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Government to shut down at Midnight

gandalfe said:
Or the > 1500 IRS employees in Ogden who are being forced to work without pay.
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Thank god my agency got fully funded before this. Dodged a major bullet. But the entire thing is ********. Is criminal imo.
 
JAZZGASM said:
These shutdowns are a joke. The government still has many people working (and getting paid). Those off work always get paid after the gov't get funded (essentially paid vacation for gov't employees).
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I’ve been on the bad end of a shut down and thank god I dodged this one.

But a joke? The **** it is.
 
Stoked said:
I’ve been on the bad end of a shut down and thank god I dodged this one.

But a joke? The **** it is.
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My friend works for the govt and has been temporarily furloughed. He has been with his epic pass and has been collecting unemployment after the first week of the shutdown (he will have to pay it back when he eventually receives his paycheck). He said the unemployment is covering his bills.

My sister also works for the gov't but is an essential employee so she has to work with delayed pay. That would suck.

But I think I could tough out deferred pay for a free sabbatical.


Honestly, I think private retail is probably getting hurt the worst with gov't employees not spending. I imagine the Ogden economy is hurting a bit from this.
 
JAZZGASM said:
My friend works for the govt and has been temporarily furloughed. He has been with his epic pass and has been collecting unemployment after the first week of the shutdown (he will have to pay it back when he eventually receives his paycheck). He said the unemployment is covering his bills.

My sister also works for the gov't but is an essential employee so she has to work with delayed pay. That would suck.

But I think I could tough out deferred pay for a free sabbatical.


Honestly, I think private retail is probably getting hurt the worst with gov't employees not spending. I imagine the Ogden economy is hurting a bit from this.
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Good for those two. It doesn’t always work out for those two. And what about all the work they can’t do? What about the people that suffer as a result?

I can provide you just as many cases the other way.
 
Stoked said:
Good for those two. It doesn’t always work out for those two. And what about all the work they can’t do? What about the people that suffer as a result?

I can provide you just as many cases the other way.
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Yeah it sucks, but they will get paid. I have more sympathy for people thay get laid off. Now that can cause havoc for a family.
 
JAZZGASM said:
Yeah it sucks, but they will get paid. I have more sympathy for people thay get laid off. Now that can cause havoc for a family.
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I feel for all of them. And for the people that get ****ed because they are being prevented from doing their job.
 
Alfalfa said:
And they don't get paid after the government reopens. Unless they worked unpaid during the shutdown (backpay, not paid holiday). Jazzgasm is a good poster, but that was bs.
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Not sure who you are responding to. The furloughed employees will definitely get paid too. I was part of two shutdowns, was furloughed, and got full backpay. Trump has even approved the payments for those on leave once the shutdown ends.

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2019/01/17/back-pay-approved-furloughed-federal-employees-once-shutdown-ends/

https://www.usatoday.com/amp/2596671002
 
I'm furloughed right now. I plan for this. It happens a lot. We are always political pawns.. many people don't think we essential anyway, or don't understand what we do.. there is supposed to lot of misinformation being speeds in this thread. Plan ahead.... We may be government employees, but if we worked in private industry we would need to be prepared for possibly being out of work. Yeah it sucks, but build the damn wall. I live by the border.... It's a mad house.
 
JAZZGASM said:
Not sure who you are responding to. The furloughed employees will definitely get paid too. I was part of two shutdowns, was furloughed, and got full backpay. Trump has even approved the payments for those on leave once the shutdown ends.

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2019/01/17/back-pay-approved-furloughed-federal-employees-once-shutdown-ends/

https://www.usatoday.com/amp/2596671002
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Good to know that furlough backpay has been approved. There are still hundreds of thousands of federal contractors who won't get paid. In addition to people having no income, with the promise of backpay at an unspecified point in the future. The shutdown is affecting a lot of people. And it's not a joke.
 
Alfalfa said:
Good to know that furlough backpay has been approved. There are still hundreds of thousands of federal contractors who won't get paid. In addition to people having no income, with the promise of backpay at an unspecified point in the future. The shutdown is affecting a lot of people. And it's not a joke.
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Crazy it is lasting this long. But I guess it should be expected based on the representatives we have.
 
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