You are correct. We cannot take leave and if you are already on scheduled leave during the furlough that gets cancelled and you go into the no-pay status.
No sense discussing a furlough with the people on this forum. They don’t understand that there ARE a lot of government employees who work hard.
They think because you are a Fed Employee you are somehow fleecing the tax payers and should just be fired.
Narrow minded.
I don’t believe that, I know quite a few federal employees who work hard and are going to be impacted pretty hard. However, federal employees are NOT losing their jobs. Just a temporary lay-off, vacation, etc.
I’m supposed to be sympathetic to a group who will either get back pay, get to take paid vacation, etc. while the budget gets worked out? Those kind of things just don’t happen in the real world.
My issue is with the perceptions being espoused that somehow federal employees are “special” and need protection from the realities of this world.
They’re not and maybe a good taste of what’s going on in the real world will wake some of them up.