the reason why some federal employees will pretend to be totally healthy is for fear that their medical conditions will prevent them from continuing employment

OPM Disability Retirement: Accommodations and the Elegance of the Hedgehog

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A French film (The Hedgehog) loosely following upon the novel (The Elegance of the Hedgehog), focuses upon the hidden life of an unnoticed individual, and through her providing a platform of unraveling the fears, aspirations, class differences and how we treat […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Life as Episodic Declarations

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One wonders whether harm is not being perpetrated upon the youth, in the manner in which reality is presented. Many seem to believe that reality is that which occurs on Facebook, Twitter, or some form of electronic media; and the interconnected nature of relevance […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Fear & Darkness

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The veil of darkness provides a contrast; for the predator, it allows for an advantage in stalking its prey; for the prey, the shimmering shadows reverberate of the unknown, but still, if one remains calm and quiet, an equality of disadvantage is allowed for, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: The Inauthentic Life

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The converse of a life of inauthenticity, of course, is one in which there exists not a chasm between one’s appearance and the substantive content of one’s character; duplicity and a secret life are contradictions; integrity is the consonance between one’s stated […] Read More …