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Chat Thread 69-ing. pitcest??

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DeaconCav06 said:
As a former federal government employee my benefits package was too generous given the amount of work that I did.
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pretty much every entry level job is too generous given the amount of work you do.
 
Except with the government the benefits increase at rapid intervals.
 
Hello said:
So they should just be happy they have a job and not expect any rewards or breaks? That guy would be a crappy boss. What a tool.

Has nothing to do with his social status. Just a greedy tool.
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Yea he also went on all these rants about poor people with rims on their cars and plasma screens and how we all use too much credit and how that caused the financial crisis, and so businesses shouldn't have to pay for people to vacation and other frivolous things like that. I feel like it's this weird idealism that's so impractical. And I'm so far on the other side with my Marxist idealism bit I feel like my ideas about benefits and compensation are much more mainstream.
 
TownieDeac said:
Yea he also went on all these rants about poor people with rind on their cars and plasma screens and how we all use too much credit and how that caused the financial crisis, and so businesses shouldn't have to pay for people to vacation and other frivolous things like that. I feel like it's this weird idealism that's so impractical. And I'm so far on the other side with my Marxist idealism bit I feel like my ideas about benefits and compensation are much more mainstream.
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lol lol lol
 
RollTheQuad06 said:
I bought a Blu-ray player last night for $20. :woot: Now I need to buy another HMDI cable and some fancy DVDs. I'm thinking Planet Earth or somesuch.
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So this is why you didn't come to Bob's? :squint:

Planet Earth is a good call though. Tuffalo and I got drunk and watched that last night, actually.
 
I feel like the chat thread is properly suited for a discussion like this, but the board at large couldn't handle it as well.
 
cookoutdeac said:
So this is why you didn't come to Bob's? :squint:

Planet Earth is a good call though. Tuffalo and I got drunk and watched that last night, actually.
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Well I went and bought the blu-ray first, then went to hang out with some friends who I haven't seen much lately. But yeah, combined that's why I didn't go to Bob's.
 
TownieDeac said:
Yea he also went on all these rants about poor people with rims on their cars and plasma screens and how we all use too much credit and how that caused the financial crisis, and so businesses shouldn't have to pay for people to vacation and other frivolous things like that. I feel like it's this weird idealism that's so impractical. And I'm so far on the other side with my Marxist idealism bit I feel like my ideas about benefits and compensation are much more mainstream.
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Lol what's ironic is that his view on management are why unions are created. And he would have to give more than he would have in the first place. Dummy. I bet he grows a mean tomato though.
 
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Someone make these, and I will eat them.
 
Speaking of sick days... I feel like poo. I feel like I've already committed to this day though.
 
DeaconCav06 said:
It does too.
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It's all relative and definitely depends on your position in the government. My wife was an attorney and is now a judge and from starting as a GS9 to where she is now, it escallated fairly quickly. But the cap on her salary even if she stays for another 30 years is less than first year associates make in my firm, though in the grand scheme of things still pretty damn good. And I have other friends who will work in the government for 30-40 years and never get above a GS14, GS15 if they are lucky. The salary benefits may increase quickly from GS9 to GS14 for them, but then it pretty much stops (except with some minor (and finite) step increases within the grade). I know I'm skewed because of my job and seeing what employees and executives at my clients get paid, but some (not all) of my friends could make a lot more and have better benefits in the private sector. I dunno, I just think that the claims about how easy gov't employees have it and that they get too much just a vast over generalization.
 
Townie, is this your roommate that was out of town last time I visited? He seems like the type to hold these viewpoints...
 
deacphan said:
OHHHH SNAP. BAGELS AND CREAM CHEESE IN THE KITCHEN.
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Working from home = LOX BAGEL FROM BIG BEAR.

I also had to appease the G/F because she's trying to study for a test, and my when I'm programming on my new keyboard it's mad loud. So I surprised her with some coffee.
 
wfudkn said:
It's all relative and definitely depends on your position in the government. My wife was an attorney and is now a judge and from starting as a GS9 to where she is now, it escallated fairly quickly. But the cap on her salary even if she stays for another 30 years is less than first year associates make in my firm, though in the grand scheme of things still pretty damn good. And I have other friends who will work in the government for 30-40 years and never get above a GS14, GS15 if they are lucky. The salary benefits may increase quickly from GS9 to GS14 for them, but then it pretty much stops (except with some minor (and finite) step increases within the grade). I know I'm skewed because of my job and seeing what employees and executives at my clients get paid, but some (not all) of my friends could make a lot more and have better benefits in the private sector. I dunno, I just think that the claims about how easy gov't employees have it and that they get too much just a vast over generalization.
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well the problem is you aren't starting with the theory that all fed employees are lazy and inept and working backward to how they wouldnt even have jobs in the private sector.
 
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