In Private sector jobs you work your ass off so that you dont get fired and hopefully someday get a promotion & raise.
1) In Public sector you can goof off and practically no one bothers you.
2) Its almost impossible for you to get fired.
3) You know that everyone else is a lazy bum and worse than you esp if they have been around longer.
4) You dont have to worry about your pay as its the poor saps of the taxpayers are paying you.
5) Its almost impossible to get a BAD annual review or merit increase.
6) On top of all of this you can accumulate your SICK TIME OFF until your retirement (almost everyone I know that works in Govt does this). So after 25-30 yrs of practically doing very little to nothing, you get a hefty 5-9 yrs Bonus Pay for all the sick time accumulated but you never really needed as they give you so much time off already!
and we pay for their vast wages for doing nothing.
I worked for the water department for 15 years
You get all the holidays off with pay
1 sick day a month
1annual day a month
2 floating holidays
And your birthday
Total 43 paid days off a year
Insurance is paid for yourself
Management gets family coverage free
Since I was salaried if I showed up, I could leave and get paid for the day.
There was people I didn’t even know what they did making 60K