My last day as a Federal Computer worker was on Friday and even this news was not enough to make me stay. The 33% is for the most junior positions and decreases to minumial up around the GS12 grade.
It wasn't so much the money that made me leave more the frustration. I would have been better off being a contracted worker for the agency I worked for, my salary would have been better and my training would have been paid for by the agency and not out of my pocket.
I have spent years watching all the IT positions be contracted out in the name of down sizing goverment. By eliminating the the Federal workers with any technical skills to provide over sight, all we have ended up with is millions of dollars being spent on poorly designed systems that never work correctly.
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My last day as a Federal Computer worker was on Friday and even this news was not enough to make me stay. The 33% is for the most junior positions and decreases to minumial up around the GS12 grade. It wasn't so much the money that made me leave more the frustration. I would have been better off being a contracted worker for the agency I worked for, my salary would have been better and my training would have been paid for by the agency and not out of my pocket. I have spent years watching all the IT positions be contracted out in the name of down sizing goverment. By eliminating the the Federal workers with any technical skills to provide over sight, all we have ended up with is millions of dollars being spent on poorly designed systems that never work correctly.