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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Those are all for career employees. When you first start you are some kind of "assistant" which means no paid vacation, no medical for a year, no TSP, the time you work doesn't count toward tour retirement multiple. This status used to go on for an indefinite time, many were in 3-5 years before converting to career. Now they made it automatic after 2 years but still. That's a long 2 years when everything is run by seniority and there is only a single $.50/hr raise baked in the whole time. Also if an aera is short, those people are forced to work pretty consistently 60 hours and many places deliver 7 days a week.
Edit: I was wrong about the health benifits, the PO will contribute $3250, towards a health plan your first year. That probably changed with the ACA. Your 2nd year it's 65% of whatever plan you choose.
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My previous job gave pay cuts somewhere around my 5th year. By my 7th year, pay raises had brought it back up to where it was when I started. 2 weeks paid vacation. Benefits never changed (though they became more costly). My 8th year I put in my 2 week notice, but they accepted my offer to stay for a 25% pay increase. 3 years later I moved on.
2 year probation is nothing.