“”Good article that really lays out the facts behind federal employment and benefits, in contrast to a lot of the know-nothing criticisms heard here and in other places!””
Oh yes. You are so right. I renewed my driver’s license last week and there were dozens of rocket surgeons behind the counter. Their politeness and efficiency made them worth every bit of their $100k/yr salary.
One of them was able to read and even write too which proves the highly educated part.
I’ll bet the million employees at the post office, the IRS, the passport office, the unemployment office, etc are equally impressive. If you can read a little and sorta speak sometimes, you absolutely deserve to be compensated as well as technicians, engineers, scientists, physicians, etc.
You do realize, of course, that the article was about Federal workers, but your li'l rant here is about state workers? They're NOT the same.
OK. Driving License stations are a state function, not federal. In Tennessee, the pay grade for one of those folks is about the same as my wife makes in another department - about 13 bucks an hour. You only need to work 7,692 hours a year at that rate to get that 100 grand.
*“”Good article that really lays out the facts behind federal employment and benefits, in contrast to a lot of the know-nothing criticisms heard here and in other places!””
Oh yes. You are so right. I renewed my driver’s license last week and there were dozens of rocket surgeons behind the counter.*
FEDERAL employees work at your local DMV?