THE ERA OF TRUMP

[C-Mag]

They authorize emergency measures to keep essential services and roles functioning. It's not really a shutdown in the literal sense.

It's like 25% of the total government.................. really not a big deal, unless you worship Government, then your local church closing is an apocolypse.

[DBTrek]

I was at the FAA during the last shutdown.

Listened to a bunch of entitled government workers grumbling about how they were going to "sue" because their checks would be late, causing them to miss CC payments and shit. Boo-hoo. What actually happened was all the FAA contractors went ten or so days with no pay, while all the FAA workers didn't show up to work for ten days, and then received retroactive pay for the time the government was shut down.

That's right - your tax money paid for FAA workers to *not* show up to work for ten days - and when they came back from their unscheduled PAID time off, they bitched about it and blathered about how they were going to sue.

You have not seen entitlement thinking at its apex until you work a government job.
/shrug

[C-Mag]

Must be rough.
Construction industry is a taaaaaaaaaaaad less forgiving. Show up late for work one time to many and when you get there the boss just says, the ladies in the office have your last paycheck. See ya.

Do those FAA workers have any understanding how the real world works ?

[DBTrek]

The FAA, like all Federal agencies, hires according to a snowflake badge system.
So ... you tell me.

Even the ex-soldiers working at the FAA have a skewed view of life. Most of them went directly from their parents paying for everything, to the military paying for everything, to their Federal government job. The idea that someone else isn't responsible to provide for all their needs is fucking alien to many of these people. It's completely outside of their realm of experience. It's sad.

[Speaker to Animals]

I could definitely settle for barracks life again. Do the nurses still sneak on the weekends? Uncle Sam did alright there.

[C-Mag]

Whatever Trump is or isn't, at least he gave us a serious upgrade in the FLOTUS department

[heydaralon]

no dick either... Which is a nice change

[C-Mag]

no dick either... Which is a nice change

[Fife]

[SuburbanFarmer]

Yes... Begin the Purges.