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Security clearance is done, but still waiting on medical. They want even more records, going back 7 years on my bloodwork and treatment for the severe anemia. Ugh. Keep in mind I've moved like every 2 years so that's a lot of medical record requests to get out and get back. I'm working with them and have told them that it will certainly take longer than the 2 week deadline that they gave me. Sooooo still waiting waiting waiting. And still haven't heard the PNQ results for the IRO position, should be any day now. Also I had a good interview for a regular federal position very close to home (I could walk to work in good weather) and they are checking my references now so maybe that will pan out. The people I work with at my current job are awesome but the actual job...meh not so much. It's really fleshing out my resume though!
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Looks like a LES member of the Sanaa RSO shop was assassinated. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/11/us-yemen-assassination-idUSBRE89A0F820121011
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pamchenko posted:Phenomenal. And a perfect description. And that is now Zoots' auto-message on office communicator. Meanwhile, it's 2025 on a virtual Friday night, and I'm sitting around waiting for my boss to clear on a cable. I'd bitch, except A) my villa is a 25-second walk from my desk and B) what the gently caress else is there to do in Tripoli?
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Tyro posted:Looks like a LES member of the Sanaa RSO shop was assassinated. Yeah, that's hit pretty close to home to everyone here. Twenty years in... that means he could have immigrated with his family to the US at any time he wanted, but he chose to stick around. How horrible.
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the_chavi posted:And that is now Zoots' auto-message on office communicator. Last night I was dumb enough to (A) still be on my work email at 2300 on "Friday" and then (B) to answer an email from our front office that came in at 2305. Ugh, note to self, just sign out of your work email, there was no reason for that.
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It will never get old seeing official documents using the phrase "Pussy Riot." Bonus points if they get creative with the sentence.
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Question for you FSOs who have worked in consular. I'm an immigration attorney, and most of my work (heavy E-2 practice) is via consular process. How much time does an officer typically spend adjudicating one of these packets? I've had much better luck with State adjudications than changes of status to E-2 via USCIS. The California Service Center in particular has been awful with RFEs this year. Do you guys ever make RFEs, or do you flat-out deny packets that are lacking tabs or data? More generally, how often do you get applications from represented parties that are complete garbage?
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Confirming that playing the new X-Com on Classic difficulty, with your troops named after co-workers is utterly hilarious. Seriously, not even sending them on suicide missions, all my dudes named after my FSNs have bit it early on. The Ambo, on the other hand, is an unstoppable juggernaut in ridiculous armor wielding a fuckoff huge laser minigun, slaying bodies and giving no fucks whatsoever, while my deputy chief casually pops the heads of anything that is left. 
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Diplomaticus posted:my FSNs have bit it early on. The Ambo, on the other hand, is an unstoppable juggernaut in ridiculous armor wielding a fuckoff huge laser minigun, slaying bodies and giving no fucks whatsoever, while my deputy chief casually pops the heads of anything that is left. ForeignService.txt
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Oct 12, 2012 22:22
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Bids submitted. Commence  . Hoping I did the whole lobbying thing correctly.
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Oct 13, 2012 14:28
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Zoots posted:Bids submitted. Commence If you are still unsure what job you're going to get, then there is still room for improvement.
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Business of Ferrets posted:If you are still unsure what job you're going to get, then there is still room for improvement. It takes at least one time of me completely loving something up to understand how to do it properly. EERs work that way, which is why I got to go to the extra-special third round of tenure review. (And promptly got promoted 28 days after I was tenured.) Same for bidding - my first time I had no idea what was going on; second time around I have a pretty good idea of who will or won't make me a job offer.
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Diplomaticus posted:Confirming that playing the new X-Com on Classic difficulty, with your troops named after co-workers is utterly hilarious. I right there with yea, buddy. Let me know if you ever need a reference for your transition to DS.
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Business of Ferrets posted:If you are still unsure what job you're going to get, then there is still room for improvement. Crap.
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Zoots posted:Guess I answered my own question. I knew what job I *should* be getting two months ago. All the cool kids already have the good jobs lined up in April/May. You're way behind the curve if you're still looking at jobs when bidding opens.
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TCD posted:I knew what job I *should* be getting two months ago. If it is a question of 'should' -- then I should be landing alright. But it is the very notion of 'should' that causes me discomfort. I thankfully had some good folks going to bat for me. I was more expressing my frustration at the mercurial process of bidding. Were I just starting bidding in the last couple of weeks I think I'd be really up a creek. Then again, other diplomatic corps have vastly more head-scratching processes. A friend over at another Euro embassy said they just send off a list and hope HR gives them something good.
