With the September 2 rule changes coming, I'm curious how much of this is actually being felt inside agencies vs just being news noise.
Any RIF rumors where you work? Closed door meetings, hiring freezes, sudden performance rating crackdowns? Or is it all still just headlines so far?
8,000 reclassified in June. White House wants more.MSPB appeals gone. Whistleblower complaints handled internally."Moving relatively fast," per one State Dept employee.
9/2 is the date. Read the rule. Draw your own conclusions.
Wheeler called it a "fishing expedition" — no stated scope, no stated allegations.Second union member removed from duty at the agency since the current administration took over.CFPB headcount is down from 1,750 to 1,071 in about a year and a half.
Saw this on FedScoop and had to share with y'all.
Pete Waterman, the director of FedRAMP over at GSA, got put on administrative leave because he said on LinkedIn that veterans' preference in hiring is "brutally unfair when taken to the extreme." He was talking about how they can't even look at civilian candidates for cybersecurity jobs until they've made offers to every veteran who applies — even if the vets don't have cloud experience.
Now I'm not here to argue for or against veterans' preference. I respect anyone who served. But here's what gets me: the guy was telling the truth about a broken system, and within days he's on leave. GSA came out saying they "completely disagree" and have "zero tolerance" for comments that "disrespect" veterans.
Since when did stating a factual problem become "disrespectful"?
I spent 18 years in federal service. I've seen this movie a hundred times. You point out something that's broken, and the system finds a way to silence you. Doesn't matter if you're right. What matters is whether you made someone above you uncomfortable.
Is this what it's come to? Senior career people can't even speak honestly about hiring on their personal LinkedIn without getting thrown under the bus?
Curious what folks in this community think. Have any of you seen or experienced this kind of retaliation for speaking up about internal problems?
我不是在寻求法律建议，只是想听听个人故事。我已经考虑了一段时间——不是刑事问题，只是数千万的浪费，似乎没有人关心——我在犹豫这件事是否值得麻烦。
对于那些真的做了这件事的人：值吗？有什么实际改变吗？老实说，报复有多严重？
Not looking for legal advice, just personal stories. I've been sitting on something for a while—nothing criminal, just tens of millions in waste that nobody seems to care about—and I'm going back and forth on whether it's worth the hassle.
For those who actually went through with it: was it worth it? Did anything actually change? And how bad was the retaliation, honestly?