Re: PessOptimist's Retirement Story
remember high three is calculated from your last day back. they got me on that with a buy out at the end of Sept '16. so all of a sudden monthly retirement check is less than what I had counted on. it would have been better for me not to take the buyout and just stayed until end of Dec.
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PessOptimist
Nnuut, there is no best day for me from what I read since I am retiring in the middle of the year.
Personally, it WILL be the best day of my life.
You are absolutely correct that if you have any responsibilities at all you need to take care of them before you leave. Some to protect yourself about property and some to state that you will no longer be available as POC on ongoing projects.
If you have a job with no responsibilities other than doing your bureaucratic function or just don’t care, see ya.
If I have learned one thing in the past year it is that responsibilities for projects that belonged to persons in your chain of command may be given to you and were not a concern to the person departing. You find out when a deadline is passed without action. In the past year I have had three WB bosses depart and three GS13/14 depart and leave their responsibilities with me, a WB. The GS-12s acting for the missing 14 have never been hesitant to pass the responsibility on to a WB person and no info at all on what has happened or where the project is because they do not know. Not in my PD which is to supervise a team of craftspersons but I try.
To anyone worried about my complaints, about a year ago management announced they were formulating a business plan to correct problems with the management culture here. No news since and the person who stated that has moved on to a higher GS position. I am sure it will be “fixed” soon.
Sorry for the whining. Thanks for the retirement info.
PO
"Our Constitution was made only for a Moral and Religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the goverment of any other." John Adams 10/11/1798
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