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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gotta keep working up the hatred of the Federal workforce. [/quote]

The workers themselves make it easy. Read some DCUM boards about federal government RTO, salaries, pensions, vacation time, job security, actual working hours, etc.

Of course, there are some federal workers that work hard and make the system work. But, there are a lot of coasters in the system and a lot more than in private industry. [/quote]

Give me a break. They’re not coasting, they’re drowning.  Morale is incredibly low, employees don’t have the support or tools they need to be “successful” nor is that “success” even clearly defined by management at most agencies and certainly not at the very top.  Think about what it’s like working at the lower levels of the biggest corporation you know, then multiply that feeling by a million and cut the budget in half. Most private sector employees wouldn’t be able to stand it.  They’d faint at the suggestion that they need to buy their own coffee, ffs.

This whole song and dance is very tiresome.[/quote]

I know-- I was thinking of the poster who complained that his company wouldn't pay for a goodbye party for someone.  Meanwhile my agency refused to pay for paper I use to WFH.[/quote]

We pay for our own drinking water.[/quote]

I remember the absolute shock when I came from the private sector to working as a Fed. We had to oh for our own water too, AND our offices were rodent infested. There’s not even coffee provided by the office. Even the annual party has to be paid for by the employees. It was like $32 for a paper plate with food from Boston Market.[/quote]

Do we work at the same place? [/quote]

That makes three of us…

It was never Boston Market though. More like sketchy Chinese food from around the corner.  I actually don’t think government should pay for those kinds of things, but I do think employees and managers deserve flexibility, empathy, and respect.  For goodness sake, just look at what things are like when the government shuts down and then get back to me about how federal employees don’t do anything.

Managers tolerate a certain level of “waste” in any large organization because we realize things need to be stable.  I’m so tired of people trying to fix government by starving it.  Just give people something good to do, the money to do it, and they’ll do it.  You’d be surprised at how effective federal employees are when they have real leadership.  This insistence on micromanagement is driving good leaders away.[/quote]

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