Posted on 02/03/2010 7:26:09 AM PST by Poundstone
ROFLMAO!!!! The Federal goobermint is full of lazy half a$$ workers who wouldn’t last three months in the private sector.
As far as the education thing goes all’s you have to do is look at the financial reports form the goobermint where they are constantly WRONG on all projections. Some highly educated Federal employee cannot figure out that house selling is going to go down last December when we had the worst weather in decades all across the country? Please. Federal goobermint is spelled lazy, incompetent and useless.
Been to your lcoal Post office lately?
Been to the IRS office lately?
Been to the Social Security Administration lately?
Biggest bunch of incompetent f’ offs I have ever seen.
The newest safeguard is that the IT folks have to name each computer now, and computers cannot be hooked onto the network without a name assigned by the administrators and tied to an IP number.
Also, the rest of the US Federal government doesn't pay property taxes either.
We have mail handlers making (with a LOT of overtime) over 100k/year, driving a forklift. Others do unskilled (grunt) work, like hand loading packages into the sorting system. That pays over $20/hour, and could be done by college students for half that, like Fedex. I really get frustrated when I see the waste all around, and can't do a thing to stop the insanity.
Your stink is so bad it came through my computer!
In the DC area a GS 13 isn’t all that high a grade.
We all deserve what we are paid. But most of us in the private sector have had our salaries cut and our out-of-pocket costs for benefits increased and our raises cancelled. We feel the pain when our company decides its time to tighten the belt. In times of $1.5 trillion deficits there is no reason why government workers should sail on as if nothing is wrong. A reasonable across-the-board salary cut is not an insult and not an attack on government workers. It is a prudent measure in times of fiscal crisis.
Educated beyond their intellibence.
Look, for a couple of years I worked in USPS Headquarters Office of Consumer Affairs and I will assure you the general public wins the IDIOT AWARD hands down.
That's grade inflation for you. True, what gets you a GS-5 in Kansas will get you a GS-11 in DC.
A GS-13 (step 8 or so) will get you around $110K. Not bad for a HS diploma and limited skills (as in the specific example I mentioned)
Even as a postal employee, I even hate to go to the Post Office. You’re on the money there. However, it’s not just the government sector. Have you tried to get good customer service from your cell provider, cable or satellite provider, phone company, or any other large business lately? Good luck. Customer service sucks everywhere, with a few exceptions. Small home owned businesses are usually the best, and I do business with them whenever possible.
ONLY!
Federal employees received pay cuts during the period the politicians thought the way to solve the Great Depression was to balance the budget.
I could not help but notice that Obama just bought into that idea.
CLUE: It didn't work last time, and it won't work this time either.
The primary problem is overproduction, deflation, recent acceleration in the rate of technological change, and theft.
There is no will to go after the thieves ~ otherwise there are a number of members of Congress whose carcases would be hanging from Cherry Trees around the Tidal Basin.
“The Federal Government hires lawyers to tackle corruption”
WE know how that is working out!
BTW, if loans are subsidies then what's your mortgage?
OK where's the relevance? Yes their brilliance in preventing 9/11 and their subsequent capture of bin Laden shows the utility of their efforts, but what about the other 2,599,999? And what about the employees of HUD and Education, and ATF and EPA? Not a single one of them would be missed.
Thanks for the comments.
I met a few folks like your paper-filing GS-13 along the way.
And although a GS-13 is only a front-line supervisor in the government, in the Washington, DC area, a GS-13 still makes $89K - $115K per year. Not bad for a clerk!!
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Washington DC has the headquarters operations for the federal agencies and that's where the big dogs work.
Colonels go out for coffee at the Pentagon. They do other stuff in the field. Same grade. Same set of requirements. Same duties. Different manifestations.
Guy who can't get along with the Pentagon probably can't get along with the troops in his command either, so they all get rotated through the Pentagon.
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