likelihood of a government shut down?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

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Anonymous wrote:They're doing everything they can to shut it down. We can only hope.

The longer it stays shit down, the worse trump looks, so let's hope they can keep it closed for six months

Thanks but some of us would like to work and get paid.

You'll get paid when it's over. So relax, enjoy the time off, and take one for the team in the meantime.

There's bigger fish to fry right now -like the huge fat one in the Whitehouse.

Go take a vacation. Go somewhere fun with your family. Enjoy it. This is bigger than you.

Yep. I'm the PP you're responding to and while I'd rather work and be guaranteed a salary (which we aren't right now), whatever -- I am out of here if we shut down. Was already looking at flights to Miami and the Caribbean. Only been with the gov't for 1.5 yrs so I honestly don't get why people don't plan for these shut downs periodically (FYI -- I mean my attorney peers; I have all the sympathy of GS 7s who are paycheck to paycheck bc their pay is so low that it's hard to save.)

Maybe your office is different, but at my office (also all attorneys -- mostly GS 15s), I would NOT be volunteering that if there's a shutdown, you're jumping on a flight to the Caribbean on Saturday. I mean great for you -- I'm jealous -- but in my office with the last shutdown, by the end there were GS 15s crying about putting food on the table and how they were only shopping at stores that were doubling coupons. And most are dual income (not necessary dual fed). I don't understand either extreme -- going on vacation OR worrying about groceries. If you announced your vacation in my office, people would be VERY interested (i.e. nosy) about your financial planning. There's only one person in my office who does such things but totally different circumstance than others -- mid 30s single and joined at the hip to her very wealthy parents who have bought her her condo in cash etc., so her gov't salary is her "fun" money.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

You don't have 1-2 days of vacation time? You'd get your entire vacation w/o using annual leave and then when the re opening was announced, if you couldn't make it back the next day -- take 1 or 2 days off?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Because human nature is to worry about yourself? So I don't particularly care if we have a budget or a CR or if we are in a deficit or not, so long as I'm getting paid.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's not guaranteed but they always have. This president would be the president to deny it, though. We have enough stashed away that we could handle a shut down of couple of months, plus I'm private sector so I'd still be getting paid. But dual-income feds with an area-typical mortgage and not enough padding could really start hurting quickly.

Then maybe they shouldn't live pay check to pay check.
Signed,
One-half of a dual-income fed

Your privilege is showing, nitwit.

Not everyone is a GS-15. Hard to live on a GS-7 pay, much less have a lot in savings.

Sorry you aren't more successful. Should have studied a STEM field rather than sociology

How's that minimum wage job of yours going?

I’m not a GS-7, but my office would be lost without our admin staff. You sound like an ass everyone would be better off without.

Wow, your admins actually do something? Our's will practically rip your arm off if you try to interrupt their personal calls or internet browsing.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

You don't have 1-2 days of vacation time? You'd get your entire vacation w/o using annual leave and then when the re opening was announced, if you couldn't make it back the next day -- take 1 or 2 days off?

I don’t know where you work but that was a terrible faux pas last time in terms of optics. You look like a giant douche and people definitely notice

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

You don't have 1-2 days of vacation time? You'd get your entire vacation w/o using annual leave and then when the re opening was announced, if you couldn't make it back the next day -- take 1 or 2 days off?

I don’t know where you work but that was a terrible faux pas last time in terms of optics. You look like a giant douche and people definitely notice

I wasn't around the last shutdown, but I would be shocked if my boss cared if people took a couple of extra days to get back.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

You don't have 1-2 days of vacation time? You'd get your entire vacation w/o using annual leave and then when the re opening was announced, if you couldn't make it back the next day -- take 1 or 2 days off?

I don’t know where you work but that was a terrible faux pas last time in terms of optics. You look like a giant douche and people definitely notice

I wasn't around the last shutdown, but I would be shocked if my boss cared if people took a couple of extra days to get back.

It’s not just your boss.

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Anonymous wrote:What should they get paid for not working ?

They need to live the same lives as the majority of the public who they work for .

