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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a fed and have been working the whole time -- thanks to my agency being funded.  During that time, I've had to take sick and annual leave, and am just as frazzled and busy as I always am.  I'm having little sympathy for my friends who are all caught up...and we do know now, that furloughed employees are going to get paid.  I understand feeling upset if you were fired and without work.  But seriously?  I don't think individuals should feel devalued compared to other working people.  I think as federal employees whose jobs (and how well or poorly they are done) have nothing to do with this "partial shutdown," yeah, you have a right to feel upset.  Just not in a tailspin at not being able to find work or being "unemployed." This is temporary, the jobs will still be there and they will get paid.  I agree this has had lots of other consequences and those people (contractors, business owners, etc) have a right to be depressed.  Totally beyond their control.

And I don't look at this on a scale of misery.  Gov't jobs come with a lot of sacrifices and perks.  That's life.  I don't think it's a good reminder of struggle.  That's an odd take on the situation, IMO.[/quote]

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