For Feds -- furlough update

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have it on very reliable info that EPA's cost saving steps early this FY have left it able to get by with no or barely any furloughs, but for political reasons it has been decreed that there WILL be furloughs --- 13 days planned now, subject to revision.

Despicable political posturing, using Federal employees who (unlike me) desperately depend on a full paycheck, as pawns.

I'm disgusted and embarrassed to have voted for Obama twice.

Shame on him & the administration, as clear as it is that he Republican charlatans in Congress are even worse.

Both sides suck. Hard.

This is getting even crazier now, furlough days not needed in some agencies but being decreed anyway to prove a point? I personally think its all threat and bark, not bite. If they don't need to take furlough in the end they won't. The threat gets enough across.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have it on very reliable info that EPA's cost saving steps early this FY have left it able to get by with no or barely any furloughs, but for political reasons it has been decreed that there WILL be furloughs --- 13 days planned now, subject to revision.

Despicable political posturing, using Federal employees who (unlike me) desperately depend on a full paycheck, as pawns.

I'm disgusted and embarrassed to have voted for Obama twice.

Shame on him & the administration, as clear as it is that he Republican charlatans in Congress are even worse.

Both sides suck. Hard.

I find it very difficult to believe that EPA would screw over its employees that way purely for politics.

[Anonymous]

Much of the country is in a Depression. What are you whining about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have it on very reliable info that EPA's cost saving steps early this FY have left it able to get by with no or barely any furloughs, but for political reasons it has been decreed that there WILL be furloughs --- 13 days planned now, subject to revision.

Despicable political posturing, using Federal employees who (unlike me) desperately depend on a full paycheck, as pawns.

I'm disgusted and embarrassed to have voted for Obama twice.

Shame on him & the administration, as clear as it is that he Republican charlatans in Congress are even worse.

Both sides suck. Hard.

I find it very difficult to believe that EPA would screw over its employees that way purely for politics.

Yeah, her post does not make sense, in light of the fact that coast guard and NIH are not taking any days. I would think the pressure would be placed heavier on those two agencies opposed to EPA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Much of the country is in a Depression. What are you whining about?

Go away troll. No one cares what obnoxious Fed-haters like you think.

[Anonymous]

I knew no one had been furloughed yet. From today's Wa Post

"This is the uncertain and uneven landscape of the furloughs that in less than three weeks will begin to affect more than half of the nation’s 2 million federal employees."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew no one had been furloughed yet. From today's Wa Post

"This is the uncertain and uneven landscape of the furloughs that in less than three weeks will begin to affect more than half of the nation’s 2 million federal employees."

How exactly does a statement that many Federal employees will begin furloughs in 3 weeks equate to your assertion that not a single Federal employee has been forced to take a furlough day thus far? I'm sorry, but do you really believe the Washington Post interviewed every component of every Federal agency before writing this story?

Are you accusing the PP who said she has already taken furlough days of lying?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Much of the country is in a Depression. What are you whining about?

really?? based on what economic data?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I knew no one had been furloughed yet. From today's Wa Post

"This is the uncertain and uneven landscape of the furloughs that in less than three weeks will begin to affect more than half of the nation’s 2 million federal employees."

How exactly does a statement that many Federal employees will begin furloughs in 3 weeks equate to your assertion that not a single Federal employee has been forced to take a furlough day thus far? I'm sorry, but do you really believe the Washington Post interviewed every component of every Federal agency before writing this story?

Are you accusing the PP who said she has already taken furlough days of lying?

Do you really, in your heart of hearts, think anyone has taken a furlough day? Do you think the Post wouldn't have fact checked and/or interviewed anyone to whom it has happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I knew no one had been furloughed yet. From today's Wa Post

"This is the uncertain and uneven landscape of the furloughs that in less than three weeks will begin to affect more than half of the nation’s 2 million federal employees."

How exactly does a statement that many Federal employees will begin furloughs in 3 weeks equate to your assertion that not a single Federal employee has been forced to take a furlough day thus far? I'm sorry, but do you really believe the Washington Post interviewed every component of every Federal agency before writing this story?

Are you accusing the PP who said she has already taken furlough days of lying?

Do you really, in your heart of hearts, think anyone has taken a furlough day? Do you think the Post wouldn't have fact checked and/or interviewed anyone to whom it has happened?

Do you really, in your heart of hearts, think that no one is going to take a furlough day no matter when it is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I knew no one had been furloughed yet. From today's Wa Post

"This is the uncertain and uneven landscape of the furloughs that in less than three weeks will begin to affect more than half of the nation’s 2 million federal employees."

How exactly does a statement that many Federal employees will begin furloughs in 3 weeks equate to your assertion that not a single Federal employee has been forced to take a furlough day thus far? I'm sorry, but do you really believe the Washington Post interviewed every component of every Federal agency before writing this story?

Are you accusing the PP who said she has already taken furlough days of lying?

Do you really, in your heart of hearts, think anyone has taken a furlough day? Do you think the Post wouldn't have fact checked and/or interviewed anyone to whom it has happened?

Yes, "in my heart of hearts" I do think some furlough days are already playing out. Why are you so convinced of the contrary?

And I feel quite confident in saying that WaPo does not have full knowledge of everything that happens to 2 million+ Federal employees in more than 1,000 distinct agencies/organizations across the US.

[Anonymous]

I will be taking my third furlough day on Monday and my office is 2/3 empty today because many of my colleagues chose today as a furlpough day (yes, we have been given flexibility). Today's paycheck reflected the furlough days I have already taken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will be taking my third furlough day on Monday and my office is 2/3 empty today because many of my colleagues chose today as a furlpough day (yes, we have been given flexibility). Today's paycheck reflected the furlough days I have already taken.

Thank you, PP. Although I'm not surprised, I'm very sorry to hear that. I know some of the smaller, more staff-intensive offices are being hit very hard.

Can we please set this ridiculous argument to rest now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will be taking my third furlough day on Monday and my office is 2/3 empty today because many of my colleagues chose today as a furlpough day (yes, we have been given flexibility). Today's paycheck reflected the furlough days I have already taken.

Thank you, PP. Although I'm not surprised, I'm very sorry to hear that. I know some of the smaller, more staff-intensive offices are being hit very hard.

Can we please set this ridiculous argument to rest now?

Yes hopefully you will be reimbursed in some way shape or form if/when it is determined the days were not necessary as they are doing in many oihter agencies. You shouldn't be penalized because you took yours early.

[Anonymous]

I didn't think reimbursement was part of the plan