National Day of Mourning will be Jan 9th

[Anonymous]

Sorry lie

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my god, do you people ever work?

When the government is off, federal contractors don't get paid. I have to use up my leave or take an unpaid day off whenever the government decides to give its worker random extra days off. There was just one on 12/24, too.

How often does a President pass?

Ford in 2006 and George HW Bush in 2018. So averaging once every 8-10 years. Inauguration is on MLK Day this year, so not an extra day. It evens out.

Surely, the average time between presidential deaths is the same as the average presidential tenure, so a number less than 8 years.

In recent history, Carter and George HW Bush both lived a really, really long time, which threw things off. Between Clinton (recently hospitalized for an infection and had quad bypass surgery) and Trump (McDonalds) and Biden (showing his age). I’d expect more than one death in the next 8 years.

But, Obama, Clinton, Trump, Reagan, and Bush 1 were all two term presidents since Carter (5 8 year terms if Trump is still with us in 2028) vs just Bush 2 and Biden who were not (so 2 4 year terms). So the average term length since 1980 is just under 7 years (my back of the napkin math says 6.86 years). So one every 8 years isn’t that far off.

With such a small data set, it just takes a couple people living into their 90s to throw the numbers off.

Actually every president from Gerald Ford on has (so far) lived beyond the age of 90 so it’s not just a couple of outliers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my god, do you people ever work?

When the government is off, federal contractors don't get paid. I have to use up my leave or take an unpaid day off whenever the government decides to give its worker random extra days off. There was just one on 12/24, too.

You make quite a bit more as a contractor than direct hire feds so you can pound sand.

Whatever, I’ve seen the GS scale and I know plenty of two fed families with vacation homes, no student loans, annual trips to exotic locations. You make bank and your benefits are great. I’m so tired of the woe is me BS we get from Feds here. You all make a good salary, great benefits, basically unlimited annual leave, tons of days off, they pay off your loans, and you can’t get fired. Not bad.

Clearly you don’t actually know Feds for real. Those of high up the GS scale do well, yes, but most of us could find jobs in the private sector making more. We know because we work in the same industry with those people. And our benefits are no better than those private sector white collar workers. And we don’t get unlimited annual leave at all. And our number of days off isn’t too different from the private sector. And most of us do not get loans paid off. The only thing you got right is the part about job security. Everything else is made up.

And I'll add that we don't get huge year end bonuses the way some of you do. Or any office perks. Those of us in supervisory positions end up spending our own money for special occasions, lunches, etc...otherwise things are potluck. I take my own coffee and water into the office.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh my god, do you people ever work?

When the government is off, federal contractors don't get paid. I have to use up my leave or take an unpaid day off whenever the government decides to give its worker random extra days off. There was just one on 12/24, too.

You make quite a bit more as a contractor than direct hire feds so you can pound sand.

Whatever, I’ve seen the GS scale and I know plenty of two fed families with vacation homes, no student loans, annual trips to exotic locations. You make bank and your benefits are great. I’m so tired of the woe is me BS we get from Feds here. You all make a good salary, great benefits, basically unlimited annual leave, tons of days off, they pay off your loans, and you can’t get fired. Not bad.

Clearly you don’t actually know Feds for real. Those of high up the GS scale do well, yes, but most of us could find jobs in the private sector making more. We know because we work in the same industry with those people. And our benefits are no better than those private sector white collar workers. And we don’t get unlimited annual leave at all. And our number of days off isn’t too different from the private sector. And most of us do not get loans paid off. The only thing you got right is the part about job security. Everything else is made up.

And I'll add that we don't get huge year end bonuses the way some of you do. Or any office perks. Those of us in supervisory positions end up spending our own money for special occasions, lunches, etc...otherwise things are potluck. I take my own coffee and water into the office.

Yeah it sounds like that PP thought government pensions are generous… when in reality you give up 4.4% of your salary every year for twenty five years in order to get… 25% of your salary for twenty five years more.

[Anonymous]

Feds just got an extra holiday from Biden (Xmas Eve) also.

Nothing will get done in January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feds just got an extra holiday from Biden (Xmas Eve) also.

Nothing will get done in January.

Umm- Christmas Eve is in December, not sure what that has to do with things getting done in January

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh my god, do you people ever work?

When the government is off, federal contractors don't get paid. I have to use up my leave or take an unpaid day off whenever the government decides to give its worker random extra days off. There was just one on 12/24, too.

