ducky
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Blowing in the wind
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Post by ducky on Nov 30, 2019 23:42:21 GMT -5
These were not HACPS decisions.
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Post by terpalj on Apr 16, 2020 13:26:36 GMT -5
Seems like a good day to re-up this thread.
Your agency despises you and the work you do. They pushed hard to make your working conditions significantly worse (along with the work conditions of your colleagues), and obtained a huge victory. If you continue to do any favors or extra work for them, after they’ve shown you their true colors, well, I don’t know what to tell you.
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Post by x on Apr 17, 2020 18:49:21 GMT -5
Just be careful and bear in mind that a "job action" in the labor-law sense of the phrase is illegal.
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Post by ssaogc on Apr 17, 2020 20:02:23 GMT -5
Just be careful and bear in mind that a "job action" in the labor-law sense of the phrase is illegal. Do not believe there is any job action. The thread is about doing your job in the 40 hours you are paid for. Schedule your cases and handle your cases but if you are going to work more than 40 hours to take on cases that need to be covered then that is a favor To management, you Are going above and beyond—why should you? meeting goal, whose goal? If you work your 40 hours, handled your cases, move your cases and the office makes that goal great! If not, then that is not the ALJ’s problem. My office frequently makes Both monthly and annual goals but it does so because ALJs are donating credit hours, unaccounted for hours and covering dockets for sick ALJs or ALJs that are out due to other reasons. Why should these ALJs give that extra effort above and beyond their 40 hours If the agency is seeking to change working conditions to the detriment of these hard working ALJs? |
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Post by rusty on Apr 19, 2020 10:39:09 GMT -5
Not to be the jerk judge, but I signed 38 cases in the last 2 days. In 20 or more of them I had to correct the attorney name and/or correct the VEs name. Joes VE LLC is not the name of a VE. And, before anyone screams metrics or instruction quality, I take extra effort and the first 3 line of my instructions go like this: let me know if there’s an issue..., double space VE: name placed there for the writers, double space Representatives: main rep name, rep at hearing name. And, then I rewrote chunks of 10 favorables and 2 CDRs because writers were on vacation (and they all earned and deserved that) because they were legally insufficient or were remand from the AC ready. The writer metrics aren’t helping out the judges. But........ This. To spend parts of my day concerned with the future of the job itself, to spend constrained times digging through evidence and applying policy to try to make right determinations and then I find that I am bogged down spending time editing subject/verb agreement, spelling, gender, tense and other junior high grammar mistakes, which are often already underlined/highlighted by WORD. |
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Post by jagvet on Apr 19, 2020 17:08:24 GMT -5
ducky : How about "who appeared and testified."? No, they did not appear, and that was before all telehearings, although I am still seeing that sometimes! Editing is tougher than one would expect.
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Post by bolton on Apr 22, 2020 9:05:39 GMT -5
The public has been played for fools, not any of the grunts in OHO. Indeed it’s sad. Claimant’s wait for months or years for a decision which ends up being denied.
After they receive their denial they are painfully made aware that their medical evidence or hearing testimony was never considered. Why! Because the backlog had to be reduced. Yes it is sad! OHO should be ashamed and punished for such travesty. It’s coming, I know this.
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Post by nylawyer on Apr 22, 2020 9:59:53 GMT -5
The public has been played for fools, not any of the grunts in OHO. Indeed it’s sad. Claimant’s wait for months or years for a decision which ends up being denied. After they receive their denial they are painfully made aware that their medical evidence or hearing testimony was never considered. Why! Because the backlog had to be reduced. Yes it is sad! OHO should be ashamed and punished for such travesty. It’s coming, I know this. What are you referring to? Who is denying cases without considering medical evidence or testimony (other than cases where record isn't complete, but that's a different kettle of fish)? If anything the push to lower the backlog has likely resulted in more findings of disability, not less. (Not that this isn't also a problem) |
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Post by lurkerbelow on Apr 22, 2020 13:11:56 GMT -5
Okay? Why was this thread resurrected?
I am confused.
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Post by nylawyer on Apr 22, 2020 13:18:50 GMT -5
Okay? Why was this thread resurrected? I am confused. What is dead can never die. |
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Post by Wynona Writer on Apr 22, 2020 13:57:50 GMT -5
The public has been played for fools, not any of the grunts in OHO. Indeed it’s sad. Claimant’s wait for months or years for a decision which ends up being denied. After they receive their denial they are painfully made aware that their medical evidence or hearing testimony was never considered. Why! Because the backlog had to be reduced. Yes it is sad! OHO should be ashamed and punished for such travesty. It’s coming, I know this. Sounds like a disgruntled rep. |
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Post by christina on Apr 22, 2020 13:59:05 GMT -5
Okay? Why was this thread resurrected? I am confused. cause we are all fools!! this is an undying thread  |
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Post by lurkerbelow on Apr 22, 2020 14:44:10 GMT -5
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Post by SPN Lifer on Apr 22, 2020 21:56:26 GMT -5
Okay? Why was this thread resurrected? I am confused. Thursday, 16 April 2020: Seems like a good day to re-up this thread. Your agency despises you and the work you do. They pushed hard to make your working conditions significantly worse (along with the work conditions of your colleagues), and obtained a huge victory. If you continue to do any favors or extra work for them, after they’ve shown you their true colors, well, I don’t know what to tell you. |
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Post by bolton on Jan 31, 2021 12:30:45 GMT -5
The public has been played for fools, not any of the grunts in OHO. Indeed it’s sad. Claimant’s wait for months or years for a decision which ends up being denied. After they receive their denial they are painfully made aware that their medical evidence or hearing testimony was never considered. Why! Because the backlog had to be reduced. Yes it is sad! OHO should be ashamed and punished for such travesty. It’s coming, I know this. Sounds like a disgruntled rep. I can assure you I’m not a “disgruntled” anything. I’m an investigative watchdog. Yes there are people watching! |
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Post by nylawyer on Jan 31, 2021 12:51:55 GMT -5
Sounds like a disgruntled rep. I can assure you I’m not a “disgruntled” anything. I’m an investigative watchdog. Yes there are people watching! And, the award for the longest thought out reply to a comment on the internet goes to... |
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Post by hamster on Jan 31, 2021 18:17:28 GMT -5
I can assure you I’m not a “disgruntled” anything. I’m an investigative watchdog. Yes there are people watching! And, the award for the longest thought out reply to a comment on the internet goes to... I’ll let you know in 18 months.... Respectfully, Hamster |
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Post by roggenbier on Feb 1, 2021 8:36:01 GMT -5
A man read the mention of his most close friend,Ramsey Bolton......A man watched him rise from the son of an unmarried mother to becoming the Bolton. A man thinks for such a face to rise to high shows the benefit of having many faces, one each at a time of life. A man knows that the face called Ramsey too was despised, he too trooped in air as foul as the air conditioned Senate garage; yet, look what miracles, the gods of the Westerosi allowed him to make, until I gave him his mercy. I wore another face that day. So says a Man.
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Post by bolton on Feb 2, 2021 11:04:12 GMT -5
I can assure you I’m not a “disgruntled” anything. I’m an investigative watchdog. Yes there are people watching! And, the award for the longest thought out reply to a comment on the internet goes to... |
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Post by bolton on Feb 2, 2021 11:06:13 GMT -5
And, the award for the longest thought out reply to a comment on the internet goes to... I’m not a lurker like the majority of members. Nonetheless thanks for the award. Made my day! |
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