Federal Employee Pay Freeze

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Please provide the post where a poster said he felt entitled to be shielded from the economy. I do believe the source is in your warped little head.
Stop projecting your feelings of insecurity on others. We aren't saying it. It is in your head.



OK, so what portion of your compensation do you feel should not be shielded from the effects of the economy? If not the COLA, then what? Should they forego step increases? Put a freeze on promotions or stop backfilling vacated positions? What portion of your job should be affected by the economy?

I am not insecure. I have said time and again that I am comfortable with my company making cuts in this environment. I think it is rational. What is insecure about that?

Umm, so your response to my request for evidence that federal employees have said they are entitled to be shielded is to . . . . ask me what portion of my income I think should be shielded??

Are you that thick, or do you just not get it?

NO ONE said feds should be shielded. NO ONE. No one, nowhere, at any time said that.

All anyone ever said was that news of the freeze sucks. Some have said it is also unfair because the upper class is unlikely to get tax increases, so they aren't being asked to do "their part" as we all are. But those sentiments don't equal a feeling of entitlement.

I'll say it. I think we are entitled to our COLA, and I'll not be an apologists for the bitter ones who took their chances in the private sector and bungled it. As far as I am concerned, Obama has proposed to take away my property without due proces of law. Perhaps the federal union should sue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Please provide the post where a poster said he felt entitled to be shielded from the economy. I do believe the source is in your warped little head.
Stop projecting your feelings of insecurity on others. We aren't saying it. It is in your head.



OK, so what portion of your compensation do you feel should not be shielded from the effects of the economy? If not the COLA, then what? Should they forego step increases? Put a freeze on promotions or stop backfilling vacated positions? What portion of your job should be affected by the economy?

I am not insecure. I have said time and again that I am comfortable with my company making cuts in this environment. I think it is rational. What is insecure about that?

Umm, so your response to my request for evidence that federal employees have said they are entitled to be shielded is to . . . . ask me what portion of my income I think should be shielded??

Are you that thick, or do you just not get it?

NO ONE said feds should be shielded. NO ONE. No one, nowhere, at any time said that.

All anyone ever said was that news of the freeze sucks. Some have said it is also unfair because the upper class is unlikely to get tax increases, so they aren't being asked to do "their part" as we all are. But those sentiments don't equal a feeling of entitlement.

I'll say it. I think we are entitled to our COLA, and I'll not be an apologists for the bitter ones who took their chances in the private sector and bungled it. As far as I am concerned, Obama has proposed to take away my property without due proces of law. Perhaps the federal union should sue.

Wow, salary now equals property. Could you try just a little harder to be the stereotype of the government worker?

[Anonymous]

As a matter of federal law, that happens to be true. A federal worker's salary is considered his property and, per the Constitution, it may not be taken away from us without due process of law.

Don't like it? Keep your corporate jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Please provide the post where a poster said he felt entitled to be shielded from the economy. I do believe the source is in your warped little head.
Stop projecting your feelings of insecurity on others. We aren't saying it. It is in your head.



OK, so what portion of your compensation do you feel should not be shielded from the effects of the economy? If not the COLA, then what? Should they forego step increases? Put a freeze on promotions or stop backfilling vacated positions? What portion of your job should be affected by the economy?

I am not insecure. I have said time and again that I am comfortable with my company making cuts in this environment. I think it is rational. What is insecure about that?

Umm, so your response to my request for evidence that federal employees have said they are entitled to be shielded is to . . . . ask me what portion of my income I think should be shielded??

Are you that thick, or do you just not get it?

NO ONE said feds should be shielded. NO ONE. No one, nowhere, at any time said that.

All anyone ever said was that news of the freeze sucks. Some have said it is also unfair because the upper class is unlikely to get tax increases, so they aren't being asked to do "their part" as we all are. But those sentiments don't equal a feeling of entitlement.

Well apparently some of your friends have jumped in to set the record straight. They call it a straight out entitlement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one guaranteed me pay raises for life. They did, however, guarantee me a modest COLA every year until I reached the highest step in my grade.

Those of you celebrating our misfortune are those that couldn't hack it in the private sector. They either cut your pay or cut you loose as soon as things went sour. And the federal government? Doesn't want you.

But you know what? We'll be fine. It will probably only end up being a one-year freeze, anyway.

You're right. You're much worse off. And, since you've shown yourself to be a shitty person, I think you deserve it much, much more than the thousands of Feds you do not know yet insist on stereotyping.

I misspoke. We're actually guaranteed COLAs for life. Not just until we reach the top step in our grade. For life. It's an entitlement. My salary is being reduced without due process of law. I think federal employees should sue. Or Congress should sack the idea.

Just don't start celebrating yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Please provide the post where a poster said he felt entitled to be shielded from the economy. I do believe the source is in your warped little head.
Stop projecting your feelings of insecurity on others. We aren't saying it. It is in your head.



OK, so what portion of your compensation do you feel should not be shielded from the effects of the economy? If not the COLA, then what? Should they forego step increases? Put a freeze on promotions or stop backfilling vacated positions? What portion of your job should be affected by the economy?

I am not insecure. I have said time and again that I am comfortable with my company making cuts in this environment. I think it is rational. What is insecure about that?

