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So who is forcing you to stay?[/quote]

I think you're missing the point. If I leave, the feds will still have the same problem.  My agency already has a hard time getting people through the door because, we're competing against STEM related companies paying much higher (look at GS-5/GS-7 pay for new graduates).  We used to offer 4 year contractual 10k bonuses to entry level employees to make our pay more competitive.  We're not really getting the best and brightest. We're getting those who can wait 6 months from a job application to when they're allowed to set foot on campus.

That means that the public is not served as well.  You get public servants who are not the most motivated, not the brightest, and are more corruptible.  That means you get decisions that can hurt people in real ways. Work is slower. Institutional knowledge is lost. This means that when citizens interact with the government for services, it costs them more and they may get less desirable results.
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Take it up with Congress -- the current one is not going to give two shits about federal employee pay and may be actively trying to get feds to leave and not be able to be replaced.  They don't want the best and brightest, they want a bunch of lazy, bottom-of-the-barrels so that they can point out yet again how "lazy" federal workers are.  You're a political hot potato, and the government does not pay to market scale.  Instead, it provides better quality of life, more flexibility, cheaper benefits (holy shit, I have a good employer that provides good, subsidized healthcare, and a comparable plan through the fed is less than half the cost; dental and vision is more, but the health insurance is almost the entire reason one of us stays fed), and a damn good retirement plan.[/quote]

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