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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
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.
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Federal bureaucrats earning $150K up tenfold in past five years Hot Air
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While the rest of America has been dealing with high unemployment and stagnant wages, at least one sector of the economy can thank Barack Obama and Democrats for boom times, and no, it’s not the protest sign design industry. USA Today reports that federal employee wages have skyrocketed over the last five years, with the number of federal workers making $150,000 or more a year has increased fivefold during that time. The number has doubled in the 22 months since Obama took office (via The New Editor):
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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
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.
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having worked with federal employees before, i'm aware of the comp issues, but did you have any union representation?
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