Paid vacation my ass. We’ve been told by upper management we will be sent home without pay, and that we will NOT be paid retro-actively for time missed. If you’re going to go after an easy target, and least load your ammo right.
You must be young. Because it appears that I’ve seen more of these than you have. I’ll start with the 1995 one:
“That shutdown lasted 21 days, sending more than 284,000 government employees home on unpaid furloughs and forcing 475,000 essential employees to work without pay for weeks.
Although all were eventually paid when the budget was passed in April 1996, the shutdown rippled across the economy.”
http://www.macon.com/2011/03/02/1470618/federal-shutdown-reprieve-likely.html
So spend a bit less time listening to the union bosses and more time in independent thought.