reflecting on emotional tone from the legal angle

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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Postal and Federal Medical Retirement: The Concealment of Emoticons

Posted onNovember 18, 2014March 9, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

They replace the true face of humanity. Pasted with a quick tap of a computer keyboard, they allegedly represent the state of emotional being of a person, at a given time, within a granted context, in the course of an interplay accomplished in diatribes of virtual reality. Contrast such antiseptic encounters with the profound agony felt in Anton Chekhov’s short story, “Grief” (or sometimes otherwise entitled, “Misery”), and one begins to comprehend the depths of distancing depravity that people have fallen to in an attempt to bifurcate humanity from personal contact. […]

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Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: The Angle

Posted onJanuary 15, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Angles are formed by two rays sharing a common endpoint; or, alternatively, it is defined by an attempt to achieve an end through indirect or artful means. Both definitions tend to share a common thread — of not being “straight” with the intended goal. In the 1954 classic […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Understanding the Other

Posted onOctober 11, 2013February 3, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

Leo Strauss was a noted philosopher who taught for many years at the University of Chicago. His works have a common thread throughout: to understand the works of others as the “others” understood themselves, and not from a modern perspective. […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Responding to Stupidity

Posted onOctober 8, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Sometimes, one’s initial reaction in a situation — professional setting, social discourse, event gathering, etc. — requires a momentary pause; and it is precisely that couple of seconds of gathering one’s thoughts which saves one from further putting fuel upon […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Emotional Quotient

Posted onSeptember 18, 2013July 22, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

To “walk in another person’s shoes” is a sentiment which attempts to foster empathy for the plight of another. We tend to believe that if the “other person” had an understanding of the entirety of one’s circumstances, that there would awaken an altered perspective. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Narrative of Emotion

Posted onJune 20, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Often, when one has been embroiled in a prolonged battle with another person, an organization, agency, etc., the embattled state itself takes on a life of its own, and decisions which should be based upon a rational perspective, what is in one’s best interest, etc., are cast aside. […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: The Proper Balance

Posted onFebruary 19, 2011AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The Office of Personnel Management has sent out a number of denials in recent weeks, and the undersigned attorney has had multiple opportunities to review many of the cases […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Don’t Overstate the Case

Posted onApril 25, 2010AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is important to have an objective tone in one’s Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS. This is inherently difficult, of course, if one is representing […] Read More …