I’m not nervous. Shut it down. The employees will get any back pay they might miss and the respite from DC’s banging on the pots and pans will give us a chance to talk about something else.
‘The employees will get any back pay’
That is also a problem for me. Why would they be paid for time they didn’t work. They’re overpaid and underworked to start with, this is just an additional insult to taxpayers.
As far as I’m concerned, this is an occupational hazard of the cushy job they accepted. Sometimes, the tax river gets dammed up and stops flowing. Oh well. Should have not been so lazy and taken a job in the private sector and risked permanent layoff with no pay.
It’s far more outrageous to give the non-essential workers pay for time they didn’t work (assuming they ever worked at all). Paycheck Harvesters is all they are. If they’re non-essential for one day, they are non-essential for all days.
‘You’re Fired!’ as some famous guy once said...