Posted on 05/19/2006 4:25:10 PM PDT by lauriehelds
BTW, my experience with cellphone companies is that the government has been totally displaced from holding the number one position in customer abuse.
"Overpaid jobs: Actors, musicians, entertainers and athletes."
hahaha...that is funny...
They MAKE money....don't compare to Fed workers....
Baloney. The government is a bloated beyond belief. We could eliminate 99% of federal "jobs" (including yours) and we'd all be better off.
I'm assuming they took those jobs AFTER retirement. If so, then that's their right. But someone who has dedicated their career to public service rarely has the same opportunities as someone who has dedicated their career to the private sector.
For the record, I'm a believer in a "cooling off" period.
Muleteam1
Were you perhaps canned?
"I donated about 1700 hours worth of sick leave to the people of the United States as an "extra tax" when I retired. (Gad do I despise ungrateful gift recipients)."
You are ungrateful of the gift you received. A career insulated from the real world. What company outside of the fed gov't allows you to accumulate absurd amounts of "sick leave"?
You gripe about a gift that you were given, then claim that by giving it back you were making a sacrifice that was unappreciated.
LOL!!! At least you realize your mistake, and you hopefully won't make it again. That WAS a government employee, after all.
"Think about it ~ how would you have ended up being prosecuted in a federal court for fraudulently misusing them"
How many federal employees have ever faced this sort of prosecution? I'll tell you. It's probably close to zero.
I don't know for sure, of course, but neither do you. There is almost no enforcement of this sort of thing in the federal gov't, and you know it.
Sorry, it wasn't a gift but an "earned benefit". It was "taxed away" by legislation that did not apply to any other group of Americans.
Odds are good that our complainant encountered a CONTRACT WORKER, and not a real government employee.
The private sector equivalent occurs when investigations are made into false workmen's compensation claims, but those usually target the doctors and not the workers.
"Were you perhaps canned?"
Ha! another thing that almost never happens, unless of course you leave early. Most of your career was probably spent making sure that none of your peers left a minute before they were supposed to.
No, I quit because I decided a socialist system in which people got paid for existing, rather than performing was not for me.
You look a gift horse in the mouth. You should be more grateful to the people that allow you to retire in the style to which you almost certainly do not deserve based on the work you did as a civil servant.
You were saying.............?.
I've actually worked with a lot of government employees. Some are as bad as the stereotypes. Some of them are excellent. It just depends.
"Sorry, it wasn't a gift but an "earned benefit". "
We're never going to find common ground here. No sense debating.
Would it make you feel better if I said "thanks for returning the 'earned benefit' to the taxpayer"?
I don't blame you for riding the gravy train for a career....some people feel entitled to do just that. Just don't complain about the ride, ok?
Odds are almost any employer is going to end up with an average workforce.
I don't recall it being a "gravytrain".
"Odds are almost any employer is going to end up with an average workforce"
No. The federal workforce self-selects for below average.....those who can often leave. Those who can't always stay.
Odds are almost any employer is going to end up with an average workforce
If that were the case then there'd be no progress.
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