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Nov 20, 2009

Not So Many Vets At Social Security

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued a report on the employment of veterans by the U.S. government. Vets comprise 25.5% of the federal civilian workforce but only 9.6% of Social Security's workforce.

6 comments:

  1. Not surprising. Females comprise a large part of SSA's workforce and, until recently, there were not a large number of female vets.

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  2. I've hired 6 vets. Only one is still around after eight years.

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  3. My experience is that a lot of vets find the SSA management structure tough to take and head for other agencies.

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  4. I can only speak anecdotally, but several vets find that the work at Social Security is not a good fit. Being an SR or CR is hard work and some veterans that I know would prefer something cushier.

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  5. As much as I admire and respect veterans, that too has been my experience. They tend to want to get around doing the work to get the job done. Unfortunate, but there you are.

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  6. Not a surprise that Vets would avoid the SSA labor camps, seeing as how non-management employees are literally being worked to death in some offices. The vets have already in some cases put their health at risk, due to being in actually combat for their country. Why get a heart attack or stroke from the unrelenting pressures at SSA, if there are better working conditions elsewhere for the same pay?

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