Posted on 09/27/2013 3:52:48 PM PDT by Libloather
Don’t call the federal workers waiting to buy lunch from downtown Washington’s food trucks “nonessentials.” It’s like being branded with a scarlet letter N, or ending up the punchline of a late-night comedy bit that’s actually not that funny when there are bills to pay.
Essential. Nonessential. These are the terms commonly, although not officially, used for employees who find themselves in one of two controversial categories: starting players or benched, during a partial government shutdown that is being threatened.
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“It’s like a stab in the back. Like being told in high school that you’re average and not in the honors classes,” said Steve Ressler, 32, who worked in Homeland Security for six years and now runs GovLoop, informally known as Facebook for Feds. “But it matters, because we need the most talented people to work for government on issues as important as food stamps or Syria. We don’t want the best being driven away by all this beating up on federal workers.”
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Wah. Fact of the matter is most of us elevate our importance. Without us the world will go on. So nonessential, yes you are.
There are only two classifications: constitutional, and nonessential.
If you were told to stay home during last winter’s DC blizzard, then you are non-essential. You probably are getting essential pay though.
“Non-essential” beats “unemployed.”
Count your blessings and don’t fall off the gravy train. It’s a long way down.
Unless you are in the military or Coast Guard or Merchant Marine, you are non-essential. Deal with it
The Person isn’t nonessential, the Job is.
It isn’t personal, it’s the Constitution.
Hurt dog hollers.
I suspect, truth be told, 30-40% of them are nonessential and could disappear tomorrow and virtually no one would notice.
What else do you call someone who consumes the fruits of another’s labor, and provides nothing of value in return?
You are correct. If they have no problem taking off whem the feds close down for weather, which seems to happen more and more since Dumbo became president, then they can’t gripe about being called “non essential”.
Seems like “nonessential” is being polite. They should be happy. I can think of worse.
Umm... My ex-wife? (alimony)
No worries. I have tons of more succinct and descriptive labels for them, especially those who work for certain specific agencies.
OK let me rephrase the question:)
I wouldn’t call the NWS meteorologists at the Storm Prediction Center nonessential. And a lot of the people who do the physically intense grunt work for the feds might be arguably overpaid, but I doubt they could be called worthless either.
In most jobs you are irreplaceable until the day you leave.
You bureaucrats, not only are you nonessential, but you are downright harmful, because you spend your time taking away the freedom and driving up the cost of living of the productive ones and drain them of their wealth because they have to support you with taxes.
Then there is Fools Butt Intense, Infernal Rectalvue Sphincterfaces, Coming In Anyway, Communist Bassoon Cluckers, -but I think you get the point. *grin*
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