{"id":61649,"date":"2015-08-31T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61649"},"modified":"2015-08-31T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T16:07:08","slug":"veterans-work-for-the-government-in-record-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61649","title":{"rendered":"Veterans work for the government in record numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Washington Post<\/a> at least half of new hires for the Federal government are veterans, but even though they work for the government in record numbers, they also leave those jobs in record numbers.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that once veterans get into government, they don\u2019t stay long. They\u2019re more likely to leave their jobs within two years than non-veterans, the Office of Personnel Management reports, even if they\u2019ve transferred from other federal agencies.<\/p>\n

The Small Business Administration had the most trouble keeping veterans in fiscal 2014, with just 62 percent staying two years or more, compared to 88 percent of non-veterans. Former service members left the Commerce Department at similar rates, with 68 percent staying two years or more compared to 82 percent for non-veterans.<\/p>\n

Even the Department of Veterans Affairs, traditionally a draw for former troops, lost a little more than a quarter of its veterans within two years, compared to 20 percent of its non-veterans.<\/p>\n

The only agencies that kept more veterans than non-veterans on board were the Defense and State Departments, the report released last month shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not surprised. Having been a veteran who worked for the Federal government, I have a unique perspective – if a veteran has trouble adapting to being surrounded by civilians, that problem is even worse among the bureaucrats. When I brought up new and improved common sense way to do things in the office, it was usually shot down, because “we’ve always done it this way” or, “that’s not the way we did it last year”. <\/p>\n

I was told by my workmates that “all veterans are crazy” because we had a Vietnam veteran who had worked in the office since that war who pulled the PTSD card out when he was criticized. You know, the PTSD that he caught working in an Okinawa supply room.<\/p>\n

I stayed because they threw buckets of money at me, so I just tried to get along because I like money. Some people don’t. I also got a job about 150 miles from the office (with two other veterans) and I worked from home everyday. Some people aren’t patient enough to wait out the BS for the perks. Some of my workmates wouldn’t even take the free laptops and work from home because it meant that they would have to work from home on snow days.<\/p>\n

Yeah, veterans who have always been innovative and looking for ways to improve how they spent their time at work won’t find the government very responsive and they’ll get the feeling that they’re wasting their time and their talents. <\/p>\n

Of course, your experience working in government may differ from mine.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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