Hey, Mr. Cox: your employers (the taxpayers) find it entirely acceptable. If you don't like it, find a better package in the private sector. . .
When I left the private sector about 25 years ago, I gave up a higher-paying job and lucrative stock options in the company I worked for because I wanted to be on the government side of the table. In return, I got a GS job with lower pay smaller bonuses and slow raises which have been non-existent for the last four years. I’m about ready to chuck it all and retire on the pittance FERS offers. Nod when I get a bad attitude like that, you’ve really accomplished a feat. What discourages me most is comments in threads like this one from ignorant people who don’t make even a feeble attempt to find out facts about the work of a Fed in the Obama administration. I know many old hands who feel the same way I do.
TC