My agency is fully funded. Unlike the last shutdown when non-essential employees didn't work, but got paid later anyway. Contractors got completely screwed. Also, the 15% of my team I tagged as "essential" felt like they missed out on an unscheduled paid vacation.
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“It doesn’t matter what the problem is, the solution is always for us to give the government more money and power, while we eat less meat.”
Glenn Reynolds
I do not work for fed.gov, but I am supposed to be starting some contract work for a company who does work for fed.gov -- if that makes sense.
The team for which I am supposed to work is on an Army installation, and the team is essentially locked out of the installation until the shutdown ends. I have had a few phone calls from the fed.gov customer, and the customer called me from home as he is "non-essential" -- but still working.
So I cannot work on the contract. And if I could work, I could not get my hours approved or get an invoice approved. Financially it is not big deal as I have other customers and I learned long ago to save for lean times (and for customers who ignore pay terms and pay late), but the pay rate for this contract is pretty high. Since I want to plow a whole bunch of money into the business in 2019, the contract award was well-timed. So my expansion plans may be delayed.
Of course, the final due date will not slip, so my carefully crafted schedule for getting what needs to be done done on time just when into the dumpster.
I feel for the young, new fed.gov employees who have had almost no time to build a rainy day fund as the flood happened before construction of the fund could start. I am less inclined to care for those who have decades of service and know this is a possibility.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/68411...on-food-pantry
In Boston this week, a pop-up food pantry opened for men and women of the Coast Guard, the only branch of the armed services working without pay.
Well, his statement is not without some support.
More data is here:
https://www.govexec.com/insights/gov...3-2015/119144/
Last edited by JV_; 01-12-2019 at 09:53 AM.