Another sterling idea from the peanut gallery, let's reduce people's spending power more and further hurt economy. Brilliant!

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Anonymous wrote:Even if it wouldn’t save that much money, as a matter of principle it would be nice to see Feds share in the pain much of the rest of the country is experiencing. Being above the forces that affect everyone else in the country feeds into the notion that Feds are a protected class above all others.

It would be nice if other people felt pain? Da fuq?

Yes, is the concept of shared sacrifice that foreign to you?

You are one miserable person, OP. You’re the type who wants everyone as low as you. The type who climbs on top of the person coming to save you when you are e drowning. Someone who wants to hurt others just to see their own pain reflected back. People like you destroy my faith in humanity. Yuck, OP, yuck.

- not a fed

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Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned in another thread, the idea that most Feds take a huge pay cut to work for the government isn’t true, especially for attorneys. There is more truth to that for PhDs and certain researchers, although there are only so many private sector jobs in these fields, especially in DC.

Yes, I remember you. You really think most federal attorneys couldn’t get a job in a mid-size law firm and make more money? Maybe not big law money but certainly more.

Could most move to a job where they consistently got paid significantly more? No.

And at smaller firms there would be tremendous pressure to bring in clients and worries about collecting, among many other issues Feds don’t have to deal with that make their jobs far more pleasant.

I started at a big firm and moved to government for the reduced stress and hours. It was a 40% paycut at the time, and even as a 15 I'll never make as much as I did when I left. Yes, of course if I went back the expectations and pressures would be different ... that's why I don't go back. (I get calls pretty regularly and I'm not in litigation.) Not sure what point you are making.

I'd be okay with it if I could work 10% less hours. I've wanted to work 35 hours a week for years and it isn't allowed.

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Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned in another thread, the idea that most Feds take a huge pay cut to work for the government isn’t true, especially for attorneys. There is more truth to that for PhDs and certain researchers, although there are only so many private sector jobs in these fields, especially in DC.

Yes, I remember you. You really think most federal attorneys couldn’t get a job in a mid-size law firm and make more money? Maybe not big law money but certainly more.

Could most move to a job where they consistently got paid significantly more? No.

And at smaller firms there would be tremendous pressure to bring in clients and worries about collecting, among many other issues Feds don’t have to deal with that make their jobs far more pleasant.

Anonymous wrote:I just moved from private sector to fed and took a 30% pay cut. You want me to take another 25% pay cut why? I already can’t afford a house in the DC area. We’d lose our best employees at the time they’re needed most of you make it even harder for us to afford this region.

Where exactly would these best employees go right now? All the companies that have laid off much of their workforce?

I just moved from private sector to fed and took a 30% pay cut. You want me to take another 25% pay cut why? I already can’t afford a house in the DC area. We’d lose our best employees at the time they’re needed most of you make it even harder for us to afford this region.

I prefer that Fed employees, and their contractors, keep getting paid. At least this way, I feel we get something for our tax dollars instead of just tossing out money to everyone.

Because you're just trying to be mean?

I fully expect that we'll soon see a hiring freeze and wind up doing our colleagues' jobs as well as our own when they move on or retire, just like after sequestration. Many of those cuts became permanent. That has been proven an easy way to save money on fed salaries. If the justification for a pay cut is just "make more people suffer," no, that's not acceptable.

Anonymous wrote:Again, the question should be not 'why do the Feds have something I don't' but "why did I lose everything that the Feds still have?". Your employer sucks.

+1 million. What Feds have now is a pale memory of what everyone had before Reagan. Insist on better from your employers.

Not going to happen, OP. Deal with it.

Anonymous wrote:Even if it wouldn’t save that much money, as a matter of principle it would be nice to see Feds share in the pain much of the rest of the country is experiencing. Being above the forces that affect everyone else in the country feeds into the notion that Feds are a protected class above all others.

I disagree—why inflict “pain” just for the sake of it? Businesses that are cutting pay are doing so for business considerations, not just for the heck of it. Should we also cut military pay for the same reason?

Because we don’t get to enjoy the upside when things are good.

Anonymous wrote:As was mentioned in another thread, the idea that most Feds take a huge pay cut to work for the government isn’t true, especially for attorneys. There is more truth to that for PhDs and certain researchers, although there are only so many private sector jobs in these fields, especially in DC.

Yes, I remember you. You really think most federal attorneys couldn’t get a job in a mid-size law firm and make more money? Maybe not big law money but certainly more.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of psycho is sniffing around to find people whose pay should be cut?

A MAGAT who doesn’t realize the majority of Feds don’t even live or work in DC? Probably the guys who astroturfed the MI “protest,” so that the plebs get mad a some imaginary “Feds” living high on the hog rather than the billionaires responsible for all their actual misery.

Someone who probably forgot about the 2008 recession and how feds didn't get raises for years, hardly get raises that keep pace with inflation, and were subject to sequestration.

Also, a lot of Feds are still working.