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SLAVE - Anonymous employee Social Security Administration Employee Review

1.0
29 Jul 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I'm not homeless. I can pay my bills. I eat. I have benefits

Cons

Insane workloads that are so impossible it is unreal. These people - the leaders - do NOT care about their employees. They care about #'s... productivity. Extremely unfair to the general public. They want so many disability decisions processed in a short period of time. Many are allowed when they should have been denied, and vice versa. Allowances that should have been denied are a significant burden on the taxpaying public. I also see a lot of denials that probably should have been allowed... this is unfair to a claimant who might be on the verge of losing his house. SSA is a detriment to employees and the general public alike. Terrible place to work.

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flexibility, teleworking, pay, and holidays off cool work environment.

Cons

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The Program Expert (PE - direct supervisor) and my Branch Chief (Manager) were amazing. Those two individuals bent over backwards to try to get me the RAs I needed, and were honestly the only reason I stayed as long as I did. They were super nice and supportive, but it ended up being a bad fit for me. My Branch Chief did also allow me OT as Comp Time, up to 11 hours per day, to complete my workload, which I took full advantage of.

Cons

I have a disability that causes me to work much slower - about twice as long to complete my workload - as other employees. I took my appeal for reasonable accommodations to the National Reasonable Accommodations Coordinator (NRAC) at the time. I submitted updated medical information towards my appeal. I got a letter from the NRAC that due to the updated medical information, I was "no longer qualified" for my position. Since they only have to give RAs to "qualified" employees, I was fired the same day I received that letter.

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