When I left the private sector about 25 years ago, I gave up a higher-paying job and lucrative stock options in the company I worked for because I wanted to be on the government side of the table. In return, I got a GS job with lower pay smaller bonuses and slow raises which have been non-existent for the last four years. I’m about ready to chuck it all and retire on the pittance FERS offers. Nod when I get a bad attitude like that, you’ve really accomplished a feat. What discourages me most is comments in threads like this one from ignorant people who don’t make even a feeble attempt to find out facts about the work of a Fed in the Obama administration. I know many old hands who feel the same way I do.
TC
Well at least your healthcare plan is the best in the nation and I don’t know any company that offers the vacation time/sick time/training time that federal employees enjoy. When you match up the total benefit packages of government employees, you’d be hard-pressed to find something comparable in the private sector... unless you’re senior management.
Feel free to retire. We have entirely too many people working in Government, or FOR government. I haven’t had a raise in 5 years, or a bonus in 7. Welcome to Reality, Mister Fed. . .
Sorry, how about this, both public and private
Knock off the bennies, kill the income tax and invest in yourself and/or save for retirement using your own $$.
The taxpayers are not a piggie-bank; and the sure as sh*t don’t get any say at the ‘negotiating table’