Wright-Patterson Air Force Base tops 30K employees for first time in 30 years

Looking for a job just got easier if you are interested in defense work in Dayton.

My only concern surrounding things like this is “over employment”. During the most recent civilian layoffs, we were called to shutdown all operations and report to a Wing CC call. During that CC call, he brought up the point of 30% of the civilian work force being laid off. We were told, “If you work in an area that doesn’t take breaks, start taking breaks. Don’t get I’m such a hurry to answer that phone call. Let it ring a little. If you typically allow walk ins, in between appointments, you may need to cut back on those. If you’re active duty, don’t stay late. Make sure that you leave the work area for lunch. Additional duties can wait. We need the public to notice that our civilians are missing...”. 30% of the work force was out and we had to MAKE people notice. Yet, when it comes to uniformed personnel, doing more with less is something that we need to get over? If we have to force the recognition of civilians missing from the duty section, seems to me that is 30% too many people in the work section. I can remember working in civilian healthcare and our hospital being bought by another company. They cut 150 positions and no one noticed. If those jobs are there to ensure program integrity and continuity (instead of rotating a new stripe chaser through every 12-24 months) I think it’s great. But if we are bumping the cost to the tax payer for a 3-4 hour product in an 8 hour work day at 25-30% higher rate than local market value for the sake of a senate seat, I’m not too sure.