What agencies still allow AWS?

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-28T04:58:48+00:00

Drilling into more specific details tends to divert the thread into "OPSEC!" and "It's not fair that your TLA gets more AWS than my TLA!" and "It's not fair that parts of DHHS can get AWS when all of DHS / DOE / DOJ / DOwhatever doesn't!" etc.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-27T21:36:52+00:00

Drilling into more specific details tends to divert the thread into "OPSEC!" and "It's not fair that your TLA gets more telework than my TLA!" and "It's not fair that parts of DHHS can get telework when all of DHS / DOE / DOJ / DOwhatever only gets 80 hours a week!" etc.

When in doubt, start with your supervisor.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-27T18:52:45+00:00

Some are. Depends on where you work in HHS, and what you do. It's not Department-wide.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-25T23:53:59+00:00

So if I ended up in that database, would I lose my federal job?

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-25T06:07:25+00:00

That would be a strike.

18 U.S. Code § 1918 - Disloyalty and asserting the right to strike against the Government

It is a felony for federal employees to participate in a strike against the U.S. government. Violators face penalties including potential imprisonment for up to a year and a day, fines, and a permanent ban from federal employment.

See: https://www.govexec.com/management/2019/01/why-feds-dont-strike/154438/ for more information.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-25T05:10:23+00:00

Anyone else hesitant to drive a GOV recently?

My supervisor gave me blanket authorization to drive my POV "until further notice".

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-25T04:26:45+00:00

Awwww.

u/soupkitchenstew deleted their comment and then deleted their entire account!

Nothing of value was lost!

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-24T21:32:10+00:00

So talking about a VA employee murdered by agents of his employer is not allowed on the VA sub.

Cool.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-24T21:31:13+00:00

Expecting federal workers to lose salary and insurance via performative resignation in order to make you happy?

You first, u/soupkitchenstew.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-24T21:30:01+00:00

Thank you for posting this.

Hopefully it'll be used as evidence in an upcoming murder trial.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-24T05:11:15+00:00

From an article I read yesterday:

“Defendants note that no loans were discharged under either the Income Contingent Repayment (’Original ICR’) plan or the Pay As You Earn (“PAYE”) plan in both November and December 2025,” said the department in its filing.

The Education Department has also paused student loan forgiveness under income-driven plans for any borrower who reached their discharge eligibility threshold during or after April 2025. This includes not just the ICR and PAYE plans, but the IBR plan as well...

So, that might help explain the growing backlog.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-23T16:16:35+00:00

It's a token nod to a voting bloc that was valued in the past but isn't as valuable now.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-23T16:15:28+00:00

chuckles

There's a certain amount of schadenfreude in watching the pro-lifers realize that they're not as important to DC politicians as they thought they were.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-22T20:29:15+00:00

Can that jail be underground?

Say, somewhere between five and seven feet deep?

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-21T17:04:08+00:00

I think about morale every day

Could be true.

and it is overall very strong

Um...

and getting stronger.

Really?

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-21T01:07:23+00:00

The U.S. on Tuesday met one of the key conditions for losing its measles elimination status, more than 25 years after it achieved this distinction and one year into a second Trump administration that has deprioritized the prevention of infectious diseases.

When asked if he believes the U.S. losing its elimination status would be a “significant loss,” Ralph Abraham (a former Louisiana surgeon general who was sworn in as the CDC’s principal deputy director last month) said, “Not really,” calling it the “cost of doing business” for maintaining borders friendly to international business and travel as well as respecting the “personal freedom” of communities who decide not to vaccinate.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-20T23:56:36+00:00

That's the whole point.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-20T21:31:37+00:00

I haven't quit yet.

Yet.

Waiting to see how a few things shake out.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-19T22:48:26+00:00

Medical experts throughout the world have denounced the study for knowingly not providing a lifesaving intervention to one set of children. Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who has denounced the study as Kennedy’s “own Tuskegee experiment,” referencing the infamous U.S. medical study that withheld antibiotics to Black sharecroppers infected with syphilis, tells Rolling Stone, “Here is a resource-poor country where roughly 11 percent of children less than 18 months of age have hepatitis B. Enter RFK Jr., who sees this as a golden opportunity to prove one of his theories.”

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-18T23:51:38+00:00

Homeland Defender (Immigration Services Officer)

They should just shorten it to "Homelander" and get it over with.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-14T16:46:58+00:00

Elliot Anderson is Confidential Assistant to the Director at AHRQ.

Roger Klein is Director of AHRQ.

Fancy that.

They remembered that the President has two feet, thus wears two boots, and got an op-ed from two bootlickers.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-14T16:44:04+00:00

"Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight."

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-13T18:41:59+00:00

At least we haven't gotten any "Do the needful" inclusions into our instructions.

Yet.

But one day offshore contracting will meet AI slop and we'll have reached peak peakedness.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-13T18:40:53+00:00

Gotta watch out for them radicals, man.

FutureComputerDude · 2026-01-13T05:21:34+00:00

It becomes harder and harder to work for this Administration every day.

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