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Millennials exit the federal workforce as government jobs lose their allure
Washington Post ^ | 12/15/14 | Lisa Rein

Posted on 12/15/2014 7:42:03 PM PST by Nachum

Six years after candidate Barack Obama vowed to make working for government “cool again,” federal hiring of young people is instead tailing off and many millennials are heading for the door. The share of the federal workforce under the age of 30 dropped to 7 percent this year, the lowest figure in nearly a decade, government figures show. With agencies starved for digital expertise and thousands of federal jobs coming open because of a wave of baby-boomer retirements, top government officials, including at the White House, are growing increasingly distressed about the dwindling role played by young workers. “Millennials are

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: federalemployees; government; jobs; millennials; nothanks; trends; workforce
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1 posted on 12/15/2014 7:42:03 PM PST by Nachum
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2 posted on 12/15/2014 7:43:12 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

Get the illegals in there.


3 posted on 12/15/2014 7:44:12 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Nachum
I'm prepared to believe that the Advance Team for some hot upcoming politician has access to sweet technology, and knows how to use it. I bet they're fast and dynamic people. They know Big Data. They are masters of social media. I bet many millennials would thrive in that kind of environment.

And that describes about 0.05% of federal jobs.

Most of the federal government seems to be staffed by 55 year olds who miss Windows 95 and wish they had one of those exciting jobs over at the registry of motor vehicles.

Sclerotic? Hidebound? Risk averse? Unambitious? Yeah -- that's your federal workforce. It costs $4T a year and does almost nothing useful.

Why would a millennial sign on for that?

4 posted on 12/15/2014 7:48:44 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: Nachum

smart people like to be in a peer group and challenged ... not be around a bunch of working gimmedat’s


5 posted on 12/15/2014 7:52:08 PM PST by knarf
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To: Nachum

There is nothing like a government job to suck your ambition, creativity, the desire for relevance, and your very soul right out. It is a self-selection process where those who want security at all cost go to be burried alive.


6 posted on 12/15/2014 7:53:43 PM PST by winner3000
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Maybe the feds should stop hiring for a generation. Maybe, then, those “workers” might have to do some work.


7 posted on 12/15/2014 7:58:11 PM PST by ogen hal (First Amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: Nachum

After a lot of soul searching I recently took a federal job.

There were about 40 of us in orientation, almost everyone there looked like they were in their 40’s and 50’s. Either prior military or getting to the age where they are realizing they will be working until they die if they don’t get a guaranteed pension.

Not a single person there looked like they were in their 20’s or early 30’s.

Getting a federal job is frankly a PIA, between deciding it was something I wanted to do to actually getting a pay check was about 6 months and the process was expedited for my position, it can take close to a year to get your first job. That and getting a security clearance and taking random observed urine tests, I imagine a lot of 20 something kids don’t want that much bother.


8 posted on 12/15/2014 8:02:19 PM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: Nachum

Government shrinking? Coping with 0bama care cost?

Last in/ first out, according to Union senority rules


9 posted on 12/15/2014 8:12:30 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Nachum

Back in the 80s when companies were going on computer every geek I ever saw could sit around all day and if asked by the boss what he was doing he’d simply say “I’m thinking.” The boss didn’t have enough knowledge to challenge him.


10 posted on 12/15/2014 8:16:50 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (My love affair with an abuser is over. Support a third party.)
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To: dangerdoc

That generation is used to immediate rewards. That’s why a lot of them love to be in sales.


11 posted on 12/15/2014 8:18:39 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (My love affair with an abuser is over. Support a third party.)
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To: Nachum

I imagine most of the youngsters were turned off by that picture of the Las Vegas hot tub guy that came out during one of Barry’s scandals. That line dancing video with the government employee line dancing with a cast on her leg wasn’t a big seller either.


12 posted on 12/15/2014 8:20:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with America is that it's full of Americans. - The commie DemocRATS.)
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To: Nachum

Best news I’ve read in a long time. Plus, the read between the lines is that the government is incompetent, this time even to hire a work force.


13 posted on 12/16/2014 1:21:12 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The cases in the story - one was possibly turned down for permanent status [the story doesn’t say that but I think that’s what happened]; two others never got an offer in the first place; the fourth one got a job.

Although clearly your chances are maybe 1 in 100 rather than 1n 4.


14 posted on 12/16/2014 2:26:01 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: dangerdoc

I’d think a lot of middle-aged people are looking for the stability of the federal jobs, while the younger people are either unqualified or disinterested in work in general.

I’d also think the affirmative action-based anti-white racism would be a deterrent; the gubmint workforce has minorities heavily over-represented, and they know it is difficult to fire them. Federal workers must deal with a lot of incompetent co-workers, while the private sector has been weeding them out since money got tight.


15 posted on 12/16/2014 4:20:04 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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Federal workers must deal with a lot of incompetent co-workers, while the private sector has been weeding them out since money got tight.

Which is why the term "Going Postal" was coined.

16 posted on 12/16/2014 4:23:05 AM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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My understanding is that “going postal” was caused by supervisors trying to drive bad workers out (since they couldn’t be fired); eventually the targeted employee snaps.


17 posted on 12/16/2014 4:25:50 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Unless the supervisor snaps first.


18 posted on 12/16/2014 4:28:08 AM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: ClearCase_guy
Sclerotic? Hidebound? Risk averse? Unambitious? Yeah -- that's your federal workforce.

Yes, and they also have a certain "look" about them.

19 posted on 12/16/2014 4:30:24 AM PST by Salvey
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To: Nachum

Work is for SUCKERS. ;)


20 posted on 12/16/2014 6:18:52 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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