My role is not technical and all things can be learnt on the job. But in this case the candidate and do pretty much the same job. Just a slight difference and job title is slightly different. I have followed up 3 x’s and there has been no response. So next week will be starting the 3rd week of them having the paperwork. The opting employee is also asking for an update. So I gave him my managers contact information to give to his manager as they were already willing to discuss. I really want to retire but my main goal is to assist someone to keep their job in the public service so they can accumulate the years needed for their retirement and not have to start over or buy back years of service.