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Post by bindyb on Mar 6, 2008 10:48:37 GMT -5
www.ssa.gov/legislation/RecentIssues.html#ALJOfferI just found this on the ssa.gov website. It is the first comprehansive list of where the hires actually went i have seen. Also, could someone tell me where I can find further information about ODAR early outs?
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knownuthin
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Post by knownuthin on Mar 6, 2008 11:59:39 GMT -5
Based on this listing, 4 cities were left off of my location selections. (Houston, Fort Worth, Charlotte, and Tulsa). Looks like Louisiana picked up the most judges with 12.
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Post by jennifer on Mar 6, 2008 12:38:57 GMT -5
I wonder what happened to Lexington, KY.
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Post by crazybroad on Mar 6, 2008 12:50:53 GMT -5
I must be a fool to think that I stand a chance in this game when there were 18 positions open in the 7 cities I had on the cert and i didn't get one. Can you spell I-D-I-O-T? What the **** am I doing here? Just wasting everyone's time including mine. Sorry for that. I'm outta here.
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Post by jagghagg on Mar 6, 2008 13:12:23 GMT -5
Oh, CB - I hate to see that kind of response, but I think I understand.... Only 2 cities on my list will filled, 3 slots. I have a "high" score and a disability vet preference. Rumor has it all slots filled by insiders. Hard for me to figure that there were 3 disabled Vets inside SSA with better scores than I. Modified - oops, sorry, I misspoke: they did not have to have a better score than I; SSA just cannot pass a preference eligible for a non-preference eligible. So my score could be garbage as long as the selectee was preference eligible. More the sorrow to me...  |
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Post by justfoundthisboard on Mar 6, 2008 13:50:50 GMT -5
Pittsburgh was also dropped.
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Post by aljhunter on Mar 6, 2008 13:58:46 GMT -5
Hope4all posted that he/she received an offer for Pittsburgh. He/she must have declined. . .
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Post by justfoundthisboard on Mar 6, 2008 14:14:40 GMT -5
Okay. Thanks for letting me know.
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Post by knownuthin on Mar 6, 2008 14:15:42 GMT -5
Seven Fields, PA got 4 judges. It's located near Pittsburgh, so maybe it counted as Pittsburgh
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Post by aljhunter on Mar 6, 2008 14:52:42 GMT -5
Was Seven Fields, PA, listed along with Pittsburgh, PA, on the FEAI that candidates on the Certificate received? If not, knownuthin' answer seems probable. There is a difference between Seven Fields, PA, and Pittsburgh, PA, similar to the difference between Arlington, VA, or Washington, DC, and Rockville, MD. . . I think I would feel like the stooge in a "bait-and-switch" if I wanted Pittsburgh, PA, but SSA was really thinking "Seven Fields, PA."
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Post by mama on Mar 6, 2008 15:58:08 GMT -5
I know that Pittsburgh in this case WAS 7 fields. The 7 Fields office was not opened until 11/.07 and was not on the list for that reason. The "REAL" Pittsburgh office had no openings and is fully staffed. All offers for "Pittsburgh" went to 7 Fields.
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Post by aljhunter on Mar 6, 2008 16:12:47 GMT -5
I know that Pittsburgh in this case WAS 7 fields. The 7 Fields office was not opened until 11/.07 and was not on the list for that reason. The "REAL" Pittsburgh office had no openings and is fully staffed. All offers for "Pittsburgh" went to 7 Fields. I think I get it now. Pittsburgh on the FEAI was not "really" Pittsburgh. And, no candidate who completed the AR in May 2007 could have designated Seven Fields on the candidate's geographic preference list because, well, Seven Fields did not exist in May 2007. Hmmm, seems to me that OPM should have contacted every candidate; informed the candidate that there was at least one new choice for the geographic preference list; and asked the candidate if the candidate would like to include the new choice on the candidate's geographic preference list. By Fall 2007, I would have opted for Seven Fields, as I have a dear friend who lives now in Cranberry Township, the neighboring town. . . I wonder, when did people who were interviewing for Pittsburgh learn that they were interviewing instead for Seven Fields? |
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Post by lurker on Mar 6, 2008 23:44:17 GMT -5
I think I get it now. Pittsburgh on the FEAI was not "really" Pittsburgh. And, no candidate who completed the AR in May 2007 could have designated Seven Fields on the candidate's geographic preference list because, well, Seven Fields did not exist in May 2007. . . . I wonder, when did people who were interviewing for Pittsburgh learn that they were interviewing instead for Seven Fields? I suspect they were notified it was Seven Fields when they got the email offering them an ALJ job there. I had Pittsburgh on my list along with 8 other locations. There was no discussion of locations at all during the interviews and I would be quite surprised to hear that anyone got any additional information outside of the interviews. My understanding (which I probably got from this board or the other one) was that the new 7 Fields office was meant to be an expansion of the Pittsburgh office - so I suspected that if I got an offer for Pittsburgh, it would be one or the other. |
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