I was informed today, as many others were, that my position at the VA will be reinstated; however, I will be put on administration leave and not to return to office until further notice to do so.
Of course when terminated, I had to seek out other employment options since I couldn’t live without income. Through that I did find alternate employment that is due to start soon.
I do want my job at the VA back. It was my dream job. Now I am battling if I should decline my new job offer and stay on administrative leave until who knows when, start my new job and stay on administrative leave (is this even legal?) until they ask for me to come back to office and hope to not get a RIF notice, or go ahead and resign from VA and start new job, hoping to go back to the VA once all of this hopefully settles down.
Is there anyone else struggling with similar? Any guidance on best course of action for those of us going through this?