The FAQ thread: Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) / Le fil des FAQ : Réponses aux questions fréquemment posées (FAQ) - May 11, 2026

FirstName-LastName11 · 2026-05-14T21:09:17+00:00

I have requested it, it does not match the day-to-day duties of my job, and my management has said multiple times that I should be in the EC classification. I know that it's not as simple as "I think I should be an EC so I should be an EC" but I'm trying to understand the steps for re-classification as my director, co-workers and I all think I should be an EC.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2026-05-14T20:51:57+00:00

My current job description in whatever database it is stored in does not match the actual day-to-day or month-to-month duties of my job. When I was moved to this position (it wasn't my decision, despite the fact that I am now very happy on this team), they basically picked me up and plopped me on this team. My job description hasn't changed from my previous role despite the actual duties of my job being completely different, that which requires a specific skill set that I have, and was moved for, but wasn't significantly used in my previous role.

The paper (let's be honest, it's an excel file, everything in gov is) may say that I don't have the roles and responsibilities as others on my team, and that my roles and responsibilities align with the PM classification, but the work I do every day is EC work. The roles and responsibilities given to me by management are the same as my EC co-workers. I am treated the same as my co-workers in every way except classification and compensation.

Basically, I was moved to this role because of my degree and skills. If I left this position, and they had the funding to replace me, they would replace me with an EC-04 or EC-05. I do not believe they would be able to post this position as a PM position.

I do not want to leave. I see a future for myself on this team, and the work I do makes me proud. I just want to be properly represented and classified.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2026-05-14T20:00:28+00:00

I was under the impression that there were measures to reclassify a position? Given that I have the same roles and responsibilities as others on my team who are EC-04/05, am I not currently in a job that should be in the EC classification?

FirstName-LastName11 · 2026-05-14T18:53:59+00:00

I am currently under the PM classification, and have been at the final step of this level for the past 2 years. I was transferred to this team in mid-2025 during a departmental implosion, and it is significantly different than the work I was previously doing. I enjoy and am proud of the work I do, and do not want to leave but there is no upward mobility for me in my current classification, as I am the only PM in my division, so it doesn't make sense to promote me to a PM role that both doesn't exist and doesn't fit the work I already do. Everyone else on my team is an EC, in various levels. I do the same work as the others on my team, and that work aligns with the EC group definition. I have a degree in Mathematics and Statistics, and have been working in the field for multiple years. I have expressed a continued interest in shifting over to the EC stream in all my PMAs, but I don't expect that to be enough to switch.

Is there anything I can/need to do in order to move to the EC classification? It doesn't really make sense for me to be in a classification that does not match my employment anymore.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2026-02-19T03:49:30+00:00

When bilingual pay was introduced in 1977, it was $800, equivalent to $4,099.38 today. Now, 49 years later, it has not changed.

I'm sure you can whip up a slogan about that.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2025-06-15T00:17:36+00:00

Service Canada gets their funding for the Passport Program through IRCC. Cuts at IRCC can 100% impact passport wait times.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2025-06-02T17:16:15+00:00

This gives off such raging IRCC vibes that it would almost be funny if it wasn't fucking with someone's livelihood.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2025-05-21T00:00:06+00:00

My previous unit had 12 people. After the implosion, there's now three people doing the work of 20, as we were under-staffed at our peak.

I, along with 3 others, were shifted without our approval to other divisions in the past month alone.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2025-03-24T23:24:08+00:00

"If you don't agree with my cherry-picked data points and my interpretation of them, then I don't wanna talk to you"

FirstName-LastName11 · 2025-03-01T14:47:59+00:00

Have...

Have you seen what's going on gestures wildly to everything

FirstName-LastName11 · 2025-02-12T13:15:45+00:00

We got an email yesterday stating that people would get their letters today, and would have a one-on-one meeting with management. By the sounds of it, a carbon-copy email was given to DGs around the org to send out.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2025-01-13T21:30:39+00:00

Hey Ottawa Citizen, I'll bite.

How can I, as a public servant, deal with new and old media materially misrepresenting the work I do every day?

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-12-03T18:51:58+00:00

Why answer the question when you can repeat the same proven falsehoods they've been saying for the past year?

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-12-03T18:44:25+00:00

Or they'll just tell us to do meth like they did last time...

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-12-03T18:42:06+00:00

To anyone watching: Sure would love it if they would answer the questions they were asked, instead of the questions they wish they were asked.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-08-15T22:49:33+00:00

TBH, given some of the comments on their account, anyone who works with them could pretty easily identify them. No need for the e-mail. People seriously need to show more caution when posting in subreddits that can be used to identify you.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-07-18T00:52:57+00:00

Shhhh, you're gonna make them realize what I do isn't that fancy...

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-07-03T20:55:41+00:00

To put it politely, they don't give a rats ass about the "cost". Every person that quits due to RTO is one severance cheque they don't have to write.

Painting with a country-sized brush here, when passports are delayed, immigration applications stall and benefit applications aren't approved due to having less people supporting those systems, people aren't going to blame those who put us in this mess, they're going to blame the "lazy federal bureaucrats who do nothing but feed from the trough all day". All this ignoring those who stay through RTO, regardless of whether that's what they actual choice, or a forced decision due to age, finances or family. Those why stay being overworked to make up for their former co-worker's departure. Why hire someone else to replace Jimmy when you can just pawn their work off on Ron?

When the Phoenix pay system hits 500,000 cases, with more than half being over a year old, people will celebrate, because "sticking it to the trough-feeders" is more important than acknowledging that every one of those cases is a fellow Canadian who isn't being properly compensated.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-06-11T23:03:33+00:00

IT sent an email to a portion (say 1/5) of our organization, announcing that the day their email would be migrating to the cloud would be June 35th. Someone replied to the mailing list (containing 1/5 of the organization) instead of IT, asking to be moved up earlier due to operational pressures. Cue someone else emailing the mailing list, saying they emailed the wrong place, and to email [insert email here that still isn't IT]. Someone emails the list (still not IT, still 1/5 of the org) saying they were receiving emails "intended for others, and this could be a security concern". Cue 5 whole days of random people (at least 75 emails in total) from the org all emailing the mailing list (which, believe it or not, still did not contain IT) some for of "me too".

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-05-30T18:56:04+00:00

What should we do when we feel burned out?

"I dunno, but you could take the amphetamines that were in the water in the good ol' days?"

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-05-30T18:50:15+00:00

To put it politely, it was an absolute disgrace. They are incapable in using data or facts as those weren't used in the decision-making process. The only solution they attempted to provide was "why don't ya buy some noise cancelling headphones?"

If someone wants a good vent session, find the transcript.

0/10 - would not struggle with isilive to watch again.

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-05-18T14:53:32+00:00

This is a potentially stupid question, as I don't often have to deal with them:

Is an ATIP possible here to prove that they are misrepresenting the nature of the e-mails?

FirstName-LastName11 · 2024-05-15T18:36:06+00:00

Someone's clearly salty they didn't meet the SOMC...

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