LeftyLasVegas
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Where is Pinal Airpark, AZ?
What happened to BR?
- Thread starter swinte00
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Just northwest of Tucson. About 40 miles NW of downtown.
swinte00
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:yeahthat:Exactly! I mean, sure, questions can get repetitive here on JC; but there's also a good few different places it could get posted, so I can sometimes see how it could be missed. The ATC forum is one section of the website, yet it gets a TON of repetitive questions (Whats the process for OTS? Hey I failed my MMPI, what do I do now? How do you get hired?, etc, etc). It's all right here in this one section of the website. You almost don't have to use the search function because there's always some question covered, if not a sticky.
PrincessintheTower
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Someone in another post brought up a good point. It seems like a lot of the people who have been told FY2010 had BR as their HR rep. Do you think that all of us may have driven her out with constant calls and e-mails begging for class dates?
I know I am guilty. She told me October several months ago, but I still went ahead and called her last week to see if, by some miracle, something sooner became available.
I know I am guilty. She told me October several months ago, but I still went ahead and called her last week to see if, by some miracle, something sooner became available.
No....you think?
C'mon people, use some common sense. With a government job, the wheels of progress turn slowly. On your end, you need to have a healthy amount of patience. That doesn't mean sitting around forever on your hands, but calling/emailing to the extent that many here have admitted to is a surefire way to get your application filed into the circular file at their feet. Now, an email or so every so often is fine, if only to keep in touch. But if you constantly pester....then multiply that just by the number of people on this forum section, plus many more that prob aren't here.......then do the math and put yourself in the HR seat, and see how you'd feel about it.
About the bottom end of HRs priorities involves fielding a ton of "are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet?" calls from people. If you have a legitimate need, then by all means contact and attempt to work something; but if you're just whining and complaining about having to stand in line, then save it.
PrincessintheTower
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I have only contacted her 2x in well over four months.
Bumblebee
Commodore
Then Mike's post couldn't possibly be directed toward you, right?
I don't mean you with my post, just so you know. Your question simply provided a good opportunity to say what I wanted to say, based on what I've been observing on the site.
PrincessintheTower
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I hear ya, it just felt like you were mocking me. 
swinte00
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Honestly, I think MikeD has said the things that a lot of the veterans on this site have been wanting to say for a while--and he did it in the nicest way possible.
Granted, I'm lucky enough to have a FOL and class date, but I was stuck in the waiting line at one point, along with the rest of the PUBNAT folks out there. It's a LONG process. Very few people have been able to make it through in less than 6 months, let alone a year. I know that I delayed getting a lot of my clearances in without ANY help from HR/medical, but that's because I was in NO hurry to get a class date. I had to finish college and it just so happened that I finished right as the hiring process was nearing an end for us PUBNAT2ers.
I will say that it honestly drives me crazy to see all the people on here who pester HR/medical about their clearances. I only contacted HR/medical when I had something pertinent for them, and even then they were in a rush it seemed. The "me first! are we there yet??" attitudes will not get you anywhere. Anyone who has worked for the government before will know that it's a constant waiting game, along with a ton of paperwork.
PS: Can the Mods add a feature when you click the "New Thread" button that pops up and asks "WAIT! Have you used the SEARCH feature first? Most of your questions have already been answered in the forum." Or maybe, keeping newbies from creating threads until they have 25 posts?
Granted, I'm lucky enough to have a FOL and class date, but I was stuck in the waiting line at one point, along with the rest of the PUBNAT folks out there. It's a LONG process. Very few people have been able to make it through in less than 6 months, let alone a year. I know that I delayed getting a lot of my clearances in without ANY help from HR/medical, but that's because I was in NO hurry to get a class date. I had to finish college and it just so happened that I finished right as the hiring process was nearing an end for us PUBNAT2ers.
I will say that it honestly drives me crazy to see all the people on here who pester HR/medical about their clearances. I only contacted HR/medical when I had something pertinent for them, and even then they were in a rush it seemed. The "me first! are we there yet??" attitudes will not get you anywhere. Anyone who has worked for the government before will know that it's a constant waiting game, along with a ton of paperwork.
PS: Can the Mods add a feature when you click the "New Thread" button that pops up and asks "WAIT! Have you used the SEARCH feature first? Most of your questions have already been answered in the forum." Or maybe, keeping newbies from creating threads until they have 25 posts?
realjv3
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:clap:Hear here! Great idea.Can the Mods add a feature when you click the "New Thread" button that pops up and asks "WAIT! Have you used the SEARCH feature first? Most of your questions have already been answered in the forum." Or maybe, keeping newbies from creating threads until they have 25 posts?
jcpilot
Fly for show, vector for dough
:yeahthat:
I know a lot of people subscribe to the old adage 'The squeaky wheel gets the grease', but too many squeaky wheels slows down the process for everybody...... This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, just an observation in general. :bandit:
Zoesmom1020
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the squeaky wheel gets grease. The annoying pain in the butt wheel gets taken into the junk yard and sold for scrap.
but I'd like to think that BR moved on cause she won the lotto or moved to Paris or something fun like that. I'd hate to think it was just because she let her job get to her. Cause no matter how obnoxious people were about calling/emailing, that IS the job description of an HR rep. But that's just my .02.
Gotta disagree with you. HR reps are there to process people, etc. NOT there to have to deal with every nitwit who lacks patience and wants to call/email 24/7, which is pretty prevelant around this forum judging by some of the posters I've seen.
Quite possible that some of those that have been a pain in the ass to HR, and still haven't received dates for anything........there could be a connection. Who knows?
ATCJefe
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:yup::yup::yup: Oh, man I needed that!! Thanks!
Zoesmom1020
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I agree that people can be obnoxious and they shouldn't be. I don't think they should annoy their reps or that they should expect the rep to treat them special. But I think that anyone who works in HR knows that they have to deal with a lot of garbage from their future and current employees.