When the Govt shuts down, you get a free UNPAID vacation of unknown duratation. You may, or may not be paid for it. That is up to the Congress critters that created the mess to begin with.
We got a 1.3% raise last year, which is up from the 1% raise the year before, which is up from the 0% we had for the previous several years. These raises are pretty much fixed. Bonus? Ha ha ha ha
My commute is 90 minutes EACH WAY to work, daily. I am up at 4:20am, leave home at 5am and get home at 5pm nightly. I do enjoy every other Friday off as well as my weekends.
I was an engineer working in the computer industry, but the instability of the industry caused me to trade a ~50% cut in pay for stability.
Has there ever been a shutdown in recent decades where the employees weren’t paid in full retroactively?