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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I see the feds have rushed in to defend themselves - all the best performers I'm sure. I ask you though, if you're doing such a great job it must really piss you off seeing all those co-workers coasting along right? I was a DOD contractor for 5 years in the DC area and it was egregious how little some people did. They also didn't have to answer to anyone and had so many early releases/"trainings" etc they barely even had to show up. [/quote]

Are you telling me you don't know anyone in the private sector who get paid for doing nothing lol? [/quote]

This would be exceptionally rare and unusual in the private sector.[/quote]

This is laughable. Have you ever worked in a law firm? I am a fed and I spent 10+ years in the private sector. Incompetence is plenty everywhere. I’ve seen (and still see from across the table) attorneys who bill hundreds of hours for complete shit work. People get paid for doing nothing all the time and people get paid for doing a lot of crappy work all the time.[/quote]

+1. I spent 10 years in the private sector in giant corporations that are every bit as bureaucratic as the government. They also have people who barely work and skate by. There was one woman who spent 1 hour a week updating a spreadsheet and just hung out the rest of the week. But her spreadsheet was the only record of an entire P&L for the company and was so illegible only she could decipher it, so her job was secure. [/quote]

I've worked both in private and Fed jobs. There are slackers everywhere. But Fed certainly enables it much more easily than in the private sector, where layoffs are frequent and culls of low performers happens all the time. People wanted Fed jobs because of the security and promise of a pension. The Feds I worked with all openly admitted it. They willingly accepted lower salaries (historically) in exchange for security and no fears of being pushed out at 55.

The Fed efficiency isn't great either. I've seen many paper pushing jobs, even at the G13 levels. Big corp isn't immune to this either but these roles are ruthlessly scrutinized when there's a tightening of belts. I've lived through mass layoffs and it was brutal. Very few Feds have that experience. [/quote]

I agree with everything you have said. However, we in the private sector are the lucky ones not them. We earn significantly more. We have better career progression. And we have less ethical BS to worry about. Honestly, their low salaries and pensions just aren't good enough in my opinion to forgo a more lucrative career in the private sector.

I do worry about the direction of this country. As the public sector shrinks, so will benefits and working conditions in the private sector.

And how many Americans work for the FED? 2 millions. I have no idea.  There are just enough for them for some us to have this attitude that these hours somehow won the jackpot at our expense.[/quote]

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