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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm with you.  I'm a fed lawyer.  very, very, very low morale where I work.  It's awful.  And it doesn't have to be.  I just wish we could work smarter and not harder like trying to squeeze every bit of blood and life juice and penny out of every lawyer here and offering OT every week and people doing unpaid allniters and weekends etc.[/quote]

My DH is in the exact same situation, especially due to budget squeezes, no bonuses and furloughs, although hours are still sane. Federal lawyers are very unhappy with the punishment they're getting from the budget battles. It also creates hostile dynamics in the workplace, especially as people leave and are not replaced. Everybody still left has to cover for the lost employees, although temp attorneys occasionally fill in during crunch times. My sympathies, for you and everybody else on this thread.[/quote]

Interesting, I thought maybe it was just my agency where people were behaving like rats in a cage.  We don't even have furloughs this year and still our workplace is completely toxic.  I actually used to enjoy my job and now the thought of having to take the metro down there and talk to my boss every day makes me want to start bawling.  Sometimes I do, right there on the metro.  My boss is well past retirement eligibility.  I can't understand why he doesn't pull the trigger and retire, given the toxic environment, but I think it's going to take a nuclear blast to dislodge him.  If I didn't have the health insurance for my family to worry about I'd get out.  There doesn't seem to be much mobility these days so finding a job with another agency isn't going to happen very quickly.
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