I see why people think federal employees are lazy

[Anonymous]

I recently became a federal employee and I'm being pulled in 50 different directions making it very hard to complete any work. I literally have 10 different high priority tasks on my plate right now with deadlines looming. We are definitely understaffed and do not have any more money in the budget to bring someone else on.

So now I see why people think feds are lazy. People think we get no work done, but the reality is there is too much work and not enough people to get everything done on time.

Rant over!

[Anonymous]

Hire me? I worked at startups delivering 3 people’s workload.

[Anonymous]

Are you taking an early lunch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you taking an early lunch?

Op here. Lol! I actually am. I start my day at 6am so lunch time is usually around 1030-1130am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hire me? I worked at startups delivering 3 people’s workload.

Op here. You should apply through usajobs! We have no money for new hires!

[Anonymous]

What agency is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hire me? I worked at startups delivering 3 people’s workload.

I’ve worked at startups and at in Federal.

Sure you wear many hats in startup world, but there is clearer priorities and triage. In gov everything is “important” and urgent, in fact especially time consuming administrative and reporting tasks.

Also, unless you are a founder at startup, you are an underpaid patsy. Get a job at a FAANG or gov

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hire me? I worked at startups delivering 3 people’s workload.

I’ve worked at startups and at in Federal.

Sure you wear many hats in startup world, but there is clearer priorities and triage. In gov everything is “important” and urgent, in fact especially time consuming administrative and reporting tasks.

Also, unless you are a founder at startup, you are an underpaid patsy. Get a job at a FAANG or gov

NP, you obviously have zero idea how well paid people at start ups are. My husband specifically seeks out start ups because of the comp and the IPO potential. Start Ups have to give our incredible packages to attract talent. Where he’s at now, not only is he paid a base of 320k, our health insurance is 100% employer paid, he gets alll fed holidays, plus one mental health day a month, plus 5 volunteer days a year, this is in addition to his “unlimited” PTO.

A fun benefit is help for your dependent high school and college students with their writing. They have a service that are professional editors and English teachers where you can turn a paper in and they will send you back corrections and suggestions. My son had help writing 3 college essays, which went through about a half dozen revisions and he got into NYU Stern for finance with below the average SATs and GPA and no hook. I have no doubt the essay sealed the deal.

Start ups pay very well if you have the stomach for risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hire me? I worked at startups delivering 3 people’s workload.

I’ve worked at startups and at in Federal.

Sure you wear many hats in startup world, but there is clearer priorities and triage. In gov everything is “important” and urgent, in fact especially time consuming administrative and reporting tasks.

Also, unless you are a founder at startup, you are an underpaid patsy. Get a job at a FAANG or gov

NP, you obviously have zero idea how well paid people at start ups are. My husband specifically seeks out start ups because of the comp and the IPO potential. Start Ups have to give our incredible packages to attract talent. Where he’s at now, not only is he paid a base of 320k, our health insurance is 100% employer paid, he gets alll fed holidays, plus one mental health day a month, plus 5 volunteer days a year, this is in addition to his “unlimited” PTO.

A fun benefit is help for your dependent high school and college students with their writing. They have a service that are professional editors and English teachers where you can turn a paper in and they will send you back corrections and suggestions. My son had help writing 3 college essays, which went through about a half dozen revisions and he got into NYU Stern for finance with below the average SATs and GPA and no hook. I have no doubt the essay sealed the deal.

Start ups pay very well if you have the stomach for risk.

...and he's still seeking, huh? Hasn't retired on his IPO

[Anonymous]

Bureaucracy feeds on itself and creates its own extensive busywork. Administrative tasks begets more administrative tasks. Yes, government work is not productive. It's a slow, massive beast that operates on a very different timescale and answers to a very different master (or rather, no master). Most employees are in their jobs because it is easy. Busywork isn't the same as challenging.

I had a government job and left after two years. At my first private sector job I accomplished more in six months than most of my old gov't coworkers did in six years.

