Posted on 02/01/2019 10:41:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers received their first partial paychecks this week as the government reopened Monday after a 35-day partial shutdown.
While the financial costs for those workers were high, the shutdown also took a heavy toll on employee morale. And it may have the longer-term impact of making it more difficult to bring new people into the government.
"I think this is just going to further kill morale," says Jared Hautamaki, an attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency. "It's going to hurt recruiting."
Hautamaki, who has worked for the EPA for 10 years, says he has had enough.
"Federal employees are demonized by Congress and industry and the public. It's just not a good place to be," he says.
In its annual study of the "Best Places to Work in the Federal Government," the Partnership for Public Service found that federal workforce morale was already on the decline for a number of reasons. The Trump administration instituted a temporary hiring freeze and then a pay freeze.
Now, after the second partial government shutdown in a year, Partnership CEO Max Stier says working for a federal agency feels even less rewarding, especially for those workers with a sense of mission.
"I think that is what's most troubling for the federal workforce," Stier says. "Yes, it had real financial implications, but even more than that, it disrupted the core value proposition of the job, which is to be able to make a difference, to work for a purpose."
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Environmental activists Liz Brandt (from left), with her daughters, Natalia, 3, and Valencia Bednar, 5; Martha Roberts, and Molly Rauch pose for a photograph while welcoming Environmental Protection Agency employees back to work on Jan. 28 in Washington, D.C. Furloughed employees returned to work following the end of the longest-ever partial federal government shutdown.
Here’s an idea: Quit.
BS. They had a long vaca and got paid for it. Whahhhhhhhhhhhhha
You forgot the BARF ALERT.
It could be worse. They could be like us immoral wall supporter SOBs.
The Federal Government is not an employment agency
Surely no one has enough time on their hands to welcome back someone to work
Give them each their own “safe place” and bring in an army of shrinks. They can get through this.
The govenment should have giant corn shucking stations in Nebraska for furloughed federal employees so they have a safety net.
Does anyone else find amusing this picture of the “environmental activists” (no doubt staunch foes of global warming) all bundled up from the cold?
they have not lost one penny and got an extended vacation but yes, it is heartbreaking when you’re vacation ends and you actually have to go to work....poor dears...
LOL these people are delusional fools. There will be lines of people dying to get a government job.
SARC/
Throughout the holidays, too. That’s a break. Someone to watch the kids while mate is at work.
That’s hilarious....
the left sure are a bunch of drama queens
As my Father told me way back when, if you don’t like your Job, quit and find a Job you do like.
“Untold Morale Problems”
The snowflakes should get it off their chest and tell it to Pelosi and Schumer.
“...it disrupted the core value proposition of the job, which is to be able to make a difference, to work for a purpose.”
The EPA: Sucking on the government teat, that’s your purpose as far as I see it.
She’s been unemployed and shows up with a six dollar starbucks.
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