About a month ago, Congress finally passed an appropriations bill covering the Social Security Administration. In normal times the passage of a new appropriations bill means a lot of overtime at Social Security which is used to help catch up on backlogs. However, this appropriations bill was deeply disappointing. It did not give the beleaguered agency nearly enough additional operating funds to cover the rate of inflation since the last appropriations bill.
My question for Social Security employees is: "Have you seen additional overtime since the appropriations bill was passed?"
13 comments:
Nope, mine has been reduced slightly.
I'm a Claims Specialist in PC7. We had one Saturday of 8 hours overtime on 04/09/2022. The last OT we had before that was 8 hours Sat 02/26/22. Zero hours of weekday overtime over that period.
Nothing has changed now that we are back in the office part time.
There is still very limited overtime here.
Overall OT is still down from pre-pandemic, but it seems to be picking up slightly. One problem is so many of my co-workers in the FO are so burned out and jaded by leadership and the direction of the agency they are refusing the OT (not out of spite just they can't stomach working one minute past the standard 40 hour work week.) Of course this may be an isolated occurence and not widespread across the county. I fall into the category of refusing to work over the 40 hours. This agency has become such a farce and many in the FO are at their breaking point.
Same here at our FO -
We have not seen any increase in OT offered since the passage of the budget. But like one previous poster mentioned, no one really wants to work the OT anyway. We are literally burned out from the staffing losses during the pandemic. The last thing I (and many other) wanna do right now is spend more time at work.
Work like balance is a thing. It was easier when teleworking to do OT from home so there was no commute to deal with either. I’m sure it pick up at some point but personally, the extra money isn’t worth it and the work never goes away.
The preliminary 2021 FEVS scores indicate that this is not an isolated occurrence. SSA is headed towards being rated the worst large agency to work for in the Federal Government.
We are all that fed up.
No changes in my corner of FO land; typical availability is two Saturdays in a month for 6 hours.
Same as before but I decided I’m not gonna work it anymore cuz I’m burned out. I’m gonna spent the whole weekend with my husband and 11 year old son instead of working overtime on some Saturday mornings because we don’t have enough people and have to screen all day now instead of doing cr work.
What 11:20 said.
While we are understaffed as 25% of our office has retired within the last 2 years, almost nobody works OT when offered.
Our manager told us the other day that they were expecting to get our overtime allocation just any time now and that we could resume working it again.
Personally, I wouldn't care if I didn't ever work another minute of overtime for the rest of my life. I'm just done with it, period.
The management idiots can just whine like stuck pigs about stuff not getting done. When they do, I'll gladly request that they please feel free to demonstrate for me if they think they can do a better job. That always shuts them up for a little while.
It is their political bootlicker superiors who are causing this mess anyway by not demanding enough funding to get the job done, and that is not to mention the majority of them being generally incompetent buttwipes who lack even the slightest morsel of managerial competence to properly run the agency. In fact, I think you could lock most of them in a closet with a flashlight and a map and they would be able to find their rear ends when the fire department has to rescue them ( much less manage the total absolute mess that is SSA today).
OAO was told there will be no OT other than for court cases
PC7 has about 25% of the overtime we used to have pre pandemic.
Our FO overtime is ramping back up but in our office the CRs aren't working it for the most part. Burnout. No appreciation. The work will still be there whether we work OT or not. Many of us are choosing to enjoy the weekend with our families rather than bail out the agency and the incompetency in Baltimore.
OT available most Saturdays in our FO, 6 hours. A few take it; most of those that do are the ones that couldn't get their jobs done in 400 hours a week.
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