merlin436
Forum Member
Last Activity: Today, 05:24 AM
Joined: 03-29-2005
Location: North America
-
When it comes to the Poly, my opinion doesn't matter. Your opinion doesn't matter. The opinion of 99.9% of the agency doesn't matter. What does matter is the opinion of that handful of people who run the Poly program and those folk like the poly. They see the odd success in getting someone to admit... -
The Poly is going nowhere. Learn to live with it. -
@V_AntCBP,
It's a mean average. Lots of mean averages in OFO really aren't that meaningful on the individual basis because they take in all the people on either extreme, mash them with the middle, and come up with a number which often doesn't reflect the usual, normal person all that well.... -
As long as you are comfortable rolling the dice on yourself, your family and your initial employment costs...good luck with it. -
-
Currently, both hinges and chain cuffs are on the authorized equipment list. I believe the current standard issue is the SW model 100 chain cuffs but if your willing to buy your own, carry anything approved. -
The actual uniform policy on boots is rather vague. The academy's views on footwear are far more discriminating than that of the field. If it was me, I'd pick up something conservative and polishable for the academy. Once a person is at the port, off training status and done with probation, then wear... -
Generally, conventional wisdom has it that applying for a provisional clearance makes sense if...
You are convinced that there are no skeletons in your closet and the closets of your immediate family...If you're all squeaky clean there ought not to be issues.
Or, if you might have... -
Average age? Probably around late 20's-early 30's.
Historically, OFO used to hire lots of older, more experienced people in their late 30's, 40's, 50's and beyond. Once 12D retirement came into play in 2008, with it's "mandated" maximum hiring age, far fewer older people get hired... -
You are neither too young or too inexperienced. Apply. -
GS-09 applicants pretty much all are either going to be former federal employees or those with some extensive employment history. They might move faster simply because this isn't their first rodeo. -
One, ask your port to schedule you so your weekend falls on the days preceding your academy travel day so you can travel home. Two, ask your port to book you a flight from your home town instead of your port town so you can avoid traveling back to your port.
Now, maybe they'll accommodate... -
The 30 training day Spanish training, if you need to attend it, is at Glynco. As is the 89 training day basic academy. Pre-academy and post-academy training is at your port. -
Green Valley is another option...between Tucson and Rio Rico. -
Tucson is an excellent mid-sized city about 70 miles up the Interstate from Nogales.
Happy wife equals happy life...especially working as a CBPO who's looking to make the big dollars riding the OT gravy train. -
Post academy is typically 35-37 weeks...or so.
And reaching the 45K cap is almost a guaranteed hard cap...which means no likely waiver. It also includes differential money... That means scheduling changes...if you typically work afternoons/midnights/Sundays and holidays. -
Another thing...If somebody left OFO as an GS-11 step 05 he either is in some sort of odd circumstance like an attempt to pay match from a previous federal position...or he left years ago before 2010 when GS-11 pay was journeyman/senior level. -
It really depends on circumstances.
In a port with high locality pay and/or plentiful overtime availability, one should be able to make 100K as a low-level journeyman GS-12...maybe even as a GS-11. In a default RUS location in an average port as a low-level journeyman GS-12...maybe make... -
Well, they are 12D retirement covered...for one. Better GL payscale as well.
For another, BOP pays far less than what the average journeyman CBPO makes. -
The BP time-to-hire numbers are not all that relevant to OFO hiring. The OFO average was 318 days in FY17.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...usg=AOvVaw28JT...
No activity results to display