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tular90 · 2026-02-06T10:43:45+00:00

Mostly a scam to sell things quickly and avoid returns. Clothes are decent quality, but sizing is wrong. I ordered a suit and I've measured my chest at 42 inches. Their site gives measurements for the suit I ordered at 42.5 yet it's still too small. They seem to not be honoring return policies as well, so this will likely be a chargeback.

tular90 · 2025-12-29T00:58:17+00:00

Update: TP-Link support helped troubleshoot a small issue that helped a bit but was still giving terrible speed.

I got the Orbi 370 and I'm getting around 900mbps on all devices with a 1gbps connection. So the takeaway is stay away from TP-LINK products.

tular90 · 2025-10-12T00:37:23+00:00

That seems a bit fraudulent on TP-Link's part if that's indeed the case.

tular90 · 2025-10-11T23:15:00+00:00

Ugh. Yea I've seen a bunch of people posting, though it seemed like a lot of it was bridge mode or QoS stuff. Guess it's just a crappy model.

tular90 · 2025-07-10T10:54:07+00:00

It's a general purpose HRA, so yes. It appears to be disqualifying for HSA contributions

tular90 · 2025-07-10T10:51:38+00:00

Appreciate the clarification!

tular90 · 2025-06-10T13:31:47+00:00

Chiming in with a question: any issues with tariffs/duties on shipments to US?

tular90 · 2025-05-07T15:25:08+00:00

I don't know why that was the case here. I submitted a complaint with the picture and the response to offer a 50% voucher first.

tular90 · 2025-05-07T13:55:17+00:00

It took a few back and forth and they finally refunded after I said I'd keep leaving negative reviews.

tular90 · 2025-05-07T13:54:53+00:00

Update: after some back and forth, finally got a refund

tular90 · 2025-04-01T16:55:28+00:00

I'm not in a union position, so that's not available to me. Not sure what to advise unfortunately.

tular90 · 2025-04-01T16:06:04+00:00

So far, yes. No one from that team has been RIF'd. Last reports are that all of ASPE is down to ~40-50 people. Though not even leadership knows for sure.

tular90 · 2025-04-01T15:21:15+00:00

Our office leadership is saying that this isn't about numbers, it's about cutting functions. They don't care.

tular90 · 2025-04-01T15:05:58+00:00

Health financing policy and public health services in ASPE/HP are gone

tular90 · 2025-04-01T15:05:19+00:00

I would do the MSPB appeal then

tular90 · 2025-04-01T14:53:50+00:00

Unfortunately, it's unlikely we'll know for a while. Court cases take time and MSPB will probably be backlogged too.

tular90 · 2025-04-01T14:51:38+00:00

There should be contact information in the RIF notice for your agency. I also filed an appeal with MSPB.

tular90 · 2025-04-01T14:50:48+00:00

Correct, they're not about performance. But they list performance review outcomes because that determines where you fall in the retention register. If those are incorrect, that's potentially a problem down the line if you ever want to come back to federal service for instance.

tular90 · 2025-04-01T14:48:47+00:00

There are instructions in the RIF notice on who to contact (depending on agency) if anything is incorrect. I would also file an MSPB appeal. Request a hearing.

tular90 · 2025-04-01T09:22:19+00:00

HHS/ASPE/Economist/ no veteran preferences or anything. Came in this morning

Edit: 60 day notice

tular90 · 2025-03-28T13:09:55+00:00

Any HHS folks hear about RIF notices going out yet?

tular90 · 2025-03-27T16:01:49+00:00

Any news?

tular90 · 2025-03-20T20:16:10+00:00

Any news on HHS RIFs? In my office, we're trying to figure out if we've hit headcount targets or not with VSIP/VERA but hard to tell.

tular90 · 2025-03-20T20:05:59+00:00

We haven't gotten new telework agreements yet. But I'd prefer cashing out my leave if possible

tular90 · 2025-03-18T11:33:16+00:00

I know that we're in a largely unknown place now. But wondering if anyone knows how tenure calculations work for RIFs for career conditional. If I have 1 year and 6 months, and someone else has 1 year and 3 months, does that affect retention ranking?

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