FERS Disability: realizing that in general terms people don't like change and when a disability is reported in the federal workplace both management and coworkers will usually react negatively

OPM Retirement for Mental or Physical Incapacity: Life Changes

October 27, 2014

For some, transitions constitute mere alterations with minimal reverberations; but for most, change from routine is itself a traumatic event worth resisting even at the expense of one’s own good, one’s advantage, one’s self-interest. Stability and the status quo represent a daily habituation of life where symbolism of sameness parallels security and safety. It may be the routine itself; and while complaints about work may abound, the complaining itself engulfs a camaraderie of a community of collectivism. […]

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Evidence of Change

August 5, 2014

The charge against Bishop Berkeley has always been one of contemptuous absurdity. For, if all that we can ever rely upon are sense impressions, then how can one maneuver through the dangers of the physical universe without bumping into tables and chairs, with calamitous consequences of mortal […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: House of Cards

May 8, 2014

The proverbial metaphor referring to the House of Cards is well-known to most: it symbolizes the fragile nature of that which we so carefully construct and devise; the time, effort and sensitive touch needed, sometimes holding one’s breath lest a puff of passing […]

Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: Loss of Empathy

April 10, 2014

Does it establish the existence of empathy if a person asks after someone’s health or wellbeing? If, in the next moment, the querying individual does something which would constitute “backstabbing”, does it negate the previous sincerity of the asking? […]

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Maverick

February 25, 2014

It is sometimes referred to as an unbranded animal, often a calf or yearling; the fact that it is unbranded, implies that it doesn’t belong to a particular stock; ownership is not established; and secondary meanings include an inference of being unorthodox or different. […]

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Threatened Order

January 29, 2014

One’s orderliness of life is dependent upon the next person; and like the proverbial domino which stands precariously wedged between the one previous and the one subsequent, the universe of stability is dependent upon the static nature of the […]