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	SSA has proposed to suspend one of your co-workers for 2 days for doing their job. SSA said they wanted the oral presentation to be Friday afternoon at 1 pm. SSA didn't tell us that we had 1/2 hour because the ARC-MOS had to be at the Regional Commissioner's New Years Celebration scheduled to start at 1:30!! SSA was adamant that we could NOT make a face-to-face, in person presentation. We had to do it by phone. Now I understand why. When you read the email exchange, you can see for yourself that the ARC-MOS self-righteously proclaims, " I am confident that I will be able to make the best decision possible..." Yeah, right! Please feel free to let Joy.Chang@ssa.gov know how you feel. If it were YOU, would you be grateful and appreciative for Ms Chang to give you 1/2 an hour of her most valuable phone time before her boss' New Years Celebration? Would you be confident that you were getting the best decision possible or would you be confident that your suspension was going to be rubber stamped and you were being railroaded?! As you can see from the email exchange, SSA let the employees it is NOT disciplining make their case face-to-face. The one they have decided to suspend...I'm sorry, I mean PROPOSED (wink, wink) to suspend, can't make their case face-to-face to their executioner... I mean the deciding official. SSA's top regional people are cloistered away in their Ivory Tower. They can deal with production numbers and lists of pending that must be cleared by Friday, but when it comes to looking real employees in the eye, when it comes to seeing a real employee who is going to suffer the fallout from their decisions, they only pay lip service to how "very seriously" they take their responsibilities. I don't doubt for a moment that they are confident and more comfortable filleting an employee over the phone than they are face-to-face, in person. Funny, I thought SSA was a face-to-face agency where if some one wants a sit down meeting, be it a claim or personal conference, we will accommodate them. Too bad the top SSA leaders can't treat us the same way they require us to treat the public. Just another example of their failure to lead; just another example of their hypocrisy: do as I say, not as I do. If SSA management isn't willing to look into the faces of the employees they are victimizing with their decision, they should find another line of work! Please read the entire exchange. SSA thinks that employees will buy any bull they dish out to us. Their words to us reek of insincerity and contempt.for us! This is what AFGE fights every day. In the words of AFGE National Secretary-Treasurer, J. David Cox, "If you got a boss, you NEED a UNION!"
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