Post by JudgeKnot on Jun 25, 2019 7:53:35 GMT -5
moopigsdad I agree that if someone asks for a date, it means a particular day. I understand the importance of following instructions. When I received notice that I'd been cut for that reason, believe me, I beat myself up about it because I knew I had made the mistake. But, I also appealed, hoping that my 20+ years would be taken into account and that it wouldn't really matter if I had been licensed for say 21 years and 10 months, or 21 years, 10 months and five days. Unfortunately, that appeal was denied. What grinds me is that other people who applied in the same cycle and only gave their month and year made it through. While the instructions might be clear, the instructions are not applied uniformly.
So maybe we can all move on with an understanding. I know I made a mistake in one of my applications, and it had consequences. OPM doesn't hold everyone to the same rules, and they make decisions that let some people through but kick others out, even if the answers are substantively identical. Grading is also done subjectively, with no quality control to ensure the graders are applying the same standards to everyone. It's all done apparently for the purpose of narrowing the field to a manageable number. If you've been on the receiving end of their arbitrary decisions, I think you're justified in being frustrated and wanting to speak up. If you haven't been on the receiving end, maybe you can't understand what it feels like to know that you were held to a different standard than someone else.
It's kind of like trying to be one of the first 500 applicants for the OMHA job, and getting kicked out because you were the 510th, but then finding out that the 512th application managed to move through and got the job. If you're just told you were #510, well, it's a bitter pill but you know why you were cut. If you're told later that #512 got through, it changes your view.
So maybe we can all move on with an understanding. I know I made a mistake in one of my applications, and it had consequences. OPM doesn't hold everyone to the same rules, and they make decisions that let some people through but kick others out, even if the answers are substantively identical. Grading is also done subjectively, with no quality control to ensure the graders are applying the same standards to everyone. It's all done apparently for the purpose of narrowing the field to a manageable number. If you've been on the receiving end of their arbitrary decisions, I think you're justified in being frustrated and wanting to speak up. If you haven't been on the receiving end, maybe you can't understand what it feels like to know that you were held to a different standard than someone else.
It's kind of like trying to be one of the first 500 applicants for the OMHA job, and getting kicked out because you were the 510th, but then finding out that the 512th application managed to move through and got the job. If you're just told you were #510, well, it's a bitter pill but you know why you were cut. If you're told later that #512 got through, it changes your view.