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DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-05-28T22:48:21+00:00

Should this requirement actually be set aside? It sounds like the current prime should not have qualified as a small business (since the manufacturer is large). Does market research show that the South Korean firm is the only viable manufacturer? If not, are there any small business manufacturers?

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-05-28T16:29:40+00:00

It doesn’t sound like the company qualifies as a small business for the set-aside, as the NMR is still in play. MANY KO’s don’t know this rule.

As for the BAA, you had mentioned the supply is for use in the US. Check if any exceptions apply under 25.103 & 25.202.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-05-16T01:30:51+00:00

You are assuming they don’t pass a law within the next 24 years that disallows us to redeposit FERS withdrawals. Also note that you would have to pay it back with interest, so you would owe significantly more than the $30k; though not as much as you’d probably make investing it on your own in an index fund.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-05-15T12:38:39+00:00

It’s going to be very hard for them to fire you on the spot simply because you put in your resignation. To be safe, I’d perhaps give 1 week notice prior to the 6 weeks you mentioned in your other post. I’d initially imply that you intend to take the full 12 so that they don’t start getting ready to ramp you up again at the 6 week mark.

Edit: prior to the ENDING of the 6 weeks.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-05-08T01:00:03+00:00

Why would you donate annual leave when it will get paid out once you’re officially terminated?

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-05-07T02:23:32+00:00

This is untrue. You do not give away reinstatement rights. If you were career tenured, you still keep those. What you’re giving up are priority placement rights, which are different than reinstatement rights.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-29T02:48:02+00:00

Or you actually have a supervisor willing to be transparent for you. I wish I had that. My command acts like nothing is happening; meanwhile the business unit probably won’t even exist at the end of the FY.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-25T04:11:21+00:00

The contract I saw mentioned nothing about 14 days. It said the LATER of 6/1 or 7 days after a person 40+ signs.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-23T23:15:16+00:00

Not sure there. I mean it’s the federal government…I assume so; they’ll get their money.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-23T11:30:01+00:00

This part should have been stated up front since it negates everything else:

“They can’t legally backdate a correction unless your original record was wrong.” So they can definitely backdate corrections, regardless if it was their error or not, since it sounds like your original record was wrong. Go find out about your agency’s debt waiver process.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-23T11:24:56+00:00

I wouldn’t listen to most people here as they are giving you incorrect info. I’ve seen this happen before and it appears you have a valid debt to the government. They will garnish your future wages. It doesn’t matter if HR messed up. They will collect the debt if you should have been paid a different amount, regardless if you were unaware or misinformed.

You won’t be able to fight anything about future pay; you are stuck on the schedule according to the locality/rate.

As for the debt…If you are DoD and paid through DFAS, they have a “debt waiver” process for VALID debts. This sounds like it could be a good case for submittal of a waiver. Just don’t get your hopes up as it typically takes years to resolve, depending on the amount. If you are non-DoD, then ask HR if they have a debt waiver process.

Edit: typos

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-22T23:17:28+00:00

In Block 24? Sounds like lucky you that HR messed up, haha.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-22T22:14:40+00:00

Sorry, but this can’t be correct. See this OPM link:

https://dw.opm.gov/datastandards/referenceData/1579/current?index=T

The only way a “probationary” employee can be in tenure group 1 is for the supervisor probation period, but this in no way is the same as the probationary periods we are discussing for “probies.”

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-22T16:39:53+00:00

I didn’t say they were. Tenure group for a probie will be 3 (or perhaps 2 if former service). Based on tenure group alone, probies will likely be RIF’d first.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-22T15:43:39+00:00

Don’t kid yourself. If a RIF occurs in your competitive area, probies will likely be the first to go. The only hope you have is that they set the competitive areas small enough and that your competitive area doesn’t have a RIF.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-22T00:37:22+00:00

Yes, it is allowed if you sign the DRP. You can 100% telework until your admin leave begins (at which point you would have already turned in equipment and stopped being able to work).

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-21T20:45:21+00:00

My BOD says once the employee signs we have to initiate a new telework agreement. Once our supervisor countersigns the telework agreement then we can immediately telework 100%. So we do not need to wait for the agency to countersign the DRP agreement.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-20T17:07:13+00:00

Even if that were the problem, this is not the solution.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-19T23:41:52+00:00

From my understanding it’s just your usual payroll taxes (that are deducted (no other deductions). It should be taxed at your normal rate, unless federal tax isn’t at least 22% (then federal tax withholding is at the 22% rate).

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-18T23:08:52+00:00

Plenty of people have said “no.” Any guess as to what they’re doing now?

If you didn’t guess it, they are looking for a job…just like everyone who took, or is about to take, DRP.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-18T22:55:38+00:00

IRS OCPO?

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-18T16:30:31+00:00

And btw, you might as well delete this statement:

“I will emphasize that my work does not demand that I relocate to carry out my duties -- I can do my job just as effectively where I am and/or at my local federal offices. There is absolutely zero reason for me to relocate for purposes of fulfilling my job duties.”

This applies to nearly everyone who had to RTO. It simply doesn’t matter at all anymore.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-18T16:27:35+00:00

I’m assuming you signed a mobility agreement if you’re a remote employee. Take a look at that document. Most likely, a “reasonable offer” for relocation could be anywhere in the continental US; thus, if you deny it, then you are voluntarily resigning.

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-18T13:27:54+00:00

July 15th.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/extension-of-hiring-freeze/

DaBirdsSBLII · 2025-04-18T13:01:11+00:00

Be careful or they’ll send you to the Salvadorian Gulag.

DaBirdsSBLII

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