Interesting rejection

[civilserpent]

I recently requested a transfer from my non-ODAR agency to an ODAR office near my home. I had been told that a within ODAR transfer created a vacany in the office. My request was rejected because "there was nothing available". This was confirmed with a conversation between another friend and a regional official. Yet, the location is included in the geographic possibilities of the current register. Although I only worked at ODAR for a year, I routinely scheduled 60 cases a month. I guess this duplicity by management confirms why I was eager to leave the agency. During my brief tenure, it was not unusual to find that codes that I had input on case tracking had been manipulated (e.g., "Edit" often turned into "Post", etc.)

Good luck to all candidates, and I hope your experience is more positive.

[decadealj]

If there are any management people reading this board you may want to consider that falsifying a government record is a criminal offense and I doubt region will bail you out if someone files a criminal information against you (which I have beeen very tempted to do)

[decadealj]

I am remiss- for those of you outside ODAR, management uses a system known as CPMS to track a case through the hearing process and has established "customer service" goals as to how long a case should sit in a particular status after hearing before some guru in the regional office fires off a nasty message to the local HOCALJ. Unfortunately, especially near the end of the month, management officials have been known to cook the books to make themselves look good to the region where the "body count" is a way of life. It may explain some of the paranoia you may perceive from many posts on this board. It also forces the ALJ to meticulously monitor the status of his cases- just this week I discovered two cases in EDIT, (meaning for me to review the draft decision within 7 days or get a nastygram) that had been enetered into CPMS 10 days ago and the decision had not even been written. (I was on leave and didn't notice until I did my end of the week review of the status of all cases assigned to me). Perhaps that will give some perspective to civilserpent and my previous posts.

[Legal Beagle]

Thanks for the clarification - it was enlightening. One of my clients had been the victim of one or more of those manipulated codes - even after having to get our member of congress' staff involved to find out what the problem was. This was a claim for a disabled vet that had been "mis-coded' somewhere and had languished on a decision-writer's desk for a couple of months.

[zero]

Mar 23, 2009 11:18:05 GMT -5 decadealj said:

If there are any management people reading this board you may want to consider that falsifying a government record is a criminal offense and I doubt region will bail you out if someone files a criminal information against you (which I have beeen very tempted to do)

Falsification to improve your performance numbers will get you the axe on the first offense in front of the MSPB. Proof can be difficult but penalty is a cakewalk.

[happy]

I am curious as to the original topic of civilserpent's post. CS, are you on the ALJ transfer register?

I am aware of at least one location currently on the active certificate for which there is no longer any vacancy as of last week, pursuant to an acceptance of a transfer offer off of the list, as required by the CBA with the AALJ-IFPTE.

Not saying that there is nothing duplicitous going on -- just raising the possibility of another explanation.

[aljsouth]

Mar 23, 2009 17:23:04 GMT -5 happy said:

I am curious as to the original topic of civilserpent's post. CS, are you on the ALJ transfer register?

I am aware of at least one location currently on the active certificate for which there is no longer any vacancy as of last week, pursuant to an acceptance of a transfer offer off of the list, as required by the CBA with the AALJ-IFPTE.

Not saying that there is nothing duplicitous going on -- just raising the possibility of another explanation.

CS is not with ODAR and cannot be on our transfer list. ODAR can accept a transfer from another agency, but this has nothing to do with the ODAR transfer list.