How's your school reacting to Shutdown?

[Anonymous]

Let's see when day 10 rolls around....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back pay and no upcoming payday is different. Bills are current and late-payments will be in effect. So this hooray about back pay is hog-wash. Back pay means you have to catch-up and that's more harder than you think.

Trust me, I know it's hard, I'm doing that dance right now. But it's still getting paid to do nothing in the end. Even if you didn't ask for it. Everyone loses, but you can also lose and get free money through no fault of your own. The whole thing is awful for so many reasons.

It is not "free money," we have jobs that we are contracted to do and because of a congressional impasse we are precluded from doing our jobs, if there is no back pay this is a pay cut, on top of three years of pay cuts through the freezing of federal pay. I work more hours than I am paid for all the time because I am a salaried employee. In every previous shut down, federal workers have been paid in the end and rightly so in my opinion. We will need to do the work that has not been done when we return to the job, many working uncompensated overtime to get this done. Many, more than 1 million, government workers are working for pay with no knowledge of when they will actually be paid. There is tremendous uncertainty and stress for many, contractors that have been furloughed or may be furloughed if this is not resolved soon, businesses that depend on federal workers as their customers and the tourist industry which is loving out during one of it peak months due to closed federal facilities and parks. No one takes a federal job hoping for a furlough so they can get free vacation. This has not happened in almost 18 years. People take federal jobs for a variety of reasons, part of what goes into the equation is job security which is reflected in a lower rate of pay for highly skilled employees. If that goes away, the government will lose its most skilled workers with other options and be left with those that do not have other options.

Also, this is not actually signed into law yet.

[Anonymous]

if you're a federal worker working over-time and not being compensated with pay, credit hours and/or comp-time then your management needs to raked across the coals for violating the issue. As for losing skilled workers, it is not going to happen because we don't recruit skill workers. You can't lose, what you never had.

Stress now, is no more than it was then in 95 and 96.