Coast Guard service member families hitting the food bank.
Federal Prison guards and workers are also going unpaid.
Border guards. Air traffic controllers. Meat inspectors.
I must be more “hard-hearted, mean-spirited” than him because I hope they get RIF’d.
totally agree
If I were a Federal employee I would set aside months payments to get me through an eventual furlough or I would seek arrangements for parttime employment during furloughs. They are given paid vacations when this happens. Some of them draw unemployment. I would turn this into something to look forward to!!!!
Coast Guard service member families hitting the food bank.
Federal Prison guards and workers are also going unpaid.
Border guards. Air traffic controllers. Meat inspectors.
Most federal employees have been on the job for a number of years, and are making a pretty decent salary. They should be able to ride out missing that first pay, even a second pay, especially when they know they will be getting that money back when the shutdown ends. However, a day or two after that first missed pay, there were stories about government workers standing in line at food banks, and others talking about how tough things are for them right now. Nobody likes missing a paycheck, but if they had been living within their means to begin with, this shouldn’t be a problem. Too many people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck, granted, some out of necessity, but most because they want it all now, and they’ll worry about how they’ll pay for it later.
I KNOW I would/could have the gasoline to do neccessities, the money or credit to stay alive, and be warm in the winter with the electric on.
Pay attention America;
NONE of those will be in the tabloids about becoming homeless because the homeless have chosen that (ain't nobody gonn'a tell ME how to live), whereas the furloughed workers are first and foremost AMERICAN WORKERS !
Working Americans aren't shrinkers nor quitters.
FURLOUGHED WORKERS
Jobs available NOW in TX and CA! Wear warm clothes, comfortable shoes, and hard hat if you have one.
What, you don't want the job? Then STFU and stop whining
I’d be happy to feel sorry for them if most of them got RIF’d.
Back in the early seventies, the Army changed their finance system from a manual system managed by the local finance office to an automated centralized system. The roll out was totally screwed up.
No one was paid for months and some went almost a year without a regular paycheck. At least in Europe, the EM continued to be paid, in cash, through casual payments which caused problems when it had to be reconciled because some had been overpaid.
For officers, there were no casual payments. Most had check to bank options, but those checks stopped coming. I was fortunate, my bank was Army National Bank in Leavenworth. They told their customers to keep writing checks to the usual monthly amount, essentially an interest free loan. Some did not have a bank that was so agreeable and they had big financial issues. Credit cards were rare in those days, especially in Europe and in the post Vietnam era, loans to soldiers were problematic, even for officers. I had a friend who wasn’t paid for over six months. He borrowed what he could, sold as many assets as he put his hands on and they got a lot of invitations to dinner.
You can love big government, but it will never love you back. For the reasons reflected in the charts, every government job opening receives many applicants. It’s a good gig, no crocodile tears from here.
Plenty of banks and credit unions out there are giving low interest loans to these workers to get them by as well.
Beyond not working, it isn’t a big impact.
(I know a couple people)
