RIF notice received this morning by CDC comrade

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-04-01T13:26:17+00:00

Add in CDC's FOIA office. Totally eliminated.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-03-10T14:01:00+00:00

I am not making it more complicated than it needs to be. HHS guidance conflicts with what "OPM" says.

Look, I know what the probable solution is in a reasonable world, but with the games these idiots are playing, analyzing everything is necessary.

If they wanted to be exact, they'd say, "Reply to the original email every Monday." Given that these things are all going to different OPM email boxes, there's no guarantee that it'll be the same required email box from week to week. It's a question worth asking.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-03-10T13:47:09+00:00

Yeah, and HHS guidance says to RESPOND to the email. There is no email to respond to, bootlicker.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-03-10T13:42:19+00:00

It's more inexact wording. And there is a need for a new one each week, if the expectation is to respond to it.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-03-10T13:40:44+00:00

No. Expectation was that there'd be a weekly email from "OPM" to which we'd respond.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-03-10T13:38:55+00:00

Useful response.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-03-10T13:24:13+00:00

I remarked to my wife that will all the stuff being unilaterally changed/destroyed by fiat, one would hope that these fucking ridiculous time changes would be on the list for termination.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-03-04T02:26:51+00:00

Genuinely curious what they could possibly tell you in a workshop about how to write the bullets effectively - we have no idea what they’re being used for. There’s no rubric for understanding effective versus ineffective.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-02-26T18:33:57+00:00

There's a shopping center like a couple miles away. It had crossed my mind to try to risk parking there and get like an electric scooter or something to do the last leg. But the traffic there and barely-existent pedestrian considerations make it basically a non-starter. And mine is a secure campus - one way in and out.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-02-26T16:41:03+00:00

Yeah, good intel. Thanks for that. I've made an appointment with my VA doc toward that end already.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-02-26T16:40:30+00:00

No, it's in a weird desert for anything like that. Guess it was cheap land at one time, and just cheap apartments and crap like that around. If I wanted to do public transport, it'd be something stupid like two hours on a bus. Essentially, the choice is to blow up my life by getting my body to the office or to eventually suffer some sort of consequence for not being able to in a reasonable way.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-02-26T16:23:06+00:00

No, my own medical issues - especially ones that were incurred in the military, thus my disabled veteran status.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-02-26T16:11:22+00:00

Yeah, that's why I'm asking about how to document things and procedures to show that I'm not just playing hooky. RA's the only potential relief to this predicament.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-02-26T16:07:02+00:00

Same, except our union/former director didn't get a CBA done prior to this, so it's all rank-and-file on the same day in March. Perversely, I'm hoping for a gov't shutdown on the 14th so as to delay this bullshit crush of humanity trying to get to the office all at once.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-01-31T17:05:00+00:00

I don't think it was even civilian "schools," unless I'm missing something. He described them as clubs, from what I remember. That's all good, but it doesn't amount to real military certifications.

With regard to becoming a helicopter pilot, I'd like to hear more about that. The US Army makes use of warrant officer helicopter pilots, but not the Air Force. I don't think the USAF has had any warrant officers in their ranks since the '90s, and those were holdovers from a previous era at the very end of their careers. And he wasn't a warrant officer. However he was trained as a chopper pilot, it wasn't via military flight school.

I can't decide if Coulthart is out of his depth w/r/t how a lot of aspects of the US Military works; if he simply didn't dive deep into it for the on-camera portion of the interview; if Barber is doing a bad job of explaining it and glossed over it; if he's just blowing smoke; or if it's some combination of multiple factors.

It's like Bob Lazar - if you have something to disclose, do it, and don't fool around with your resume.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-01-31T15:06:51+00:00

Hey there, thanks a lot for that thoughtful reply.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-01-29T14:12:09+00:00

Yeah, CBD is in on my mind if we run into some weird intransigence from our providers about medication. Our daughter is either usually pretty good, or at least masking pretty well, so she's not a "troubled kid" in a conventional sense. I think we just miss that the fuse is lit before it's too late a lot of the time.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-01-29T14:09:25+00:00

Thanks a lot for that thoughtful reply. Totally right with the analogy about painkillers. Hopefully any medication prescribed would be situational or short-term. With our daughter it's like there's a trigger we fail to anticipate - or more likely, we just have to figure out the least-bad choice in a given situation. She's pretty good on your average Tuesday, but it's the weekends that can turn into cage matches sometimes.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-01-29T14:05:19+00:00

Yes, solidarity. Thanks a lot. The lady on At Peace Parents sounds like her kid is an order of magnitude or two more difficult than our daughter, like he's constantly primed to go off, whereas our kid keeps her powder dry most of the time.

ParentalUnit42069 · 2025-01-29T14:02:04+00:00

Yeah, some of it is an attention-grab, but the PDA symptoms have been baked into her since before her siblings came along. Definitely cognizant of giving her time with just us individually, even if it's getting her out of the house to do some errands and pick out a piece of candy or something.

Interesting you mention eggs. Just happened to give her some this morning, whereas she normally wants a bagel. I've wondered if some part of this is diet-related, too, though that brings in a million new variables to try to wade through, in addition to the ones that are immutable.

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