emotional issues are understandable but don’t let them ruin your application

OPM Medical Retirement Lawyer: Acrylic Acrimonies

Posted onNovember 28, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

It usually refers to paints, but is technically an acid used to form polymers, and may be mixed in order to manufacture compound elements for plastic and other synthetic products. The second part of the short alliteration refers to the bitterness which develops when failure, or a perceived failure, begins to gnaw at the edges of sanity. The slow, incremental, eating away at a life of accomplishment and productivity, can come when once the self-discipline of setting insurmountable parameters has been ignored or otherwise untended. Bitterness is a state of regret, reserved for old men and furies left uncontrolled. […]

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Hostile Work Environment in Federal Employment

Posted onSeptember 16, 2014September 23, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Perhaps it is an inevitability. When a Federal employee or a U.S. Postal worker suffers from a medical condition, such that the medical condition begins to impact one or more of the essential elements of one’s job, the reaction of the agency for whom he or she works (or the U.S. Postal Service), is often one of lack of supportive behaviors, to propose an understatement.

Reacting to a reactionary response, however, is not always the intelligent thing to do. When the Federal employee or the U.S. Postal Service recognizes a need to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: The Narrative & the Audience

Posted onJuly 6, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney5 Comments

Anton Chekhov’s short story, “Grief”, is often accompanied by a subtitle, variously interpreted as, “To whom shall I share my grief?” It is both about the need inherent in human nature to tell one’s story of grief, as well as the cold, unreceptive world which has no time […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Substance and the Spaces in Between

Posted onOctober 4, 2012November 17, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The philosophical conundrum involving the ability to distinguish between dreams and reality, rests upon a fundamental confusion on the part of the thinker: one would not be able to discuss […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Service Disability Retirement: The Workplace

Posted onNovember 9, 2009AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

When a Federal or Postal employee is considering filing for Federal Disability retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, there are many and varying conflicting responses, wrapped and […] Read More …