Why Federal Workers Deserve What They're Paid

The Washington Post ^ | February 3, 2010 | Joe Davidson

[dragnet2]

Interesting how many “conservatives” turn out to be closet “moderates” or liberals. All you need to do is to criticize or threaten the existence of the particular program or “employment opportunity” the left has bought them off with.

This site is loaded with these types....Nothing worse that flaming political groupies that are nothing but hypocrites to the core.

[dragnet2]

Thanks for outing Poundstone. Now his comments make some sense.

These people are really easy to spot, even when they attempt to sugar coat their responses to make them fit. When asked to respond to hard questions, they often just slither off.

[editor-surveyor]

What a crock of puke!

Federal employees are lazy ignorant, cognitively limited tax eaters!

[editor-surveyor]

"There's always someone around who imagines that federal employees do nothing all day and still get paid."

Yep! - Except its not in any way imaginary; its at least 60% of them. Forest Service is the worst.

[Republic of Texas]

No you don’t. Someone else is performing that task now.

[Flying Circus]

Nope. Engineer.

Engineers in government employ get nice pay automatic pay increases annually while we in the private sector have to work hard to keep up with inflation(Federal COL increases alone out pace my merit based increases-and I’ve performed at a level that allowed me to often get raises when the majority of my co-workers did not). They get the job security while I’ve watched friends and coworkers get laid off every year since I’ve started working professionally. And they get a nice, strictly maintained 40 hour work week while us private sector shlubs have to routinely put in 50-60 hour weeks.

Nice work if you can get it. The boredom and tedious paperwork might my work day more unpleasant, but I’m sure an extra 10-20 hours a week with my family would make up for it.

[meowmeow]

Near as I can tell, satellites are pretty popular, useful thingies that require launching into orbit on big pointy rockets and will for some years ahead. So I’ll take my chances with my lowely government “position” since I don’t got smarts like you to make it in the real world. Thanks.

[muawiyah]

Hmm ~ unionization ~ pretty much craps out at GS 5 or PS 6 (or the wage grade job classifications).

Treasury has some folks a bit higher but that's a special deal there.

For the most part extensive unionization occurs mostly in the Postal Service.

I do believe that you have to look at local and state governments to find a lot of unionized government workers.

[muawiyah]

Still, the customers think they own the company. Makes ‘em particularly obnoxious.

[Errant]

Not a problem for me love. I hope you are better at your job than at judging what other people know. Good luck to you.