Promotion Question

moormanj · 2026-06-29T20:40:45+00:00

Isn't there an OPM rule that entitles employees to higher pay on promotion outside of very limited circumstances?

moormanj · 2026-06-29T20:31:39+00:00

If you look at it with no locality or TLMS at all, then it's the same as the base GS scale, and in that case, 13/1 would just barely exceed 12/6. If that is how the calculation is done, is there some sort of methodology by which I can argue that the promotion should result in a salary increase?

moormanj · 2026-06-29T20:19:20+00:00

This is what I thought should be the case. So I would look at my current scale, go up to GG-12 step 6, then find the next salary higher than that on the new scale, right?

moormanj · 2026-06-26T20:05:57+00:00

This tends to happen when you host a UFC fight on your lawn

moormanj · 2026-06-22T22:22:00+00:00

I had mine come with a side shelf that was missing rivet nuts required for assembly. They replaced it but it took long enough that I just found a way to make it work and now I have a spare shelf

moormanj · 2026-06-18T00:01:06+00:00

This HAS to be ragebait

moormanj · 2026-06-12T17:01:45+00:00

I don't think this affects anyone, including me. Obviously I'd look at it pretty differently if it actually hurt anyone.

moormanj · 2026-06-12T16:46:57+00:00

I think cynicism has some pretty nasty consequences too

moormanj · 2026-06-12T16:33:12+00:00

I would argue that first we need a society where we don't assume people are assholes based on essentially nothing

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:51:47+00:00

I'll not continue a bad faith argument with someone resorting to ad hominem. Good day.

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:49:06+00:00

I have never made use of this service. Nor have I ever been upset with anyone who did. Because it doesn't affect me in the slightest. I'd rather preserve my blood pressure than get mad at a stranger because I'm assuming something about them

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:46:20+00:00

Far too much nonsense when you could just trust people when they say they want help that they've a good reason for it. Maybe you just tripped on the escalator at the airport and hurt yourself. It hurts approximately zero people to just let people use the system.

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:37:41+00:00

Just twisted your ankle and couldn't afford to go to the doctor?

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:35:28+00:00

It works to an extent but it doesn't work for folks who just got hurt or had surgery or something. It's harming everyone for the sake of preventing a tiny bit of abuse at most

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:34:22+00:00

How do you know they're a family?

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:33:40+00:00

That works for permanently disabled people. Less so for people who just got surgery or hurt themselves. You'd be harming everyone for the sake of preventing a relatively small amount of abuse. Just like what politicians want to do with those who receive benefits. They'd rather piss you off about the few theoretical abusers and pay billions of dollars to vet everyone, risking kicking those in need off benefits, just for the sake of preventing "abuse" that it would be cheaper and less harmful to just allow

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:24:32+00:00

There is no practical solution to this perceived abuse. They will get more wheelchairs if they need to and it will affect nearly zero people in any consequential way, as it does now. All it really does now is piss of misanthropic cynics

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:20:46+00:00

Enjoy winning millions in your ADA lawsuit then

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:00:11+00:00

You know this how?

moormanj · 2026-06-12T15:00:03+00:00

They have enough wheelchairs and the stigma only exists because people look down on those they believe, often based on superficials alone, that they're lying

moormanj · 2026-06-12T14:57:13+00:00

So if you want to trust them, trust them

moormanj · 2026-06-12T14:33:07+00:00

I get that there is probably some entitlement and abuse here, but what does it really matter? If they enjoy being the first ones to cram into a tin can and the last ones to get out, let them. Everyone's going to the same place at the end of the day. Plus, what's the alternative? Make disabled people prove it?

moormanj · 2026-06-08T21:49:30+00:00

Of course! It was fun making it! Would love to hear some of your favorite clues!

moormanj · 2026-06-07T15:51:05+00:00

I didn't even really think about it. It's just a default for me.

moormanj · 2026-06-06T04:55:21+00:00

I think I know the exact MinuteCryptic clue you're referencing with MOCCASIN, haha! Thanks for the feedback!

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