r/USDA

Does anyone know if it has gotten easier to fire people within usda for conduct or performance? I know of many employees in our state who are acting like they are untouchable while others are carrying their weight and others. Conduct issues are through the roof and its widely known. If usda needed to reduce people, i don't see why they couldn't give power to supervisors to do what needs to be done. It's pretty embarrassing to know you work for an agency where you can royally screw up and are protected and even potentially promoted. It's killed the moral and im so sick of these people.

Nobody at my agency in leadership from immediate supervisor or anyone up the chain, has acknowledged or mentioned the stay issued by Judge Chhabria. It's totally bizarre. If I wasn't paying attention, I'd have no idea it was happening at all. Has anyone else's?

Do you all think the critical vacancy process is going to move forward regardless of court decisions? It seems to me that they could have continued with the critical vacancy regardless of the relocation outcome. Has anyone heard anything, what are your thoughts?

More disappointment, confusion and propaganda in the back-to-back meetings today!

HQ has made such a mess with the management scheme, and still they keep saying the research will remain the same line. But how can an animal scientist function in a plant lab? This was one example from the NEA meeting in past. They keep saying it is all about the research. No, it is not only about the research.

Joe continues avoiding and going around the important questions, while filling the airwaves with long, doughy answers that say a lot of words but really nothing. While he is sitting on his perch in Colorado, we are all here at Bville in agricultural purgatory, dealing with the consequences.

And wait, there is more...

Julie Long continues to skip over and sanitize questions for Hefe Joe. What a mess all of you have facilitated and enabled. As Joon the Loon said today: enable the enablers, and they will continue creating an unstable, hostile and suppressive work environment.

What a joke the “leadership” of the fpac business center is! We haven’t heard our dear leader Robert Ibarra’s voice in well over a year and today one of his deputies Tameka sends out an annual report (“happy new fiscal year!?”) for just one part of the organization (the part that doesn’t actually handle money). Trying to fill the void in leadership? Palace coup? We don’t want your drivel metrics about how you are meeting the presidents goal to “shrink the government.” Kick us while we are down why don’t you. We need you (or the Wizard of FPAC) to come out from behind the curtain and tell us what you are doing. But sending out lower level “accomplishments” for a fraction of the organization shows that you only care about preserving your standing in the administration, there’s no plan for anything and that maybe there’s something wrong with Robert. Has anyone that’s there in DC actually seen him? Because that’s the only thing that makes sense for him to be hiding. Or that he is feckless and clueless and doesn’t give a damn about his team.

supposedly the long-awaited details on the restructuring for ROs are coming next week.... it's all speculation and rumors and very little info at this point. does anyone know anything at all?

Since the new FY started yesterday, is it possible for those who have interviewed months or weeks ago to get a TJO?

Or is there a wait period before TJOs can be issued?