re: Resigned and Retired. Last day is Thursday

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I’m only 60 so I cannot stay at home.

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Says who?

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America was great in the 1920s and 30s

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Did you really just post that America was great during the Great Depression? SMH.

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This idea that OP is destitute is simply ignorant. He needs to go live life.

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I don't know if anyone other than the OP is in a position to know where they are financially. They said they could not stay home...that can mean they can't stand the thought of staying at home because its boring or that they can't afford to stay at home. They are 60 years old and probably making a low 6 figure salary. They have probably been saving as much as they could in the TSP account and have probably done some retirement financial planning. They may well be on the way to having a couple of million in their TSP in 7 years at FRA and will have maxed out social security, their TSP and their pension. They decided to resign so they probably have an idea of where they are financially....if they resigned and aren't set financially they may have to adjust their expectations and life style....

Coach kids peewee sports

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Federal pension does not compare to state/local.

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I'm in local government. We get 3% per year so when I'm eligible to retire at 58 after 30 years of employment, I'll be at 90% of my highest 3 salaries.

Congratulations, and enjoy whatever you want to do!

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39 years with the Government and now what? I’m only 60 so I cannot stay at home. Confusing times

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Volunteer. Stop by the LSU ag office and join the Master Gardners Program. Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. Train for a half marathon. Spend a month or two hiking the Appalachian Trail.

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Time card fraud over a period of 10 years.
From 2009-2019. That government oversight was doing a helluva job.
At least the government got paid back.


How come all those 30-40% aren't catching them sooner? Why did it take 10 years?

If contractors are notoriously corrupt, why do all those procurement "professionals" continue to award them to those companies?

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The case went on for nearly 7 years. Why wasn't it caught quicker? It was. Literally within days initially. The courts and congress urged the regulator to let the contractor work it out on their own. They ignored every opportunity to fix the problem because they knew when they paid up what they would pay would be NOTHING compared to what they earned.

This is a case of performance based contracting where award fee was on the table....a bonus for performing above and beyond expectations. This is the way MOST federal contracts are written as they incentivize the contractor to do more than a bare minimum. This is a $1+ billion a year project that has been ongoing for 25 years now. In order to receive the award fee the contractor had to show an effort to be on time and on schedule. IN order to do this they would have their employees scheduled for 7-12s when they did not have enough work to keep them busy for 40 hours a week. The DOE knew this, took the contractor(s) to task for it and the courts and congress weighed in and told the DOE basically you gotta give them a chance. They had no choice and only after about 9 years did the courts finally say enough is enough.


Add to this the fact that this is a design build project of an extremely complex and highly political nature. The DOE asked the contractor to come up with a plan....no one had ever done what was being proposed on a scale like the DOE was proposing. The Contractor(s) did indeed come up with plan after plan, started working the plan and then found out the plan wasn't feasible....and it has been going on for 25 years. The contractor(s) pretend to know what is needed but they are making it up as they go, they have no idea what is needed nor does anyone else.

And before anyone suggests this is a government efficiency problem it is indeed....the problem is a direct result of the creation of nuclear weapons during WW2 and in the following cold war. Again, there is no way to conduct either profitability, it is a fricking mess that ONLY government can attempt to correct. Failure to do so will mean about 2/3s of the northern Pacific rim, including Japan and Russia, would be unlivable for a few months to a couple of hundred years. The people of the DOE and the majority of the contractor's employees are fully cognizant of their responsibilities and what failure means. The problem is that politicians do not know, or in the case of the current administration do not care what the ramifications are and far too many at the top of these contractors management teams are more concerned with making piles of money that protecting the public or the taxpayer.


We made a fricking mess ending WW2 and winning the cold war (did we win it? The bills aint paid yet). That mess is now looming over the heads of a sizeable majority of human beings on the planet. We have no idea what to do about it but a bunch of slick talking federal contractors will tell anyone with a pen who can sign a check that they do know what to do about it....and they are connected to congress and the courts and here we are. It ain't the people doing the work, its the people sending the bills and signing the fricking checks.

He isn’t under CSRS. He only has 29 years of service so he started after 1987. I retired at 54. FERS retirements are’t enough to live on so I got another job.