I’m retired from the feds..human resources. Furloughs, reduction-in-force etc. happen all the time as a consequence of operational and policy decisions. Much ado about nothing and I, too have little sympathy for temporarily laid-off “non-essential” employees who will be paid when they return to employment they still have. Any politician who uses the plight of the laid off federal employee to leverage an end to the shutdown (and mitigate border security) should be ashamed of themselves.
RE: I, too have little sympathy for temporarily laid-off “non-essential” employees who will be paid when they return to employment they still have.
What if this shutdown lasts till 2020?
From an inside perspective...do most employees go home at a reasonable time/have a set schedule. A friend of mine who took a job with the government mentioned that salary-wise she wouldn’t make what she could in the private sector, but she’d be guaranteed her lunch hour and leave at 5:00 every day.
This article talks about monetary and salary benefits only, but not about total hours worked to get there.