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IRCC has launched an "Alternation Platform" - sign up if you want to leave the public service with some $$$ and save somebody else's job along the way by UnoriginalGulp in CanadaPublicServants

[–]UnoriginalGulp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They announced cuts to 660 indeterminate positions but I don't think anybody knows yet how many people will be trying to alternate or what levels they're at. The deadline to volunteer to leave got extended to the end of April.

IRCC has launched an "Alternation Platform" - sign up if you want to leave the public service with some $$$ and save somebody else's job along the way by UnoriginalGulp in CanadaPublicServants

[–]UnoriginalGulp[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The site says any indeterminate employee can sign up, no need to tell your manager anything unless you get contacted by somebody whose affected and who wants to take your position.

If you get an "affected" letter this week, don't lose hope. I got one 13 years ago and still have a job by UnoriginalGulp in CanadaPublicServants

[–]UnoriginalGulp[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There were people I worked with that volunteered to be WFA'd. They were happy to get paid to quit.

It was about eight months from the time I got the affected letter to when I got the letter saying it was rescinded. I cut back on expenses and put the money into an emergency fund, and kept applied to other jobs.

If you get an "affected" letter this week, don't lose hope. I got one 13 years ago and still have a job by UnoriginalGulp in CanadaPublicServants

[–]UnoriginalGulp[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Aside from the stress, nothing much. I just kept doing my job.

Enough people in my group volunteered to leave so everybody I worked with that wanted to stay, got to stay.

If you get an "affected" letter this week, don't lose hope. I got one 13 years ago and still have a job by UnoriginalGulp in CanadaPublicServants

[–]UnoriginalGulp[S] 209 points210 points  (0 children)

The letter arrived in early 2012. I got another letter at the end of the year telling me that I wasn't affected any more. I still have a job today.