• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah…. That’s not a holiday.

    Jokes like these make it seem less not-okay for these asshats to fail at basic responsibilities just because fucking with the budget is a way to stick it to the democrat in office.

    The reality is the financial stress imposed by people who are doing vital work fucks them over and leads to brain drain for the private sector. Federal employees deserve financial stability- or at least, not getting their paychecks dicked around with because some asshat wants to be obstructionist.

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            1 year ago

            My entire Command (and most of the rest of the DoD) are considered “excepted”, which means we’re still required to show up and work. The only silver lining is that the Government Employees Fair Treatment Act was passed in 2019, which guarantees that we will get back pay (and this still doesn’t help everyone living paycheck to paycheck). Before that, it was actually an open question if we’d even be paid for the work done during the shutdown.