Posted on 06/12/2025 12:15:57 PM PDT by Racketeer
"Do not betray the public servants who gave decades of their lives to this country," she wrote in the petition.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
So many parasites...so little time.
As part of the downsizing, the Social Security Administration offered her a $20,000 voluntary separation incentive to retire at age 53. Her last day was April 19, just three weeks shy of her 35-year mark......”
OK, so she should find another job and work for 4 (age 53 to 57) or 14 years. Do I feel sorry for someone who wants to retire at age 57? Not at all, at age 76 I am still working part time. Working past age 70 ballooned my social security benefits by 32%. She could easily make up for her financial loss, if she was willing to work a few more years.
Sorry, federal worker, you shouldn't get a sweeter deal than the rest of us taxpayers get.
Again another good example of why NPR should have all federal funding cut and that includes any federal contributions from member stations to NPR.
I still have 200 shares of pan am stock. when they went belly up, I made them send me the certificates as souvenirs.
I think many people would understand and go along with this if the BBB didn’t have a $2.2T deficit penciled in. (Please let me know if that projected deficit has gone down any.)
You are an idiot.
Many of us worked overseas long long hours withoutout overtime. 12+ hour days as communicators who open and close coms, handle pouch on weekends and coms as well.
I spent 12 years straight overseas with Army DISA Network and State. We loved our jobs and duty.
Your experience about the DC beltway might be accurate, where people might be a GS7/9 and show up at Fort Bragg and not be qualified as a GS4. That is in part because yhe cost of living and beltway corruption.
I usually had to open coms for the embassy and its tenants, before they opened and then closed when the Ambassador or Political got done late, typically 12-14 hour days for 6 of 8 years at State. Then the weekends, and dip pouch, or running phone or network cabling, fixing PCs, Printers, or comsec housekeeping because you met yourself coming and going, usually without supper, breakfast and eating on the run.
There are 10-20% in every organization that makeup for all those lazy shits you accuse everyone in govt.
And I was burned out at 54 and hung it up with 33 years, over 20 military.
That social security stipend is worth about $300 so what those pikers are whinning about is not much. To hear the comotion about these payments is almost comical.
80% of the State Dept should face a firing squad in my opinion.
And the government retirement benefits that people picture aren't always there, either. I was talking with a municipal firefighter many years ago, and he described the best retirement package I had ever heard of: he could retire after 25 years (in his mid-40s) with full pay and benefits! When I told him how fantastic that sounded, he told me that every single one of his friends on the department who had retired ahead of him was dead by the age of 50, from cancer. So he was actually dreading retirement - he considered it a death sentence. More commonly, government employees seem to retire in their 60s with some fraction of their salary - and that isn't always a lot. Because my mother split her teaching career between two school districts in different states, her pension income is less than what a minimum-wage worker would make in a year. Talk about a 'golden retirement'...
Thanks for your thoughtful posts.
Not all government employees are jerks — the DH was one and worked hard — but if NPR is championing her, I am guessing she is a bum. (And the DH would never have described his working as “serving.”
Thank you.
She is despicable. There’s nothing special about government service unless you’re going to be shot at or at least a high risk of being shot at. Seriously, WTF is with people thinking they’re Mother Teresa just because they did a garbage major at college and then took a government job. Government work is not charity; it’s participating in oppression.
One of my best friends is a public defender. The people he has to deal with and the stuff they did is almost sickening. But the cops in his jurisdiction routinely plant evidence (those cases rarely ever go to trial because the PD has good evidence, including that the only prints *inside the baggie* belong to cops, the guns recovered only have cop prints on the rounds, etc.). He's a government official, but he sees the most important part of his job as preventing "government error".
You got paid for those 12-14 hour days. Nice paychecks during those times. No overtime because you were higher than a GS-10. If military, it was your choice. Draft ended in ‘73...
Too late. Betrayed us for 35 years.
Go away.
As did I. I worked for the VA as a Hospital Clinical Pharmacist. I liked my work and my first concern was for the Veteran. Our wages were less than on the outside but the benefits were greater. It was in effect about the same.
My problem with the VA is it is top heavy with management and stupid rules that impede efficient health care delivery to our veterans. The Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists etc. work hard with rare exceptions.
One of the main problems for management in the VA is it is difficult to fire bad employees and reward good employees. I was management for one year and hated it. I went back to staff by request.
I worked the night shift by choice. All the assholes were at home asleep and they appreciated I did the night shift that they did not want to do.
I saved more than one life by intervening on bad therapy orders relative to drug therapy. At night the residents are in charge mostly. They needed our help and were receptive and thankful for it.
I had a great job that I loved until retirement.
Full pension, not full pay.
Thank you for all you did for the veterans.
Not full pay, full pension. Years of service * 1% * Average of high three annual salary (no bonuses). If she makes $100k with 35 years of service, that’s $35k pension, which is taxable.
They don't. The government pay scale is public record. Now, "backdoor benefits" are sometimes applied. That sort of thing is what DOGE is examining.
I can get my hands on 100 shares of Shanghai Telegraph Company stock.
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