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Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: The unmerited edge

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And what did they all do to merit the position of harassing?  Merely a negation of something never earned:  Not getting sick; not becoming crippled with a medical condition; not having a medical disability.  Of what accolades should be showered for that?  Why is it that the person whose only success in life is a negation of nothingness, should have any edge at all, merited, unmerited or otherwise?  Life often makes no sense; and, while the concept of “fairness” is quite a subjective one, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Scoffing paradigms

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Of course, such a title can have a double entendre or duality of meanings – that, in the first instance, the accent is upon the word “scoffing” with a lowering of one’s voice upon “paradigms”, and that would mean: One turns up one’s nose at the very idea of paradigms. Or, alternatively, if both words are of equally monotonous tonal undulations, then it could mean that the paradigm itself is one which scoffs at other paradigms, differing principles or contrary perspectives. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Minding the ‘happiness principle’

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Is there such a thing?  Certainly, enough authors, gurus and faith-healers have claimed it, packaged it and sold it as a commodity to be prepared, marketed and purchased.  Somehow, we are all gullible enough to believe in it:  Just as sorcerers of old possessed powers beyond human comprehension, so we hold on to the hope that such secrets of soothsayers mixing the concoction in a cauldron of expectations may boil over with fumes and aromas we can smell into oblivion.  That secret incantation; those mysterious sequence of codes  […] Read More …