You make quite a bit more as a contractor than direct hire feds so you can pound sand.

Whatever, I’ve seen the GS scale and I know plenty of two fed families with vacation homes, no student loans, annual trips to exotic locations. You make bank and your benefits are great. I’m so tired of the woe is me BS we get from Feds here. You all make a good salary, great benefits, basically unlimited annual leave, tons of days off, they pay off your loans, and you can’t get fired. Not bad.

Clearly you don’t actually know Feds for real. Those of high up the GS scale do well, yes, but most of us could find jobs in the private sector making more. We know because we work in the same industry with those people. And our benefits are no better than those private sector white collar workers. And we don’t get unlimited annual leave at all. And our number of days off isn’t too different from the private sector. And most of us do not get loans paid off. The only thing you got right is the part about job security. Everything else is made up.

And I'll add that we don't get huge year end bonuses the way some of you do. Or any office perks. Those of us in supervisory positions end up spending our own money for special occasions, lunches, etc...otherwise things are potluck. I take my own coffee and water into the office.

Yeah it sounds like that PP thought government pensions are generous… when in reality you give up 4.4% of your salary every year for twenty five years in order to get… 25% of your salary for twenty five years more.

To be fair that’s just those unlucky Feds that were hired in the last 11 years m. The majority of Feds are still only paying 0.8%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Feds just got an extra holiday from Biden (Xmas Eve) also.

Nothing will get done in January.

Umm- Christmas Eve is in December, not sure what that has to do with things getting done in January

Transition chaos

[Anonymous]

How about DC schools, off or no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh my god, do you people ever work?

When the government is off, federal contractors don't get paid. I have to use up my leave or take an unpaid day off whenever the government decides to give its worker random extra days off. There was just one on 12/24, too.

You make quite a bit more as a contractor than direct hire feds so you can pound sand.

Whatever, I’ve seen the GS scale and I know plenty of two fed families with vacation homes, no student loans, annual trips to exotic locations. You make bank and your benefits are great. I’m so tired of the woe is me BS we get from Feds here. You all make a good salary, great benefits, basically unlimited annual leave, tons of days off, they pay off your loans, and you can’t get fired. Not bad.

Clearly you don’t actually know Feds for real. Those of high up the GS scale do well, yes, but most of us could find jobs in the private sector making more. We know because we work in the same industry with those people. And our benefits are no better than those private sector white collar workers. And we don’t get unlimited annual leave at all. And our number of days off isn’t too different from the private sector. And most of us do not get loans paid off. The only thing you got right is the part about job security. Everything else is made up.

And I'll add that we don't get huge year end bonuses the way some of you do. Or any office perks. Those of us in supervisory positions end up spending our own money for special occasions, lunches, etc...otherwise things are potluck. I take my own coffee and water into the office.

Yeah it sounds like that PP thought government pensions are generous… when in reality you give up 4.4% of your salary every year for twenty five years in order to get… 25% of your salary for twenty five years more.

That's effectively 10% annualized return, for 20 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feds just got an extra holiday from Biden (Xmas Eve) also.

Nothing will get done in January.

I think prepping for the potential shutdown was much more disruptive than Christmas Eve off (which a lot of feds had planned to take anyway).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Feds just got an extra holiday from Biden (Xmas Eve) also.

Nothing will get done in January.

Umm- Christmas Eve is in December, not sure what that has to do with things getting done in January

Transition chaos

Next time they should start earlier instead of procrastingating. Poor planning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feds just got an extra holiday from Biden (Xmas Eve) also.

Nothing will get done in January.

Umm- Christmas Eve is in December, not sure what that has to do with things getting done in January

Transition chaos

Nobody who does real work has to worry about transition.

[Anonymous]

Jimmy Carter’s last and final great act was to give us flags at half staff on the day of the inauguration.

Thank you, Jimmy Carter!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feds just got an extra holiday from Biden (Xmas Eve) also.

Nothing will get done in January.

Umm- Christmas Eve is in December, not sure what that has to do with things getting done in January

Transition chaos

Nobody who does real work has to worry about transition.

I mean, my husband works in inspections for DoD (think making sure the materials used in planes, ships, submarines, etc are made properly) and it's been a mess. So.if you think making sure soldiers and sailors don't die from manufacturing defects isn't real work...