I can't say this to anyone in real life but ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not from this area, and don't deal at all with Feds. I don't know a single Fed. All I know about Feds is from this board. And you come off as whiny assholes. If anyone is bashing you, it's probably your own fault. Every time there's a cloud in the sky there's a Fed on here wishing and hoping for a snow day. A former President was sick last week and a Fed was hopeful he'd die so he wouldn't have to take a "use it or lose it" vacation day. Your salaries aren't awesome, I guess, but you could basically come to work drunk and naked every day for a year before they could even come close to firing you, so you have the security that not many private sector jobs don't. And FWIW, my private-sector DH is often out of town for weeks at a time working on long-term projects, and putting in 85 hour work weeks not only with no overtime, but with pushback *from his bosses* for accurately reporting his time and thus driving up their costs for the project. So I'm really not sorry if you have to bring home your laptop at 6 pm to do a little extra work!

So you judge how many workers for the opinions posted on an anonymous website? Whoever said that was probably a troll trying to piss people off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a 401k and a smaller pension than the old system.

We also can't access the pension until we're in our 60s generally, and pay penalties if we take it early.

+100

I was born in 1970 and have to wait until I turn 67 to get 401k and miniscule pension.
I will be 30 years in at 55- but have to but in 42 years. That doesn't sound so glamorous now, does it?

I would love to work for the Feds some posters have created in their imaginations.

[Anonymous]

Get used to it. The DC metro area is the land of welfare queens, aka anyone that works for the government. I've never met any government worker that deserves what they're paid. Uncreative and incompetent. The reason NoVA housing is so expensive is because they could never get paid this well anywhere else in the USA - they have no real skills.

[Anonymous]

My mother-in-law worked as a prison nurse for 20 years (a tough job that gave her a little extra pay as a single widowed mom) for the county and is now "double dipping" in private practice. Is that acceptable?

[Anonymous]

100% Fed pension is BS. The max is 80% plus any accumulated sick leave under CSRS. You would have to have 10 years of accumulated sick leave based on those numbers putting the person at about 150 years old....

[Anonymous]

P.S. The best jobs in the civilian federal government are law enforcement and firefighters. Assuming you start straight out of college at age 21, you can retire at 46 under FERS (age 50 under CSRS).....