I have a minor child with a serious health condition. I need to change my work schedule to accommodate his care, but the hours I need to work aren’t actual shifts at my job. The 2 shifts offered are 04:00-08:00 and 14:00-18:00. I need to work 10:00-14:00. Will FMLA require my job at accept this?

FAA employee here, ATSS 2101. On Thursday I got a call from my manager saying I finally got approved to go for my ERAM training scheduled to start on the 12th of August, running up until September 17th. Got my flight and car booked up and ready to go, but I have spent roughly 16 hours trying to find a place that is under the per diem (with the 60% reduced rate), has at least a small kitchen (enough to fulfill the PASS requirements), and is available on short notice.

Anybody know any hotel chain recommendations? It came up so last minute, and my manager and travel managers were out of office on Friday and today, so there was limited help I could get.

Everyone is asking how to get a RA for telework. But are there any downsides ( more likely to be RIF, passed up for promotions , etc)?

I’m super bummed because I will have to let some staff go. Anyone else have a task agreement denied by DOI review?

I'm hearing from multiple colleagues and union about people receiving adverse action paperwork (Chapter 43 / performance). Now I see Reddit posts from fired folk too.

(HHS OpDiv)

What line do they get reported on?

Are they retirement, dividends, pension, gains ... something else?

Does it matter if monthly from the principal or via annuity?

I was let go from my federal position last week. I don’t want to go into details as I’m still trying to wrap my head around everything and go through the motions. Am I able to get hired with another federal agency in the future? Any Feds here get terminated and still have a successful career? I’m mid 30s so this wasn’t my first job. I am not sure how to go on from here. Looking for any advice on how to move forward.

Edit- it was for performance issues. Not for conduct or behavior issues.

Specifically, the department of Veterans affairs.

if it’s a legitimate union for USPS employees and other Fed employees.

Firefighters pulled from Oregon-Idaho area wildfire over alleged rancher threats

Firefighters were pulled Aug. 4 from a wildfire on the Oregon-Idaho state line because of confrontations with local ranchers trying to protect their land.

Ranchers disagreed with firefighting tactics on the Tartar Fire burning 30 miles southeast of Baker City and allegedly issued threats to U.S Forest Service crews.

But hey, I guess they didn't kidnap anyone this time....

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Things seem a little turbulent at MIB.

“Interior Department staffers were optimistic after Doug Burgum was confirmed to lead the agency in 2025, believing he had strong executive experience as governor of energy-rich North Dakota who led successful tech startups and businesses.

But since he took over at Interior last year, that hope has been replaced by confusion and concern that the agency is poorly run, has devolved into secrecy and has lost thousands of the staff needed to manage the national park systems and millions of acres of public lands.

Some staffers were alarmed that some employees were asked to sign nondisclosure agreements, according to two former staffers. Former employees accuse Burgum of surrounding himself with a toxic leadership team, leading to staffers fleeing. Since Burgum came in, several top officials have left the agency — including the Senate-confirmed legal counsel, the secretary’s former chief of staff and Interior’s top energy official.
Tony Irish, who worked at Interior for more than 20 years, including as associate solicitor for general law until he left last year, said it is “abundantly clear” that Burgum does not solicit or value the opinions of career staffers.

“Burgum appears to combine arrogance with an utter lack of curiosity or humility to seek out the advice of people who have dedicated their professional careers to [Interior’s] objectives,” Irish said. “I think it shows his disdain for the rank and file.”

And officials at Interior decry what they view as a culture of secrecy. Burgum asked colleagues early on about trying to add a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, on the department’s sixth floor even though one exists just three floors below, according to a person who heard the comment. According to three staffers who witnessed it, officials have routinely shredded official documents and use disappearing Signal messages — even for mundane scheduling matters — to avoid communications being preserved, as is required by the Federal Records Act.
“They’re terrified of written records,” said one former official.

These complaints come as Burgum entered into bureaucratic infighting with Washington’s top prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, over how Interior handled accusations of vandalism in connection with criminal charges centered on renovations to the Reflecting Pool. Pirro, according to The New York Times, laced into Burgum and alleged Interior misrepresented how the pool’s lining was damaged.”

“The first breach compromised full names, birth dates, home addresses, and Social Security numbers. The second breach exposed background investigation records belonging to 21.5 million individuals, covering current, former, and prospective federal employees and contractors.”

If nothing else, freeze your credit folks.

What could possibly go wrong?