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Agriculture Specialist. Providing a critical role in the Department of Homeland Security, CBP agriculture specialists possess specialized skill sets they use to prevent the introduction of harmful exotic plant pests and foreign animal diseases, and potential ag/bio-terrorism into the United States. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Quoted: USDA doesn't employ ag specialists, DHS does. Ag specialists are already understaffed by 30% to 50% depending on staffing model applied. Couple that with DHS cant manage to hire new hires with required degrees for a large number of reasons, and while attrition is running maybe 5% yearly(which is 100 bodies) they only manage to hire 80. Been that way for YEARS(hence the massive shortfall of bodies). Add in that 33k yearly for a job that requires a 4 year degree and suddenly a job that literally pays 30% less than average entry level for biology degree holders (50K) pay isn't so attractive. Bullshit Artist |
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Do they have purdy mouthes? We Kansas City folk like us some purdy mouthes.
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I would 100% rather live in Kansas City than DC. I would take a pay cut to move from DC to KC.
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Good for me. I'm going to try to get hired at the new location.
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It would be about a 10% pay cut due the change in locality pay. Although it would be more than offset by the lower cost of living. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I would 100% rather live in Kansas City than DC. I would take a pay cut to move from DC to KC. Worst traffic in KC metro is only 1/4 as shitty as daily traffic in DC. KC has a great night life/music/etc. scene. They are crazy not to move. |
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The number is the official reported number and the most accurate number available even if it was highly fudged. The census workers made up 25,000 of the 34,000 jobs. Even though they are temporary they are still government employees and government created jobs. A 150,000 job increase is what was expected. The number came in at only 130,000. If you take away the 25,000 temporary worker jobs that means the jobs created was actually 105,000 compared to the expected 150,000. Which points to Trump's economy being weaker than he claims. That isn't NeverTrumping, those are just a discussion on the numbers the government released. A lot of negative economic indicators appeared in August. I hope they are just a glitch in the numbers due to restructuring and September is back to better than expected numbers. View Quote |
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I would 100% rather live in Kansas City than DC. I would take a pay cut to move from DC to KC. View Quote |
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I would 100% rather live in Kansas City than DC. I would take a pay cut to move from DC to KC. View Quote FWIW, I like D.C. and have visited there many times. I've even wondered what it would be like to live there. Value judgements aside, the two cities definitely offer a different experience and it's not surprising that some folks might prefer one over the other. |
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The job left. They are welcome to stay in DC and will even get priority placement in another agency.
The former happens with regularity in the real world. The latter doesn’t exist in the private sector. Expecting sympathy is a waste of time for everyone but the low information “orange man bad” crowd. |
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Quoted: Yes if 2/3s quit KC dodged a bullet. View Quote On the bright side, this is a good chance to cut the size of the Ag Department, and to drop the pay grade of gapped jobs from GS-13/14/15 to GS-6/7/8. GS-14s and 15s are few and far between outside of DC. |
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Yep. The down side to moving fed departments is that it only metastasizes the cancer of liberalism. Some of them might be good conservatives that are grateful fo the chance to leave the cesspool that is DC, but they're few and far between outside of DoD. View Quote |
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they are no better than any other person who has lost a job or been given a decision to move to keep their job or go somewhere else.goverment workers think they are entitled and above the regular working person
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The private sector moves jobs around all the time. Boo freak'n hoo.
Just be glad you haven't been offshored to India. |
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Want sympathy?
Look elsewhere. Welcome to the real world. Now, move the BATFE to Barrow Alaska. That would be amazing. And the economy of Barrow could use a boost I'm sure. |
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Do you have any idea how hard it is to learn to code as a 55 year old trans person? Or a 30-something PhD who isn't too bright? These folks can barely work their radios to listen to WAMU public radio through the tears. And OMG kansas city???? That's like practically the moon, it only has several million people, pro sports teams, art museums, and a busy international airport. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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if they dont want to move they can learn to code. And OMG kansas city???? That's like practically the moon, it only has several million people, pro sports teams, art museums, and a busy international airport. The others . . . well, the self-mutilator has discovered that the surgery didn't change anything he had more than skin deep while the PHD moron still moved out to where the FDA was moving to. What exactly did he gain by quitting? We have moved states three times. I have been away from home for 30+ days at a time . . . 8 times in the past 21 years. Overall my sympathy is extremely limited. |
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"Next month, Johnson, a 28-year-veteran of the U.S. Agriculture Department who most recently led its program on climate change, will quit her job..." Boo fucking hoo! Also, article went on to state that almost 2/3rds of the employees are quitting vs relocating. Ok. The current administration moving branches out of DC and to the areas they're responsible for overseeing is EPIC. Guess they're doing this with the BLM too, booting them from DC and spreading the office types out around the shitty parts of the west, forcing them to interact with the people vs be disconnected in DC. I love it! View Quote I'm liking this too. |
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The locality adjustment to the GS pay scale is very high for the D.C. area.
It makes sense to move agencies to less expensive locales. |
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Gosh, I really do not care.
And what does the fact that the protagonist of the story is "transitioning" have to do with anything. Garbage "news." |
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I was working for GM when they came thru and announced that all salaried employees were history. I survived, but my 30 and out retirement didn't.
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Brilliant move.
Moving as far away from DC as possible is best for the agency. The foul that is the swamp diminishes with distance from the Washington Monument. |
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What is the most polite and politically correct way to say, “Fuck all you fucking fuckers”?
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What they mean by "tearing life apart" means -- they will no longer have $130k/year jobs where they leave the office at 3pm and produce nothing of value. I've lived and worked in DC for 30 year, worked for the DoD and trust me; you could cut 40% of govt and nothing would happen. I left the DoD because i was so bored with doing nothing, that it was painful. I would sit at a gorgeous office and browse the internet for 7 hours a day. It was too much after a while. MOST of my friends work for the Govt and they got Masters and PHD's WHILE AT WORK. Thats how little work they do. Tell me, what other work do you have so much spare time that you can get a Masters DURING work? View Quote The fed is very bloated and could cut MANY employees. Starting with non-producing people like these. |
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Please observe as I play the world's tiniest violin while simultaneously drinking an ice cold Coca-Cola.
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You've never been to Missouri, have you? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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https://www.inkansascity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/LGTS_1247-best.jpg They got off easy. Should have moved them to garden city ks. View Quote |
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Don't you remember...? The govt shut down for over a month and nothing bad happened. A few people whined about not getting checks and some TSA flunkies quit. The fed is very bloated and could cut MANY employees. Starting with non-producing people like these. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What they mean by "tearing life apart" means -- they will no longer have $130k/year jobs where they leave the office at 3pm and produce nothing of value. I've lived and worked in DC for 30 year, worked for the DoD and trust me; you could cut 40% of govt and nothing would happen. I left the DoD because i was so bored with doing nothing, that it was painful. I would sit at a gorgeous office and browse the internet for 7 hours a day. It was too much after a while. MOST of my friends work for the Govt and they got Masters and PHD's WHILE AT WORK. Thats how little work they do. Tell me, what other work do you have so much spare time that you can get a Masters DURING work? The fed is very bloated and could cut MANY employees. Starting with non-producing people like these. |
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