Screw ups at NIH

There are so many of us at NIH who are the only ones left in our competitive areas, despite our colleagues getting RIF notices that say all individuals in the targeted competitive areas were being separated. Branches that have been "eliminated" but have one or two random people left. Some seem to be administrative errors, but many seem to have the commonality of filling out an NIH interest form for VERA and/or VSIP but declining or not being eligible. So here we are. Unmoored out at sea.

NIH knows nothing about any next steps. HHS powers that be, are you lurking here? Do you have plans to come back for us and put us out of our misery? Or do we continue to sleep with one eye open for the rest of our careers?