Everyone is taking a pay cut. Why not the Feds??

[Anonymous]

the one percent raise for 2021 will go bye bye.

[Anonymous]

No, "everyone" isn't taking a paycut. Businesses based on in-person visits are hurting, businesses that aren't are fine or booming. Your headline may as well be "Why not software engineers?"

I'm a Fed and I'm working more than ever. My agency does COVID response work but even if we didn't, I'd be working full time from home. I've got the same grocery and childcare struggles as everyone else. Don't be petty.

[Anonymous]

It's probably cathartic for you to post things like this, but you're living in some kind of fantasy land, OP. Not everyone is taking a pay cut and the targeting of Federal workers to save fractions of pennies in the Federal budget is comical and makes me realize that people have no sense of what their tax dollars are actually being spent on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's probably cathartic for you to post things like this, but you're living in some kind of fantasy land, OP. Not everyone is taking a pay cut and the targeting of Federal workers to save fractions of pennies in the Federal budget is comical and makes me realize that people have no sense of what their tax dollars are actually being spent on.

To add, federal employees also pay taxes.

[Anonymous]

Cuz the Feds are printing all kinds of money lately.

[Anonymous]

Even if it wouldn’t save that much money, as a matter of principle it would be nice to see Feds share in the pain much of the rest of the country is experiencing. Being above the forces that affect everyone else in the country feeds into the notion that Feds are a protected class above all others.

[Anonymous]

Again, the question should be not 'why do the Feds have something I don't' but "why did I lose everything that the Feds still have?". Your employer sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even if it wouldn’t save that much money, as a matter of principle it would be nice to see Feds share in the pain much of the rest of the country is experiencing. Being above the forces that affect everyone else in the country feeds into the notion that Feds are a protected class above all others.

It would be nice if other people felt pain? Da fuq?

[Anonymous]

As was mentioned in another thread, the idea that most Feds take a huge pay cut to work for the government isn’t true, especially for attorneys. There is more truth to that for PhDs and certain researchers, although there are only so many private sector jobs in these fields, especially in DC.

[Anonymous]

I take the lower pay rate for what I do so that I keep getting paid in situations like now. Trade offs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if it wouldn’t save that much money, as a matter of principle it would be nice to see Feds share in the pain much of the rest of the country is experiencing. Being above the forces that affect everyone else in the country feeds into the notion that Feds are a protected class above all others.

It would be nice if other people felt pain? Da fuq?

Yes, is the concept of shared sacrifice that foreign to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned in another thread, the idea that most Feds take a huge pay cut to work for the government isn’t true, especially for attorneys. There is more truth to that for PhDs and certain researchers, although there are only so many private sector jobs in these fields, especially in DC.

It's true for me. I get recruiters contacting me all the time, but it just isn't worth giving up the security. Not everyone is a lawyer....get out of your bubble.

- Government Economist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if it wouldn’t save that much money, as a matter of principle it would be nice to see Feds share in the pain much of the rest of the country is experiencing. Being above the forces that affect everyone else in the country feeds into the notion that Feds are a protected class above all others.

It would be nice if other people felt pain? Da fuq?

Yes, is the concept of shared sacrifice that foreign to you?

But you want people to sacrifice for no benefit other than your own warm fuzzies? That's weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned in another thread, the idea that most Feds take a huge pay cut to work for the government isn’t true, especially for attorneys. There is more truth to that for PhDs and certain researchers, although there are only so many private sector jobs in these fields, especially in DC.

It's true for me. I get recruiters contacting me all the time, but it just isn't worth giving up the security. Not everyone is a lawyer....get out of your bubble.

- Government Economist

I specifically mentioned particularly for attorneys. That hardly means I am in a bubble who thinks everyone is an attorney.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned in another thread, the idea that most Feds take a huge pay cut to work for the government isn’t true, especially for attorneys. There is more truth to that for PhDs and certain researchers, although there are only so many private sector jobs in these fields, especially in DC.

It's true for me. I get recruiters contacting me all the time, but it just isn't worth giving up the security. Not everyone is a lawyer....get out of your bubble.

- Government Economist

I specifically mentioned particularly for attorneys. That hardly means I am in a bubble who thinks everyone is an attorney.

You brought a spoon to a knife fight, mate. I can read what you wrote.