I thought So Many People Where Looking For Work

Well, their hiring process is ridiculous and drawn out so it's not crazy to assume their firing process is as well. The union makes things sticky too.

Here's an article that touches the subject...
PolitiFact | Firing federal workers is difficult (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2007/sep/05/mcain-federal/)

Thanks that was helpful.

My brother used to work for a larger engineering firm in the DC area. It wasnt a huge fortune 500 company but it wasnt a small company by any means. Firing someone there was also extremely difficult because they basically determined they would rather pay for a bad employee then take their chances in court or have a civil suit affect their name. He told me a story of this extremely obese lady who was a horrible employee. After years of people wanting to get rid of her she was about to be fired when she was tipped off by another lady in the company. She went home sick that day and immediately filed for disability due to her obesity. The company was too scared to fire her while she was on disability, so they couldn’t do anything until she came back like a year later. I guess my thoughts are its hard for govt to fire people but its can also be hard for large companies to fire people even if for different reasons.

There are incompetent, overpaid and lazy folks in just about every line of work. Why do gov't employees specifically get people so fired up??


Because we are forced to pay for them no matter how much hate their services or products. If you hate the customer service you get when you call Dell you can buy an Apple. If you think the nuggets at McDonalds suck you can go to Wendys. If you hate dealing with the DMV, IRS, VDOT or other government agencies you cant do anything but keep paying…..

The girl who left my office and the reason I started this thread died Friday and I was pretty shocked as she was only 48. From what I heard she had not been feeling well and finally on Thursday she got so bad they took her to the hospital where she went directly on to life support. Some kind of a virus got her and was shutting down her organs.

LOL. No my wife did the ad and it was in the local paper. We tried Craigs list and only had few response from people who made my spelling and grammer look first class.

Thank you for having a sense of humor!! Refreshing.

The girl who left my office and the reason I started this thread died Friday and I was pretty shocked as she was only 48. From what I heard she had not been feeling well and finally on Thursday she got so bad they took her to the hospital where she went directly on to life support. Some kind of a virus got her and was shutting down her organs.

That's terrible. RIP

I wonder who has it the hardest. Being younger I've seen the worst part of looking for work being everyone asking for experience. Especially the "entry level" jobs that sometimes ask for two years of RELEVANT work experience. However at the same time I see old timers complaining about how qualified they are for positions yet they keep getting beat out by kids that according to them "don't have enough experience."

I have a decent part time job now and I have a great lead on an outside sales position with a major corporation and maybe even a second company if that falls through but I'm pretty sure that without my connections I would be dead in the water on both opportunities. Probably would have been worse if I didn't come from a financially well off family.

One things for sure though. Possibly the worst part of looking for a job is interviewing well for a position, people telling you how much they like you then all of a sudden you don't hear from them for a week or two, or in the case of a position I flew in to interview for outside DC, a sudden hiring freeze the next day. They apparently liked me a lot as well. However that one might have been a blessing in disguise. Pay looked great on paper and number wise was about what I expected to get in the Southeast, but as most of you know DC is expensive. Factor in cost of living and the difference in pay was about $12,000.

So I'm interviewing this lady yesterday for a job when her cell phone rings and she answers it. My first reaction was whay did she have her cell phone on and why did she answer the phone The interview had gone pretty well up until that part and it really turn me off. I'll have to add that my wife had done the main interview and I was doing the what we are looking for and need part of the interview. We were pretty much done but the interview was still going on when she answered the phone. My wife thinks I'm making too much out of this. What do you guys think?

Maybe she accidentally left her phone on. But no reason for her to answer it. Unless, beforehand she was like listen "my mother is very ill at the hospital, and I may be getting a phone call..." or something like that it's pretty inexcusable.