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Old 11-16-2010, 01:31 PM   #21 (permalink)
Tully Mars
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth View Post
and why are we in some of the toughest economic times ever? partially, a big part, is outrageous government spending.

seriously, did you know in the last 4 to 6 years, the number of people at the pentagon making over 150k a year jumped from 9 to just over 900? 150k a year. that's 133.5 million a year + some.

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desperate times require desperate measures. we're all making huge sacrifices in our own homes, why should we leave an entire class of people untouched, simply because they work for uncle sam?
First I don't know anything about the increase in salaries at the DOD. Do you have a source? I mean if a bunch of folks went from making 147K to 151K then I wouldn't be surprised. From my experience working for the government, something I did for roughly 25 yrs., isn't the cake walk cushy job people think. I know when I retired, at a very reduced rate of pay, they were begging folks topped out on the pay scale to retire so they could hire lower paid new people. I was lucky that I had a side business that augmented my ability to retire.

As for the job itself I worked parole and probation for the last 18 or so years. Our dept. worked 4 10 hr shifts per week... on paper. I rarely worked less then 50hrs a week in reality. Anything over 40hrs a week was counted as comp. time and after you acquired 80hrs of comp time you began to lose it. Every year I lost comp time because there was no way to take it. It's stressful work and you're on call pretty much 24/7. No one calls you in that job with good news. Every time the phone rings you can be pretty sure it's some crisis.

Second as for having an unaffected class from speaking to former co-workers I really doubt government workers are unaffected. In my former dept. they are not hiring new people to replace those retiring, work load is simply increasing.

If there is an unaffected class in the US I'd bet it's the wealthy and upper middle class.
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