(08-30-2018 03:58 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(08-30-2018 02:09 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(08-30-2018 01:51 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(08-30-2018 01:50 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(08-30-2018 01:45 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  So, he denied federal employees a 2.1% COLA pay increase and that's fiscal conservatism?

Good point. Better to cut them completely, but it's a start.

why?

The GS increase isn't technically a COLA. Why shouldn't compensation be more performance based? That's how it works in the private sector and we all know which is more efficient.

Before you try to pounce on anything I've said, my wife is a GS10 and just received a 3% performance based raise. She constantly complains about lazy workers that she has to pick up the slack for.

2% doesn't cover inflation. I can't remember a time I didn't get a minimum of a 2% bump in the private sector.

So what? Corrections are painful, especially after drinking from a never-ending flow of increases. I haven't gotten a raise in three years, but in that same time my bonuses have increased to close to 20% of my base. It' much more cost effective to reward deserving employees than to just give everybody an increase in base pay.

(08-30-2018 03:58 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Where is the Trump proposal for a performance based merit increase? Are these employees being asked to indefinitely forgo an COLA while DJT devises a merit based system?

stop exaggerating. This is an annual thing.

(08-30-2018 03:58 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Lazy is a rather subjective term, yet there isn't a place I've worked where some workers don't throw others under the bus to make themselves look better.

I grew up near a military town and still live close by. The base employs the majority of two nearby towns and there are currently over 1600 openings on base right now. It's the ultimate in job security because it is so hard to get fired. My wife has a full caseload (20+ families) while some of her coworkers complain when they are handed more than a half-dozen.

She will be just fine without a 2% increase next year.