicaid or Head Start.
Could very well be malicious enforcement, but if that's so then someone needs to go to jail. A lot of people were turned away from their doctors' offices yesterday.
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@NobodySock said in 8 months of pay:
@George-K said in 8 months of pay:
What's the typical annual leave?
Not sure what you are asking
You said " we are allowed to carry a maximum of 240 hours annual leave."
That's 6 weeks' vacation, assuming a 40 hour week.
How much vacay is typical? I assume it varies with job title, position, etc.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 19:12 last edited by@George-K said in 8 months of pay:
@NobodySock said in 8 months of pay:
@George-K said in 8 months of pay:
What's the typical annual leave?
Not sure what you are asking
You said " we are allowed to carry a maximum of 240 hours annual leave."
That's 6 weeks' vacation, assuming a 40 hour week.
How much vacay is typical? I assume it varies with job title, position, etc.
One starts out earning 4 hours vacation every two weeks. After a certain amount if years, it bumps to 6 per pay period. And finallt tops out at 8 hours per pay period. Cant remember how many years service to get to magic 8. On top of this annual leave, everyone gets 4 hours per pay period for sick leave. One can accumulate as much of that as they want but it is not given back to the retiree as cash but added as time served.
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@George-K said in 8 months of pay:
@NobodySock said in 8 months of pay:
@George-K said in 8 months of pay:
What's the typical annual leave?
Not sure what you are asking
You said " we are allowed to carry a maximum of 240 hours annual leave."
That's 6 weeks' vacation, assuming a 40 hour week.
How much vacay is typical? I assume it varies with job title, position, etc.
One starts out earning 4 hours vacation every two weeks. After a certain amount if years, it bumps to 6 per pay period. And finallt tops out at 8 hours per pay period. Cant remember how many years service to get to magic 8. On top of this annual leave, everyone gets 4 hours per pay period for sick leave. One can accumulate as much of that as they want but it is not given back to the retiree as cash but added as time served.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 19:21 last edited bySo obviously, it is my intention to save as much annual leave as possible this year before I retire, but now it may be cut short by three months as well as an intended recon trip to Sardinia this May to determine if this is truly the place for me that’s gonna burn 120 hours right there . But I have heard rumor that I should be able to use 120 hours of the sick leave pot for this, but don’t hold me to it. I need to find out.
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@NobodySock said in 8 months of pay:
@George-K said in 8 months of pay:
What's the typical annual leave?
Not sure what you are asking
You said " we are allowed to carry a maximum of 240 hours annual leave."
That's 6 weeks' vacation, assuming a 40 hour week.
How much vacay is typical? I assume it varies with job title, position, etc.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 19:38 last edited by@George-K said in 8 months of pay:
@NobodySock said in 8 months of pay:
@George-K said in 8 months of pay:
What's the typical annual leave?
Not sure what you are asking
You said " we are allowed to carry a maximum of 240 hours annual leave."
That's 6 weeks' vacation, assuming a 40 hour week.
How much vacay is typical? I assume it varies with job title, position, etc.
I had an offer from the VA. Leave is why I worked for Louisiana. When I retired, they paid me for 300 hours of vacation leave. Then they combined my sick leave and the rest of my vacation leave, and rolled it into my retirement as service time.
All 4 years of it.
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 19:42 last edited by
If I could roll-over sick leave I'd probably be sitting on a beach right now.
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 19:44 last edited by
I took 3 days in 34 years.
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 20:33 last edited by
i just dawned on me that if this new EO is all I think it is, I can take my trip to Sardinia and not use 1 single hour of leave. Boy, this is sounding better by the minute.
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i just dawned on me that if this new EO is all I think it is, I can take my trip to Sardinia and not use 1 single hour of leave. Boy, this is sounding better by the minute.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 23:04 last edited by@NobodySock said in 8 months of pay:
i just dawned on me that if this new EO is all I think it is, I can take my trip to Sardinia and not use 1 single hour of leave. Boy, this is sounding better by the minute.
Sounds like it got rescinded.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in 8 months of pay:
@89th said in 8 months of pay:
Gotta give credit for big ideas.
No, you actually fucking don't. Some folks with Medicaid are getting screwed over as of today due to this nonsense. My wife's office had to turn people away and if this doesn't get fixed soon, my sister-in-law and her daughter are SOL.
This is about the RTO order, not the spending freeze. But on that issue, this is sounding quite a lot like the “malicious enforcement” thing like when somebody removed the Tuskagee Airmen from the website.
I’m sure that @Jolly @George-K and @Mik will know more than me, but it’s my understanding that the Federal Government does not fund the portal on a daily or even weekly basis, the funds set aside for Medicaid are already set aside and do not count as new funding. Somebody in the government (probably somebody not considering the resignation offer) proceeded to shut down the already funded portal. The portal was restored yesterday, but is now acting buggy. It’s worth noting that the administration as well as many state officials were on the record yesterday stating that the freeze would not affect Medicaid or Head Start.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 23:09 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in 8 months of pay:
It’s worth noting that the administration as well as many state officials were on the record yesterday stating that the freeze would not affect Medicaid or Head Start.
Not originally, that was part of the midday walkback.
