ODAR strikes again/VTC dead?

[aljsouth]

It really is SSA and not ODAR which is the culprit here. Someone has decided that the hearings reporters cannot have a key or code to our remote sites. Who will open the doors for remote VTC hearings ? SSA does not care. ODAR secretly wants us to slip the reporter a key so we can continue to do VTC unabated -- but would fire the HOCALJ if something went wrong.

ODAR refuses to address the issue blithely saying the judge will open the office (when we are 200 miles away?). What a madhouse!

[carjack]

It's like draining all of the gasoline and oil out of your vehicle before storing it in the garage at night, because those substances are so flammable and it's safer if they're out of the vehicle. Sounds better on paper than in reality. If you're two hundred miles away, it sounds like you'll have to give them the code and then get them to swear they'll forget it after the hearings at that site.

[decadealj]

Just one more example of policy wonks in Baltimore and inside the beltway promulgating directives with no idea of operations in the field. Lets all give thanks they are not generals or admirals getting good men killed.