While in law school, I had a professor stress to us the importance of creating a CYA file. CYA stands for Cover Your A**. The purpose of this file is to document your work so that if something goes wrong, no one can place blame on you for something that isn’t your fault. Of course, …
I think everyone is experiencing a bit of work-related stress because of the current state of the U.S. economy. I work for the government, so we’re not as prone to layoffs, which is nice, but we do have a number of people in temporary positions, and as people move on to other jobs, we aren’t …
We received official word that our year-end performance bonuses were all denied. The official reason? It is not and has never been policy to give a year-end performance bonus. Nevermind that people got them last year and the year before that and the year before that and… Given the current state of the economy, I …
One of the interesting things about being a federal employee is that there are two separate retirement systems. Employees who have been with the government for a number of years are still on the older system, but we new employees are on the new system. Okay, so it doesn’t sound that interesting, but what it …
One thing I have been working on this week is a fairly extensive application for a new job. It’s a position that I really really really want, but I’ve done my part, so now all I can do is sit back and wait while my application is reviewed and hope that it’s good enough to …