Umm, so your response to my request for evidence that federal employees have said they are entitled to be shielded is to . . . . ask me what portion of my income I think should be shielded??

Are you that thick, or do you just not get it?

NO ONE said feds should be shielded. NO ONE. No one, nowhere, at any time said that.

All anyone ever said was that news of the freeze sucks. Some have said it is also unfair because the upper class is unlikely to get tax increases, so they aren't being asked to do "their part" as we all are. But those sentiments don't equal a feeling of entitlement.

Well apparently some of your friends have jumped in to set the record straight. They call it a straight out entitlement.

Yes. I do. Eveeryone else may want to be an apologist to you corporate do-nothings that managed to screw up your lives with your Wall Street grteed, but I don't feel like it. Truth is, I'm not paid what I'm worth, and I am entitled to a COLA each and every damn year.

Y

[Anonymous]

And I'm not sorry about those typos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Please provide the post where a poster said he felt entitled to be shielded from the economy. I do believe the source is in your warped little head.
Stop projecting your feelings of insecurity on others. We aren't saying it. It is in your head.



OK, so what portion of your compensation do you feel should not be shielded from the effects of the economy? If not the COLA, then what? Should they forego step increases? Put a freeze on promotions or stop backfilling vacated positions? What portion of your job should be affected by the economy?

I am not insecure. I have said time and again that I am comfortable with my company making cuts in this environment. I think it is rational. What is insecure about that?

Umm, so your response to my request for evidence that federal employees have said they are entitled to be shielded is to . . . . ask me what portion of my income I think should be shielded??

Are you that thick, or do you just not get it?

NO ONE said feds should be shielded. NO ONE. No one, nowhere, at any time said that.

All anyone ever said was that news of the freeze sucks. Some have said it is also unfair because the upper class is unlikely to get tax increases, so they aren't being asked to do "their part" as we all are. But those sentiments don't equal a feeling of entitlement.

Well apparently some of your friends have jumped in to set the record straight. They call it a straight out entitlement.

Yes. I do. Eveeryone else may want to be an apologist to you corporate do-nothings that managed to screw up your lives with your Wall Street grteed, but I don't feel like it. Truth is, I'm not paid what I'm worth, and I am entitled to a COLA each and every damn year.

Y

I am not a corporate person or a do-nothing. I have never worked in the financial services industry. Thanks for the rant, though.

But truth is, if you are fighting for a 1% COLA, you are getting exactly what you deserve. Most people who are underpaid would find a way to get promoted or interview for a bigger job rather than fight for a COLA. That's what you do when you join the AARP, not when you are thirty or forty with decades of potential ahead of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a matter of federal law, that happens to be true. A federal worker's salary is considered his property and, per the Constitution, it may not be taken away from us without due process of law.

Don't like it? Keep your corporate jobs.

I don't work for a corporation. But I'll bite. Where in federal law that salary is "property"?

[Anonymous]

If Social Security had no COLA, why would Federal employees get a COLA?

Lots of corporate types you denigrate have had practically zero salary growth in 3 years - pardon us if we don't pull out the violin and play a sad song.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Please provide the post where a poster said he felt entitled to be shielded from the economy. I do believe the source is in your warped little head.
Stop projecting your feelings of insecurity on others. We aren't saying it. It is in your head.



OK, so what portion of your compensation do you feel should not be shielded from the effects of the economy? If not the COLA, then what? Should they forego step increases? Put a freeze on promotions or stop backfilling vacated positions? What portion of your job should be affected by the economy?

I am not insecure. I have said time and again that I am comfortable with my company making cuts in this environment. I think it is rational. What is insecure about that?

Umm, so your response to my request for evidence that federal employees have said they are entitled to be shielded is to . . . . ask me what portion of my income I think should be shielded??

Are you that thick, or do you just not get it?

NO ONE said feds should be shielded. NO ONE. No one, nowhere, at any time said that.

All anyone ever said was that news of the freeze sucks. Some have said it is also unfair because the upper class is unlikely to get tax increases, so they aren't being asked to do "their part" as we all are. But those sentiments don't equal a feeling of entitlement.

I'll say it. I think we are entitled to our COLA, and I'll not be an apologists for the bitter ones who took their chances in the private sector and bungled it. As far as I am concerned, Obama has proposed to take away my property without due proces of law. Perhaps the federal union should sue.

Entitled?! At last a Fed. employee tells the truth. You are entitled to a COLA when SS recipients who live on fixed incomes don't get a COLA, rivate companies are not giving raises or COLAs but you are ENTITLED. Ha! You aren't entitled to a bloody thing.

[Anonymous]

This is what happens when you cross a tea partier with a federal employee. Not only are they entitled, but they start waving the fifth amendment around.

[Anonymous]

Well apparently some of your friends have jumped in to set the record straight. They call it a straight out entitlement.

Ok. I'm not entirely convinced that poster is a fed. I think it is more likely a troll trying to portray the unflattering caricature of a greedy Fed.

Or, just a really psycho fed. Hey, they are out there. I can't make excuses for him/her. There is a reason behind the phrase "going postal."

[Anonymous]

But it looks like three or four of them.

[Anonymous]

No way. All the crazy posts after 17:28 are the same poster. Jeff could verify I bet.