Govt agencies told to prepare for mass firings in case of govt shutdown

[Lisa558]

2025. Your team controls the House, Senate, SCOTUS, and President bro, AND YOU CAN"T EVEN KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OPEN???

It will remain open regardless - with essential workers.

And in reality, all we should have are essential workers. In private industry, non-essential workers are laid off.

 

[TemplarKormac]

2025. Your team controls the House, Senate, SCOTUS, and President bro, AND YOU CAN"T EVEN KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OPEN???

Hey, your party set the precedent for these past 10 or so years.

 

[Moonglow]

it sure was in the Post Office.....way to many bosses....

I don't go there.

 

[Moonglow]

Hey, your party set the precedent for these past 10 or so years.

Ahh, yes, the two wrongs do make a right analogy.

 

[Moonglow]

It will remain open regardless - with essential workers.

And in reality, all we should have are essential workers. In private industry, non-essential workers are laid off.

I do just fine being non-essential.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Hey, your party set the precedent for these past 10 or so years.

Not my party. I was a Republican.

 

[1srelluc]

What a lot of people don't realize is that if you are deemed nonessential during a shutdown your job is merely on hold. you don't really even have a job.

If a RIF is declared during a shutdown you can be told to come get your shit (or go turn it in) and you are gone.

It happened once during a shutdown when the wife was working at FEMA....They got shed of a lot of dead weight at FEMA HQ in DC and shut some "temporary" offices (that had been handling Katrina and Sandy forever) down permanently.

There was a long shutdown (maybe Trump's first term?) and the wife was just a few days away from being able to collect unemployment before it ended.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Ahh, yes, the two wrongs do make a right analogy.

Nope.

It's the "your side did it too, so you have no place to talk" analogy.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Not my party. I was a Republican.

The key word is "was." It seems you've migrated a bit left I'd wager.

 

[Lisa558]

What a lot of people don't realize is that if you are deemed nonessential during a shutdown your job is merely on hold. you don't really even have a job.

If a RIF is declared during a shutdown you can be told to come get your shit (or go turn it in) and you are gone.

It happened once during a shutdown when the wife was working at FEMA....They got shed of a lot of dead weight at FEMA HQ in DC and shut some "temporary" offices (that had been handling Katrina and Sandy forever) down permanently.

There was a long shutdown (maybe Trump's first term?) and the wife was just a few days away from being able to collect unemployment before it ended.

The other thing is that these shutdowns are ADDITIONAL paid vacation for employees. They get all the back pay.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The key word is "was." It seems you've migrated a bit left I'd wager.

Nope. I didn't leave the party. It left me.

When has a shutdown helped the Republican cause?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Nope. I didn't leave the party. It left me.

When has a shutdown helped the Republican cause?

When does a shutdown help anyone?

 

[WelfareQueen]

Sounds like a plan!

Sadly that will seal Virginia's fate in the upcoming Governor's race.

That was sealed long ago.

 

[1srelluc]

The other thing is that these shutdowns are ADDITIONAL paid vacation for employees. They get all the back pay.

If memory serves the "long one" hit during the Thanksgiving holiday....It was great!

 

[Moonglow]

Nope. I didn't leave the party. It left me.

When has a shutdown helped the Republican cause?

I used to be a Republican when I was young, dumb, and full of energy.

 

[Zincwarrior]

When does a shutdown help anyone?

Then don't have it. MAGA controls everything. Why can't they get their shit together?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Then don't have it. MAGA controls everything. Why can't they get their shit together?

Democrats are not blameless in this scenario.

It's all tribal warfare.

 

[x chicago]

Even before COVID, govt workers were at the pool half the day, clogging up the aisles at Trader Joe’s, at the movie lines, running personal errands, some even at the golf course, and SOME even going to beach and ski vacations - all on government time.

link?

 

[x chicago]

How would you know?

That's her opinion, but I wanted to know how she knows all these people were at swimming pools and the health food stores and even--those vacations! Did she follow all these people around like a reporter?

 

[Lisa558]

If memory serves the "long one" hit during the Thanksgiving holiday....It was great!

My friends who worked for the government loved it. They were hoping for more paid vacation and were disappointed that they had to go back to work and actually EARN their paychecks!