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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guarantee that all of the people chiming in to say they would be fine going months /years without pay are non essential/excepted employees, many of whom will come out ahead.

There’s no way that those who are required to actually report for duty each day during the shutdown and incur commuting/childcare costs while draining their savings and forgoing investment dividends will tolerate it for months on end (especially now knowing that the non-working Feds will ultimately get the same back pay when the shutdown concludes)[/quote]

I'm fine for a year or two, and I honestly don't know if I'm essential/excepted or not - I'll find out this week.  But I'm a fairly new GS-14 who started after over 20 years in the private sector, so I'm in a completely different place from most.

I am really hoping for no shutdown, both for non-selfish reasons (I don't want others to be screwed and I don't want important but non-essential work to be screwed) and selfish (I have some vacation days scheduled starting the end of next week for something that can't be rescheduled).[/quote]

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