I will allow that the very cream of the crop, perhaps the top 5% of Fed employees, are genuinely accomplished people. But the rest are seeking to coast till retirement without working too hard.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a learned a lesson about stereotypes and not judging until you've walked in someone else's shoes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hire me? I worked at startups delivering 3 people’s workload.

I’ve worked at startups and at in Federal.

Sure you wear many hats in startup world, but there is clearer priorities and triage. In gov everything is “important” and urgent, in fact especially time consuming administrative and reporting tasks.

Also, unless you are a founder at startup, you are an underpaid patsy. Get a job at a FAANG or gov

NP, you obviously have zero idea how well paid people at start ups are. My husband specifically seeks out start ups because of the comp and the IPO potential. Start Ups have to give our incredible packages to attract talent. Where he’s at now, not only is he paid a base of 320k, our health insurance is 100% employer paid, he gets alll fed holidays, plus one mental health day a month, plus 5 volunteer days a year, this is in addition to his “unlimited” PTO.

Haha, that stuck out to me as well. When our startup IPO'ed, we ended up with 8 figures each. No need for more startups.

A fun benefit is help for your dependent high school and college students with their writing. They have a service that are professional editors and English teachers where you can turn a paper in and they will send you back corrections and suggestions. My son had help writing 3 college essays, which went through about a half dozen revisions and he got into NYU Stern for finance with below the average SATs and GPA and no hook. I have no doubt the essay sealed the deal.

Start ups pay very well if you have the stomach for risk.

...and he's still seeking, huh? Hasn't retired on his IPO

[Anonymous]

I mean, there's a reason why the saying is "good enough for government work!"

Everything in my section is simply about getting the project/task completed, not doing an outstanding job. That pretty much has to be the mentality when a section that used to have 12 employees is down to 7 (5 right now while 1 is on maternity leave & 1 on FMLA). There's been a freeze on new hires since mid-2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

NP, you obviously have zero idea how well paid people at start ups are. My husband specifically seeks out start ups because of the comp and the IPO potential. Start Ups have to give our incredible packages to attract talent. Where he’s at now, not only is he paid a base of 320k, our health insurance is 100% employer paid, he gets alll fed holidays, plus one mental health day a month, plus 5 volunteer days a year, this is in addition to his “unlimited” PTO.

A fun benefit is help for your dependent high school and college students with their writing. They have a service that are professional editors and English teachers where you can turn a paper in and they will send you back corrections and suggestions. My son had help writing 3 college essays, which went through about a half dozen revisions and he got into NYU Stern for finance with below the average SATs and GPA and no hook. I have no doubt the essay sealed the deal.

Start ups pay very well if you have the stomach for risk.

Do you know who they hire for this service? Asking for a friend!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hire me? I worked at startups delivering 3 people’s workload.

I’ve worked at startups and at in Federal.

Sure you wear many hats in startup world, but there is clearer priorities and triage. In gov everything is “important” and urgent, in fact especially time consuming administrative and reporting tasks.

Also, unless you are a founder at startup, you are an underpaid patsy. Get a job at a FAANG or gov

NP, you obviously have zero idea how well paid people at start ups are. My husband specifically seeks out start ups because of the comp and the IPO potential. Start Ups have to give our incredible packages to attract talent. Where he’s at now, not only is he paid a base of 320k, our health insurance is 100% employer paid, he gets alll fed holidays, plus one mental health day a month, plus 5 volunteer days a year, this is in addition to his “unlimited” PTO.

A fun benefit is help for your dependent high school and college students with their writing. They have a service that are professional editors and English teachers where you can turn a paper in and they will send you back corrections and suggestions. My son had help writing 3 college essays, which went through about a half dozen revisions and he got into NYU Stern for finance with below the average SATs and GPA and no hook. I have no doubt the essay sealed the deal.

Start ups pay very well if you have the stomach for risk.

And what do YOU do??