Official Government Shutdown 2023 Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am hoping for a three weeks government shutdown so that my wife and I can travel to Miami and enjoy ourselves. I work remotely but my wife has to be in the office three times a week so we can't travel.

This seems legit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am hoping for a three weeks government shutdown so that my wife and I can travel to Miami and enjoy ourselves. I work remotely but my wife has to be in the office three times a week so we can't travel.

there's no way to know how long the shutdown would last - so your wife would need to be able to get back quickly if they passed something (assuming you are not just a troll trying to stir the pot).

Yes Miami is lovely this time of year, hurricane season, teapot temp jellyfish filled ocean water, oppressive humidity and lingering summer heat.

#notatrolliswear

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am hoping for a three weeks government shutdown so that my wife and I can travel to Miami and enjoy ourselves. I work remotely but my wife has to be in the office three times a week so we can't travel.

there's no way to know how long the shutdown would last - so your wife would need to be able to get back quickly if they passed something (assuming you are not just a troll trying to stir the pot).

In 1995, Clinton and Gingrich shutdown the government for three weeks so I took off to Tampa Florida and enjoyed during that time, at the expense of the government.

[Anonymous]

Congress should suspend their own paychecks when they shut down the govt, but they won't.

[Anonymous]

I’m really struggling with the anticipation this time. I’ve been a fed more than 10 years so this isn’t my first shutdown, and financially we’re probably in a better position this time around. But the uncertainty, and the fact that this BS is happening again, is really getting to me. Anyone else feeling this way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m really struggling with the anticipation this time. I’ve been a fed more than 10 years so this isn’t my first shutdown, and financially we’re probably in a better position this time around. But the uncertainty, and the fact that this BS is happening again, is really getting to me. Anyone else feeling this way?

Right there with you. Enough, already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m really struggling with the anticipation this time. I’ve been a fed more than 10 years so this isn’t my first shutdown, and financially we’re probably in a better position this time around. But the uncertainty, and the fact that this BS is happening again, is really getting to me. Anyone else feeling this way?

I feel like this every time we face yet another one of these. I’ve been a fed for 17 years, so plenty of actual ones and barely averted ones. I’m in a new job since the last one too and management here has not identified excepted employees yet, so that’s an added factor. It also seems unclear if excepted if you have to report daily in person, that would really mess with my family’s carefully orchestrated school drop off and pick up schedule. Plus, I have leave approved for mid October with non refundable travel, so if I’m excepted that would kind of be a downer. I also hate having my job be diluted to being a political pawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m really struggling with the anticipation this time. I’ve been a fed more than 10 years so this isn’t my first shutdown, and financially we’re probably in a better position this time around. But the uncertainty, and the fact that this BS is happening again, is really getting to me. Anyone else feeling this way?

Right there with you. Enough, already.

Yes, same. Fed for 16 years and this will be my third shutdown and so many close calls in between. This time around, a long shut down would put us in a bind. We have so many expenses right now with kid sports and other activities that missing my paycheck for 2+weeks would be financially draining and the uncertainty of this is just a distraction from our jobs and feels demoralizing, especially come out of the pandemic where we never stopped working, even with kids home and other worries--we kept going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m really struggling with the anticipation this time. I’ve been a fed more than 10 years so this isn’t my first shutdown, and financially we’re probably in a better position this time around. But the uncertainty, and the fact that this BS is happening again, is really getting to me. Anyone else feeling this way?

I am too.

[Anonymous]

Even if they don't shutdown this whole week has been wasted as everyone tries to plan for the shutdown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m really struggling with the anticipation this time. I’ve been a fed more than 10 years so this isn’t my first shutdown, and financially we’re probably in a better position this time around. But the uncertainty, and the fact that this BS is happening again, is really getting to me. Anyone else feeling this way?

it's a mixed bag. i'm trying to free up some cash (how much? who knows!) and many friends and fam will be hurt by any pay delays. otoh, i've got a bunch of stuff to deal with for my mom after my dad died earlier this year. don't know if i'll have access to childcare or not, but i'll still have to pay for it, so thats fun.

so basically looking forward to an uplifting couple weeks of paperwork and existential dread. and if they manage to pull off a CR it won't cover more than a few weeks to months and we'll just go through this all over again, but for the holidays. lovely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m really struggling with the anticipation this time. I’ve been a fed more than 10 years so this isn’t my first shutdown, and financially we’re probably in a better position this time around. But the uncertainty, and the fact that this BS is happening again, is really getting to me. Anyone else feeling this way?

I hear you. It just causes unnecessary stress....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m really struggling with the anticipation this time. I’ve been a fed more than 10 years so this isn’t my first shutdown, and financially we’re probably in a better position this time around. But the uncertainty, and the fact that this BS is happening again, is really getting to me. Anyone else feeling this way?

I hear you. It just causes unnecessary stress....

Fellow Feds you need some perspective.

I’ve had tons for family and friends who were laid off recently, some still looking for work months later.

We will be paid. It’s law, even for non exempt. Some bills will be delayed; if things go off the rail, you get hardship withdrawal from TSP, but in general we have good job security and never have to go through the layoff grinder (which is awful for those let go and those remaining).

Now if they start pushing out RIFs, feel free to panic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m really struggling with the anticipation this time. I’ve been a fed more than 10 years so this isn’t my first shutdown, and financially we’re probably in a better position this time around. But the uncertainty, and the fact that this BS is happening again, is really getting to me. Anyone else feeling this way?

Not me, I'm probably just going to keep working so I don't get behind. I am a lawyer and my job involves reading publicly available case files so if we shut down I will just be doing my pleasure reading which just so happens to be what I do during my day job.

[Anonymous]

I know these things tend to work themselves out in the final days/hours. But this time a shutdown seems inevitable. It doesn't seem like the far right has anything in particular they want (other than an unachievable wholesale stripping of the federal bureaucracy). I just don't know how you persuade them to come on board. And Trump is shouting DEFUND THE PROSECUTORS left and right seems to just make this thing worse. And McCarthy isn't going to sacrifice his speakership over this.

Anyways, I think there's an 80% chance we get a sustained shutdown like 2019, where it goes on for weeks until something truly breaks.