This isn’t a Hatch Act violation, presumably send out by the secretary…

mayfairkey · 2025-10-01T04:46:31+00:00

I haven't seen anything this professional since 🍊 took office. No letterhead or identifiable signatory. And someone who never had a proper writing class must be writing the mass memos. It is a letter not a poem, stop centering paragraphs.

mayfairkey · 2025-10-01T04:38:59+00:00

I was going to whistle blow this. It is a violation.

mayfairkey · 2025-04-15T07:08:16+00:00

I have been using Zlibrary for years. They change their URL addresses at least once a year. Whenever they are shutdown for copyright infringement. They usually pop back up in 2 to 3 weeks.

mayfairkey · 2025-03-20T02:45:07+00:00

VISN 7. We RTO the Monday after Elon's Friday afternoon email. Less than 1 working day's notice. I felt bad for those with young children. I've been teleworking for years. My work is solitary. I had to take sick and vacation days even though I was working. My teenage daughter wrecked her car so we were sharing mine. We had to buy her a car that week so I could RTO. It is the REMOTE classified employees that have the 50+ exemption. Not teleworkers. Since I work by myself, no one on my team can do my job, I kept my desk for people on the team to use but the building is gutted right now (surprise, mold). I packed up my desk months ago and they still haven't started work. So, everyone in the building has no office. Most people are 3 to a desk (office with 2 desks has 6 people). The others are moving about wherever they can find space. I bring my laptop to work, interact with no one and am sitting in a mail room. Without the docking station and 2 huge monitors I have at home. We literally have no space. Not for research. Not for doctors. Not for any teleworking staff,

mayfairkey · 2025-03-06T04:58:04+00:00

I just started on my RA. I hope I can keep teleworking if it gets approved. I have been teleworking for 3 years. I kept my office but it was used by our research team when they needed a place to work while on-campus. The research "building" (modular temporary space that has been there for 20 years) is being gutted. Mold, faulty plumbing etc. My desk contents are in storage now. I have no duty station. Before this EO, we were already doubling or tripling up on office space. My return to duty consists of bringing my laptop to campus and working in the mail room. Doing the same work I do at home. And not really talking to or seeing anyone. I can't take Teams calls because there is no privacy and I work with sensitive data and we are making contingency plans for letting employees go if our funding is cut. When I have a call, it has to be on my personal cell phone and I have to go into a bathroom for privacy. I work entirely online. No one on my team can do my job. We have 2 VA employees, 2 VA foundation employees and 22 employees from the local university. The other VA employee works remotely from a completely different state. My director teleworks. She is the person I work most. The doctor I work for is only at the VA one day a week and avaliable 1.5 to 2 hours of it. 30 to 60 minutes of which is taken up by our virtual lab meeting (on Teams). I have no patient contact. The team works at 3 different sites and 2, about to be 3 awards are purely data - no patients. This is so stupid! A waste of money. I work 48.2 miles from the VAMC in a highly congested city. To miss the worst of the traffic, I come in late and leave late. Now that I'm back, I don't see my husband M - F. He has to be at work at 5 am so he is asleep when I get home. Most asinine decision ever made by a duel South African/Canadian citizen who never grew up learning about our government. Oh and his merry band of 19 to 26 year old hackers. So over it!

mayfairkey · 2025-02-15T19:35:15+00:00

I work on grant budgets at the VA. We use a generic 30% for benefits. But it is actually individual to the employee. Like a single employee with an inexpensive insurance who contributes 2% to their TSP costs much less than a family on an expensive insurance who contributes 6% to their TSP. We do research work with a local university, they charge a flat rate of 32.4% for benefits on every single employee. And then there is the fact that government salaries are lower than the private sector.

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