How to Jumpstart Your Creativity Muse
Need to summon your creativity in a hurry? Here are a few techniques to trick your muse (which is really the only way) into helping.
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Need to summon your creativity in a hurry? Here are a few techniques to trick your muse (which is really the only way) into helping.
Reassignment from a supervisory to a non-supervisory position-with no reduction in grade or pay-does not add up to an adverse action subject to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board.
Starting Social Security at age 62? Or anytime before your Full Social Security Age (65-67)? Most Federal Employees are too – but they usually haven’t heard of the three big whammies that come with starting Social Security early. Don’t let these whammies catch you by surprise.
The author says that proper planning for retirement from a federal career must take place throughout an employee’s entire career. He covers some important areas federal employees should consider as part of this planning process.
A former EPA attorney challenged his removal for misuse of agency time and resources to carry on an outside law practice by arguing that the agency was inconsistent in levying penalties because it did not fire employees who participated in the annual NCAA basketball tournament office pool. The argument fell on unsympathetic ears.
The author examines a couple of different investment strategies for the TSP and some of the pros and cons of each approach.
According to the GAO, the Postal Service is continuing to struggle financially and is on an unsustainable path absent Congressional assistance.
The author suggests writing to the person who will be reading your work to avoid what he calls “double-talk.”
The MSPB appears to have thrown a seminal decision into doubt in second guessing a deciding official who had considered the “Douglas Factors”.