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Not sure if it counts but Rice Market on 14th is one of my favorite places to grab East/Southeast Asian grocery in town. Pretty well stocked with some of the stuff others don't carry (i.e. frozen tteokbokki, Lee Kum Kee Premium Oyster Sauce, a pretty broad range of chili crisps, etc.)

Great place to grab baked goods if you're in walking distance. They bring in bagels from Bullfrog and baguettes/sourdough loaves from A Baked Joint.

interesting, care to share a source for your data?

If they're offering more than what you make now, you won't have much luck negotiating. My agency told me they'll go to about a Step 4 in negotiations, and anything beyond that would require the Director's approval.

DC gov won't do this for a mid level position.

My friend was offered a ton of leave when they went government for a lower salary since they couldn’t match the difference. He started with like a month of leave or something

Could be an option to ask for depending on how much you value time vs money

> I’d like to ask for about 5k more than the max which would match my current salary in the private sector.

I assume this means that with a certain grade, the pay for the max step is $5,000 below your current salary. Whether you can get the max step is office dependent but there is no mechanism to go above the max step except for maybe a hiring bonus (and if the advertisement doesn’t mention a hiring bonus, there isn’t one). You can provide pay stubs to ask for the max bonus, a couple should suffice, and it depends on office if they consider things like bonus or commission (no idea if that applies to you). If they counter and say “this is the best we got” (whether that changes or not), that’s what they can do, and since you’re mid-level, they’ll probably just go to the next candidate after that.

If it is a CS position or any other non-management level position, you will have little success, but may be agency specific. At least with my agency, all CS positions are unions who set the standards for where new hires fall within the pay grade and then yearly step increases. No new hires are able to negotiate a different salary.

If management level, you should be able to negotiate successfully, pending the hiring department has the funds to give over the minimum starting. I was successfully able to negotiate for mine.

My husband was able to negotiate up a few steps when entering the government. It did extend his time to get his final offer and he had to provide evidence to support the request

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Crime doesn't exist if you just legalize it.

Un- means not. Housed means to have a permanent residence (i.e., a home). You know what a person is I assume. I didn’t realize there were second graders on Reddit, but if you put all of that information together, you’ll know what an unhoused person is.

Unhoused? Some call them campers. In DC they are well fed.

SCOTUS leak?

How else would you treat substance abuse, insecurity, and lack of confidence?

Pathologizing at the earliest stages is the best approach to root the problem before it exponentially exacerbates. The gun violence stage is waaaay too late.

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Can we stop pathologizing everything, including crime? People in DC mostly aren't shooting each other because of mental illness, but because of material interests (drugs, turf) and cultural attitudes (machismo, honor, "beef").

"When Council member Janeese Lewis George asked Geldart how he tracks the success of the D.C. police, he referred to the impact made by a specific tactical operation to target and remove a neighborhood crew in Congress Heights.

“On MLK and Malcolm X right there where, you know, we did 13 arrests in like two days, we saw 60% reduction in violent crime that stayed for three months. We’re still seeing a reduction of 60%. That’s the metric; that’s what I’m looking at,” Geldart said.

A shooting near that intersection last July took the life of 6-year-old Nyiah Courtney."

https://wtop.com/dc/2022/01/dcs-geldart-illegal-guns-coming-into-district-from-southern-states/

So no, some amount of crime will always exist. However, removing known violent criminals from communities can make those communities safer.

We need to offer robust community services that provide opportunities for at-risk people, support services for society at large, and hold people accountable for gun crimes and violent crime for the sake of the rest of the community. Letting repeat offenders continue to inflict trauma on the rest of their community does nobody good.

No need. Crime isn't really happening in DC these days.

Spending another half billion per year on police should make it disappear, right?

Ohh my bad thanks! I was there when he filmed it and I got the actions confused.

I'm just going to take some hydroxychloroquine and DC crime will just disappear like a miracle by Easter.

Well there are 3 people looking down at something

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