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Zoots posted:If it is a question of 'should' -- then I should be landing alright. But it is the very notion of 'should' that causes me discomfort. I thankfully had some good folks going to bat for me. Yeah, most people I've talked to are essentially in directed assignment their entire career.
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Zoots posted:Then again, other diplomatic corps have vastly more head-scratching processes. A friend over at another Euro embassy said they just send off a list and hope HR gives them something good. Even ours is more random than State's. To me the idea that if you don't have something more or less sewn up when bidding starts, you're doing it wrong, is incredibly amusing.
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And of course, they don't teach you any of that in A-100. In other news, 4 Globetrotters has a recap from the attack in Tunis.
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My girlfriend and I just submitted our applications for the FSOT. She's shooting for consular and I'm aiming for management. Now comes the waiting/studying game.
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Oct 13, 2012 21:28
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Zoots posted:Were I just starting bidding in the last couple of weeks I think I'd be really up a creek. Oh, you mean the position I'm in? 
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Oct 13, 2012 21:39
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I'm still getting people emailing me about my position for the first time. In October, really?
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Diplomaticus posted:I'm still getting people emailing me about my position for the first time. In October, really? #desperation
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Diplomaticus posted:I'm still getting people emailing me about my position for the first time. In October, really? 
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Oh bidding... I swear I'm not counting anything until I see a TM1.
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hey mtreecorner: do you do any IPC work? I got training with one of your LES tomorrow.
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Skandiaavity posted:hey mtreecorner: do you do any IPC work? I got training with one of your LES tomorrow. Thought tree was an OMS?
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TCD posted:I knew what job I *should* be getting two months ago. Hard to do that in EUR where bureau can and will disregard your number one pick if they feel like it. I'm just glad to be on a short list or two in EUR, especially since one is my #1 pick. Hell some people I know are lining up jobs a year before they bid. It's madness and I hope I don't have to start doing that.
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Got a question for folks over on the fsgoons group.
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Sorry, I haven't been on the board in a while. It has been an insane month. Sana'a is very unique in terms of a FS experience it seems. The people here are great but unfortuately the world isn't so nice. Tyro posted:Looks like a LES member of the Sanaa RSO shop was assassinated. Yes, it was very sad. I never met him but it hit very close to home for a lot of the community here. Our local staff is great and to see this happen is very sobering. Between this, the protests last month, and the attack in Banghazi... Skandiaavity posted:hey mtreecorner: do you do any IPC work? I got training with one of your LES tomorrow. Nope. I'm an OMS. But like I said, our LESers are great. Hope the training goes well. mtreecorner fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Oct 15, 2012 |
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ATI Jesus posted:Hard to do that in EUR where bureau can and will disregard your number one pick if they feel like it. Right... same boat I suppose 
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I wish I could take the BEX today and get it over with 
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What questions do they usually ask during your first interviews ? I have an interview coming up soon, but not with the US Foreign Service (not US citizen). I think i'm hosed, i don't really read up on world events except hearing about the huge ones and don't have an opinion on most things. I applied for the corporate services/consular type of position though, so i pray they don't ask me anything too deep.
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Vasudus posted:I wish I could take the BEX today and get it over with I sympathize. My BEX was delayed almost 2 months due to Snowpacalypse in DC. The worst thing about these sorts of exams is waiting for them.
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dlink posted:What questions do they usually ask during your first interviews ? We have an NDA on the actual content of what they ask, so we couldn't say. But my experience is that other country's foreign services have markedly different entry processes, so I wouldn't necessarily expect it to be similar anyway.
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Skandiaavity posted:Yeah, that class will be after Applied Systems. The guy who went to Riydah's is Mr. Timmons and he loves cars. Congratulations!
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dlink posted:What questions do they usually ask during your first interviews ? Cultural/society norms aside, some of the advice given - such as sounding confident, remaining in communication with managers and/or checking policies/law if you're unsure, should be viable. If you can learn that skill then you should do well in almost any kind of interview with some research.
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Written exam doesn't have spell checker does it? Because boy, am I going to get hosed for my over reliance on autocorrect.
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Oct 18, 2012 01:12
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Vasudus posted:Written exam doesn't have spell checker does it?
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Vasudus posted:Written exam doesn't have spell checker does it? It doesn't make any sense either because, outside of the exam, when do we not have auto correct?
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