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Rating your mate/date
How would you like it if your spouse or significant other rated your performance, then made his/her findings known to friends and neighbors? In this fantasy world, you would naturally hope your performance would be rated as superior, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. But what if you were rated less-than-satisfactory? Would you vow to get better, or would you really rather not even know?
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , workforce , management , performance ratings
What do performance ratings really measure?
Is the performance-rating system in your agency rigged? Does a bear shed in the woods? Despite its noble intent, many workers say performance ratings where they work measure just about everything but performance, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , management , workforce , performance ratings
The Incredible Shrinking Postal Service
Even if you never, or hardly ever, go to a Post Office there's a good chance you went there Tuesday to mail your taxes, and get an SOS from some worried postal employees, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , USPS , American Postal Workers Union , Senate , Congress , taxes , 21st Cetury Postal Service Act
For feds, it's 'WTH?' time
With 24/7 coverage of alleged scandals at GSA, DoD and the Secret Service, many feds are wondering: "What next?" So what do you do if your agency suddenly finds itself in the spotlight?
Tags: Mike Causey , whistleblowers , Shakeup at GSA , federal employees
And you're still working because...
It could be a long time before federal workers see another January pay raise. But for retirees, things are looking up.
Tags: Mike Causey , retirement , pay freeze , cost of living allowance , Consumer Price Index , inflation , Social Security
Whistleblowers: Who guards the guards?
Government workers are under orders to blow the whistle if they spot waste, fraud or abuse. But, for many, that is easier said than done. What if the crook or clown is your immediate boss? Or your agency head? So who guards the guards?
Tags: Mike Causey , whistleblowers , feds , federal employees
The worst year to retire?
The combination of buyouts, a surge in baby boomer retirements and a hostile Congress may make this the worst year, maybe ever, to consider retiring, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , workforce , retirement , OPM , buyouts , early retirements
Retirement: Cancun or the Titanic?
This year and the next could set a new record for federal retirements. Senior correspondent Mike Causey says that's good news if you are stuck on your agency's promotion ladder, but not so good news if it means finding a cookbook for ways to prepare cat food.
Tags: Mike Causey , retirement , retirement backlog , early retirement , buyouts , Stephen Losey
Bad news, worse news: Feast or famine
After two weeks of dining on GSA's fiasco in the desert, the fickle American public is looking for some juicy, replacement news, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. It may be something to do with the Kardashians ... or even the Pentagon.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , workforce , GSA , Navy
GSA: Thank you, thank you!
Members of Congress and media watchdogs are thoroughly outraged over GSA's meltdown in the Nevada desert. But those guardians of public morality and safety are also delighted at the foul-up, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. And we love those YouTube videos too.
Tags: GSA , Shakeup at GSA , Mike Causey , pay and benefits , workforce
