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Daily Archives: February 3, 2025

PSA: Backup Your eOPF and Payroll Records

Link to entire Guide: “If you haven’t already backed up your Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) and payroll records, now is the time to do it. It’s a quick process that ensures you have all your important documents saved in one place, rather than downloading them manually one by one. This method will allow you to download everything in just two PDF files—one for your eOPF and another for your payroll records—saving you time and frustration. Many people don’t realize that bulk downloads are possible, and this approach makes the entire process simple and efficient. There’s no good reason not to do this. It doesn’t take much time, and it’s better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Step 1: Downloading Your eOPF

Your eOPF contains critical employment records, including SF-50s, performance reviews, and other key personnel documents. Instead of downloading each file manually, you can use the built-in bulk download option.
How to Download Your eOPF in Bulk

  • Navigate to the My eOPF Print Folder tab.
  • Select all available documents.
  • Choose either Print Single-Sided or Print Double-Sided to generate a consolidated PDF.

CFPB halts work after Trump appoints Bessent as acting head

Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau halted much of its work to investigate and penalize corporate wrongdoing Monday, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — tapped to lead the watchdog on an acting basis — ordered an agency-wide review to “promote consistency” with the new Trump administration. Shortly after assuming the post, Bessent and… Continue Reading

Heads Up for Government Employees – How Elon Musk Says He Catches Leakers at His Companies

This Intercept article is from December 2022 but has all the hallmarks of what Musk and DOGE are now perpetrating within our federal government agencies, using OPM, GSA and Treasury’s massive databases of fiscal,  financial data and PII, on all Americans. …To begin with, a wide array of document watermarking measures can identify the source… Continue Reading

OpenAI’s ‘Deep Research’ Gives Students a Whole New Way to Cheat on Papers

Gizmodo: “Very few former students can claim they never wrote a last-minute research paper the night before it was due. AI tools are already giving students all new ways to fake their papers. Now, OpenAI’s new “Deep Research” tool seems perfectly designed to help students fake their way through a term paper unless asked to cite… Continue Reading

Deferred Resignation Email to Federal Employees, January 28, 2025 – updated Feb 4, 2025

Via LLRX – Deferred Resignation Email to Federal Employees, January 28, 2025 – updated Feb 4, 2025 – I have updated this article with links to new documents pertaining to directives made by non government civilians to federal government employees to resign their jobs using a purported buyout offer. The emails and “offers” were not… Continue Reading

Data brokers can keep selling your social security number, says new CFPB chief

The Verge: “Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent has been named the Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the bureau announced today. Bessent quickly instructed the agency to “to stop all rulemaking, communications, litigation, and other activities,” reports Bloomberg Law. A source inside the CFPB told Bloomberg Law that his order “appeared to shut… Continue Reading

Fast fires

Reuters Graphics: “Fires are growing faster in the western United States. The fastest of them – termed “fast fires” – often erupt near towns and account for most structural wildfire damage according to researchers who analyzed over 60,000 fires from 2001 to 2020. Fast fires grow about 4,000 acres or more on their fastest day,… Continue Reading

Mapped: The Top Import Partner of Every U.S. State

Visual Capitalist: “The Trump administration is imposing a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico [this is on hold for one month – maybe] and Canada, along with a 10% tariff on imports from China. The U.S. President says he wants strong action to halt the flow of the opioid fentanyl and its precursor chemicals into… Continue Reading