Govt employees: are you enjoying your taxpayer funded days off?

[longhornfan1234]

Must be nice to get a couple of weeks off compliments of the tax payer. Don't worry though.... those of us in the private sector will keep things moving like we always do. Unfortunately.. everyone can't have a job that contributes no economic value.

[Riley Martin]

Right, because private sector workers don't take holidays and paid vacations.

[longhornfan1234]

Right, because private sector workers don't take holidays and paid vacations.

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Middle school PE teacher. Thanks for your contribution. Govt employees usually get more vacation and PTO. They can then save enough to take 2 or so weeks off at the end of the year. While private sector employees may also have that much vacation.... most can't take that much time off consecutively because commerce doesn't take a vacation. Don't worry though, private sector workers will continue to carry Govt employees.

[Myth]

[GimmeThat]

Thats as much as saying "hows keeping your job, without contributing any economic value."

[Jailblazers7]

So you would rather them get paid more and have less time off?

[longhornfan1234]

I guess have fun on taxpayers' dime. I'm pretty salty, doe.

[Kblaze8855]

You say that as if they dont pay taxes......

They are funding their own day off.

And there is an obvious economic value to many government jobs. What happens to the economy minus teachers, police, and highway workers?

Roads are one of the more overlooked aspects of keeping an area viable to large business.

[Godzuki]

government jobs are the most spoiled in the country. not all since not all get all of the vacation days, benefits, etc. many do, but the majority tend to get every little stupid holiday off, on top of that snow days like a elementary school kid does, and government lockout shit thats paid too. shit is so kush its criminal what tax payers fund. and the higher you go like Congress barely working is criminal they get away with it

roads are pretty dead around my way when government is off. makes me realize how big our government, or their contractors are. not gonna lie, shit pisses me off with lockout shit, that is like free vacation thanks to that fgt Cruz

[Jailblazers7]

I work with govt clients and their jobs are not awesome. They don't get paid well, their resources are shit, they are typically understaffed, and they give a new meaning to the phrase "office politics."

Yeah, they get more vacation (and a pension most of the time) but their daily slog isn't fun.

[KyleKong]

Make another stupid thread and I'll knock you unconscious.

[dkmwise]

Starting salary for a border patrol agent is $13.41/hour or $27,982 per year. They have to undergo a strict background check and polygraph to get hired, go away to one of the toughest law enforcement training academies in the country, become fluent in Spanish in a short time, then go to the border, get shot at by better armed cartel members and get thrown under the bus and undermined by their own government. Oh, and work 24/7 365. And very hard to ever relocate away from the southwest border.

What a super kush gig

[SourGrapes]

Must be nice to get a couple of weeks off compliments of the tax payer. Don't worry though.... those of us in the private sector will keep things moving like we always do. Unfortunately.. everyone can't have a job that contributes no economic value.

keep breaking your back (if you even have a job) to fund the super-rich, while we enter a new gilded age that will stunt scientific and technological progress for years to come.

all in the name of some overly dogmatic brand of capitalism that is meant to transfer wealth from the hands of the op into jeff bezos et al

[Myth]

Because there's so much value in you telling kids to run laps. How would the world go on without you?

Enjoy your 8 month schedule, if that even is your real job...

If you motivate kids to be in good shape, they will be healthier, contribute to society through work rather than being on disability, and require less taxes to keep them alive.

[Derka]

I'm a taxpayer too, you f*cking dolt.