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Furlough
Topic Started: Oct 1 2013, 04:26 AM (664 Views)
Piano*Dad
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Oct 2 2013, 05:00 AM
I am a federal employee and am the only IT person in an office of 70 people. With that said, I was deemed "nonessential" and am part of the furloughed crew. This time of the month is a very busy time for me as I am tasked to run a multitude of month end reports for HQ. I have mulled this over and plan to go in today anyways and get this work done. I realize that I'm not getting paid for it, but I also realize there is a good chance that the budget gets signed and that we will be paid for not working the days we are furloughed. So I'm going in.
I guess this is also a good time to look around for private sector alternatives. Who knows, you may discover something much better.
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Aqua Letifer
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rofl.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Yes, the furloughed government workers will get back pay:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-saturday-97872.html
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Horace
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Oct 5 2013, 08:23 AM
Yes, the furloughed government workers will get back pay:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-saturday-97872.html
Surely there was never any serious doubt of that.
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Copper
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OK, well I guess we saved some money on electricity by keeping the federal offices empty.

So is it cheaper to pay them to stay home and do nothing than to pay them to go to work?
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Axtremus
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Copper
Oct 5 2013, 09:10 AM
OK, well I guess we saved some money on electricity by keeping the federal offices empty.

So is it cheaper to pay them to stay home and do nothing than to pay them to go to work?
Should be some savings from not having to pay overtime.
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dolmansaxlil
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My sister in law (an Air Marshal) is still at work, but has been told in no uncertain terms that she will not be paid.
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Piano*Dad
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"Told in no uncertain terms" is silly. Whoever told her that is likely to be seen as a blowhard jerk with no credibility two weeks from now. The likelihood that federal workers will get no back pay is really low. These federal furloughs were not a money-saving measure. State governments, however, have occasionally furloughed workers when budgets got tight, but cutting pay was the intention of the furlough in that situation.
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I'd say the chances of an air marshal's boss being a blow hard jerk are astronomically high....
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Piano*Dad
Oct 5 2013, 04:41 PM
"Told in no uncertain terms" is silly. Whoever told her that is likely to be seen as a blowhard jerk with no credibility two weeks from now. The likelihood that federal workers will get no back pay is really low. These federal furloughs were not a money-saving measure. State governments, however, have occasionally furloughed workers when budgets got tight, but cutting pay was the intention of the furlough in that situation.

That sounds right.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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