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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, you say you're shocked at our views, but what are your views of the[b] IRS and the DMV?[/b] Or service employees?

You want to be respectful but the parts where service wasn't what you hoped for are the parts you tend to remember. It's kind of human nature.[/quote]

IRS and DMV employees are part of bureaucratic machinery that is debatably efficent. The correlary here is DCPS Central office employees (and federal agency employees).

i do agree that the unpaid summer person is not helping the cause. It's very annoying. When I was a teacher the vast majority of my colleagues took the summers off. Maybe they would do to a special training for a couple weeks. It's totally fine and it's fine to own up to that. [/quote]

I'm a fed who has posted earlier, and people dump all over feds on this site, too.  But I don't care because I like my job and what I do.

I do also agree the "summers off" vs. "summers unpaid" is really splitting hairs and just seems like gratuitous whining.  I can't think what a luxury it would be for me to have *a choice* about whether to work or not in the summer.  Maybe I would work most summers but take just one or two off during my kids' childhood so we could do extended travel.  But I don't have that option because by the time I use my annual leave for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring break (which teachers all get off), I only have at most another week or two by summer.

Btw, we also pay contributions for our pensions.[/quote]

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