It's not our fault people have voted in buffoons who don't how to work together. Why should our pay be docked??? We have bills and families just like everyone else. If your employer decided to stop paying you on a whim, you'd throw a darn fit, yet you expect others to just suck it up.

Because thats part of the risk of your job. My husband's job just moved to Plano. He either moves or loses it and doesn't get paid. It's the risk of the job. Welcome to the real world.

Perhaps if y'all don't get paid, you'll think about your vote.

Ugh I’m glad you’re husband has a job because you can’t even come up with an analogy that makes sense. M

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Because human nature is to worry about yourself? So I don't particularly care if we have a budget or a CR or if we are in a deficit or not, so long as I'm getting paid.

People who are not Feds are excited for "lazy Feds" to not get paid. That's what I'm talking about. They should be more concerned about congress failing to do their jobs and they're still getting paid.

I am worried about our dual income fed salaries, but we're GS12s so we have savings. I was only a 7 during the last shutdown and was single.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

You don't have 1-2 days of vacation time? You'd get your entire vacation w/o using annual leave and then when the re opening was announced, if you couldn't make it back the next day -- take 1 or 2 days off?

I don’t know where you work but that was a terrible faux pas last time in terms of optics. You look like a giant douche and people definitely notice

Nope. At my agency you look baller to be able to pay your mortgage and take a last minute vacation with last minute airfare and people wonder how much you stashed away in private practice.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

You don't have 1-2 days of vacation time? You'd get your entire vacation w/o using annual leave and then when the re opening was announced, if you couldn't make it back the next day -- take 1 or 2 days off?

I don’t know where you work but that was a terrible faux pas last time in terms of optics. You look like a giant douche and people definitely notice

I wasn't around the last shutdown, but I would be shocked if my boss cared if people took a couple of extra days to get back.

It’s not just your boss.

What does that mean? Who else would have to approve my leave? If I wanted to take the next two days off, no one other than my boss would need to approve. And, to the extent it would matter, I doubt my boss's boss would care either.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

You don't have 1-2 days of vacation time? You'd get your entire vacation w/o using annual leave and then when the re opening was announced, if you couldn't make it back the next day -- take 1 or 2 days off?

I don’t know where you work but that was a terrible faux pas last time in terms of optics. You look like a giant douche and people definitely notice

I wasn't around the last shutdown, but I would be shocked if my boss cared if people took a couple of extra days to get back.

It’s not just your boss.

What does that mean? Who else would have to approve my leave? If I wanted to take the next two days off, no one other than my boss would need to approve. And, to the extent it would matter, I doubt my boss's boss would care either.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

You don't have 1-2 days of vacation time? You'd get your entire vacation w/o using annual leave and then when the re opening was announced, if you couldn't make it back the next day -- take 1 or 2 days off?

I don’t know where you work but that was a terrible faux pas last time in terms of optics. You look like a giant douche and people definitely notice

I wasn't around the last shutdown, but I would be shocked if my boss cared if people took a couple of extra days to get back.

It’s not just your boss.

What does that mean? Who else would have to approve my leave? If I wanted to take the next two days off, no one other than my boss would need to approve. And, to the extent it would matter, I doubt my boss's boss would care either.

It means that reputation in an office isn’t just generated by your supervisor. I would think that’s obvious. Team cameraderie, people who might be your boss when your boss quits etc. Your bosses boss who helps make leadership hiring decisions moving forward, all of that. Optics aren’t always just about who does your ppa but hey the fact that that didn’t occur to you says it all.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people more upset about how fed employees might or might not get backpay than how Congress's has not passed a budget? This is what's wrong with out country. No one holds congress accountable.

Exactly!

Also, to the PP whio said Feds should go on vacation, that isn’t an option since you have to come back with less than a day’s notice.

You don't have 1-2 days of vacation time? You'd get your entire vacation w/o using annual leave and then when the re opening was announced, if you couldn't make it back the next day -- take 1 or 2 days off?

I don’t know where you work but that was a terrible faux pas last time in terms of optics. You look like a giant douche and people definitely notice

Nope. At my agency you look baller to be able to pay your mortgage and take a last minute vacation with last minute airfare and people wonder how much you stashed away in private practice.

Yeah I don’t believe you are actually a fed