Painting with an awfully broad brush there are you my friend?
Many federal civil servants were in the military and served honorably, leaving parts of not only their bodies but also their minds in far away lands to protect our country just so you can sleep comfortably every night.
I worked around many of those people for 30 years and I’m proud and honored have been their coworker.
Do government workers have a deserved bad rep? Yes.....but by NO means not all.
Some people have earned respect and deserve it.
I grew up in a civil service and former military house. Back then civil service could be fired or hit by a RIF. I don’t see much of that going on now. Back then a lot of the jobs were temporary or seasonal. Not so much now.
Agency offices in DC are only 25% occupied. Compared to pre-covid there is probably less than that amount of work getting done. There are plenty of slackers and gold bricks to paint.
I’ve waited two years for a settlement of damages to my pastures by a feral agency. All I got were excuses to covid and office shut downs for lack of progress. Now I don’t get anything. This government is a terrible joke no matter who works for it.
My grandfather said to never work for anyone you didn’t respect lest that rubs off on you. Yeah, gooberment “workers” deserve a bad rap but some don’t.