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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody cares one way or the other. Everyone is focused on the holidays. Hey the Feds will even get some extra vacay with backpay![/quote]

Want to give us your name and phone number so you can issue that HR policy guaranteeing back pay?  Because  many of the families I know who are Feds are really stressed because it's the holiday season with extra bills and they're facing the prospect of no paycheck for an undetermined amount of time.  No other civilized country runs their budgetary process with such uncertainty.[/quote]

Provide a link to the most recent time that backpay was not given.

Take it up with your representatives. Government shutdowns, especially this new model of a “partial” shutdown, [b]affects such a small group of people[/b] that there is not really any pressure on lawmakers to avoid it. Now stopping entitlement checks - THAT would get people’s attention. But they won’t do that, or touch the military, which is why most people don’t care.

I think a shutdown is absurd, especially over a border wall, but until it affects more people, they will keep pulling stunts like this.[/quote]

In any company (or country), 400,000 employees is not a small group of people.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676689450/heres-what-would-happen-if-the-government-shuts-down-this-week[/quote]

+1  400,000 is a huge number of people.  When they don't get their paycheck, it affects the economy.[/quote]

They’ll still get paid. They always do (says so in your own link.) And they’ll pay their expenses then. Calm down.[/quote]

Tell that to the single mother who is a GS-5 and needing to pay the bills, why don't you.  I dare you. Tell it to her face to calm down.  Who cares if she has to pay extra late fees she doesn't have the money for - certainly you don't.

Also how about those small business owners who lose days and even weeks of business when federal workers don't show up at the agency next door. They don't get back pay.

Get out of your bubble.[/quote]

And yet working for the government is sooooo competitive and desirable. Maybe these people should rethink their employer.[/quote]

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