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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again:  it’s not the responsibility of federal workers to support downtown “restaurants.”[/quote]

Maybe not, but it is the responsibility of the federal government to care about the variability of restaurants in our economy.

You’re a civil servant….so that means you.[/quote]
Unless you’re paying for my lunch you have no business telling me how to spend my money. Why don’t you go into DC every day to buy your meals, if you’re that concerned? [/quote]

I’m not telling you how to spend your money. I’m telling you why the government cares. You work for the Government so you’re one of the affected employees. The argument that it is not the responsibility of federal employees to support downtown is moot because you work for the entity designed to care. If you don’t, that’s fine, but it’s not an invalid reason for the employer even if the employee doesn’t like it.

Your reaction is disproportionate.[/quote]

You sound like the idiot business owner who goes around lecturing people about their supposed obligation to others when it serves you, even though you would not feel the slightest obligation to your own employees the next time you lay them all off because you'd rather keep making your boat payments.[/quote]

I’m a career Federal staff level employee who has not worked for a private company since I was a temp in 2001 looking for a job. But you’re obviously really good at this game so keep playing it. Now tell me how I’m a loser because I’m not a manager. The most ridiculous part of this post is that I would never buy a boat. [/quote]

np - your initial post about it's feds job to support dc restaurants was dumb though. what does "government cares" really mean anyway? [/quote]

It's also ridiculous because can you imagine if we said it's the government's job to pay enough to their employees to live in DC instead of commuting from the exurbs* because the executive branch *actually says* climate change is a priority far more directly than DC restaurants? There would be HOWLS about waste of taxpayer money to support a cushy lifestyle for lazy feds. And yet you feel entitled to our salaries being spent on unnecessary food in DC?

*No, I and most others don't fit the DCUM ideal of two GS-15 feds in a giant new house. Many of us literally can't afford more than a crappy apartment in/near DC, which I think is fine for new grads, but not for mid-career folks. Most younger people in my agency who have kids either move to suburbs/exurbs for affordability, or look for jobs outside DC entirely. [/quote]

2 15s don’t pay for a big house inside the beltway these days anyway.  Most families like that with more than one kid live further out. [/quote]

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