Posted on 05/23/2017 11:58:43 AM PDT by abb
More interested in what is and is not in the budget he signs into law.
Here are some things to consider with federal civilian employees:
1. Step Increases - Mandatory increases to pay based on years at the job. “I’m a General Schedule (GS) 12, Step 4.” They only talk about the increases in the funding acts.
2. Desk Audits - Employees request these to raise their General Schedule (GS) level. “I was a GS-11, but after the Desk Audit, I’m now a GS-12.”
3. Bonuses - Bonuses given by one government employee to another government employee.
Those government “workers” who do “work hard” aren’t doing anyone any favors. What they “produce” is usually caustic to civil society.
Indeed. The first task is to evaluate what they do, and determine whether it should even be done. Kinda like when bad weather hits DC, and they let “non-essential employees” go home.
If they’re non-essential, why were they even hired?
To top it off, when ever they go home for weather or anything else, they eventually get paid for that time...always. It is yet another paid vacay for these slackers.
Great reference article, for the low-info/lib WaComPost drinkers....like Chuck U Schumer...who’s been out lying about the budget, already today.
Oh, but they make more because they are so much smarter than the average private sector worker.
BS
You left off the porn viewing.
One minor tweak that will vastly increase the effectiveness of this plan is to delay implementation by a short period (30 or 60 or 90 days) after enactment.
The reason that is important is that if you want employees to retire you need to give them a risk/reward decision timeframe.
If it is implemented immediately then there is no benefit for retiring quickly since the new rules will hit retirees regardless of whether they retire early or later in the new fiscal year.
For a free country, this is a disgrace.
About time they cut the allotment from the Federal feeding trough.
But I want to make something perfectly clear. Though there are those who have abused the federal pension system, there are those of us who work for Uncle Sam for meager wages with little to no recognition for our efforts. People say that perhaps 1 in 5 actually do any work, well, I'm that "1," as are many others I know and associate with.
I've been fortunate enough to now work in a building where people appreciate the work I do for them. I don't get paid any more than I used to, but the recognition goes a long way towards soothing the anger that comes with being relegated to a low paid support staff role, though I have two IT degrees and three certifications.
I say all this to say, "don't throw the baby out with the bath water." Keep in mind that there are hard working people in the federal system who do not and will not make lots of money and who will receive a meager retirement when we do reach the age when we can do so.
I’m not going to debate you on the subject, if you did technical writing then you were working with people with brains.
They also had a work product that could be evaluated and quantified.
Not the case with most of what I have seen.
I see people collecting checks they don’t deserve participating in basically a federally funded jobs program that would be out of business in a few months in the private sector.
To add insult to injury, good luck getting on the gravy train if you are the wrong skin color, not related by kin, or not a homosexual.
Hard working but produce nothing? Government bureaucrats?
Begs the question; Then why in tarnation is government so inept, wasteful, corrupt, bloated, redundant and deceptive?
A good start. The unions will fight this tooth and nail.
“I have worked alongside federales. From what I saw, one in five actually worked. If that.”
Many years ago when I had to do business with the federal government I often found them reading paperback books or doing their nails.
I’m a Federal employee and I work my ass off.
I cam from 25 years in the private sector and it took ten years for my salary to catch up and benefits? Are you kidding? My private sector job had bennies. This is a joke.
But I’m serving my country, and that’s important. It really bites to work hard and come here and see all the negative comments, especially when a lot of them are wrong.
Don’t respond to me in PM. Do it right here on the open forum.
The Establishment has been pitting us against each other — poor vs. wealthy. I had been praying for a leader to aim the scissors at the very source of our problems — BIG govt with its BIG perks.
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