Government employees live under different rules than the rest of us. For example, when my wife worked for a city owned hospital, she didn't even have to pay Social Security taxes. It's so "nice" for the government to mandate how everyone else has to live but to exempt themselves from the same rules. Furthermore, there's no such thing as tenure or civil service laws to protect the incompetent out in the real world, at least in non-union jobs. How often are government employees held accountable for messing up or even breaking the law? Most of the time, when a government employee really screws up, he/she will allowed to take early retirement where ordinary people would be fired or even looking at jail time.
Me, I work in the most unreal world of all. I'm a contractor who does work for the government. My job lives and dies by the contract and my ability to do my job depends upon cooperation from bureaucrats with agendas. Alice never experienced some of the things I routinely see when she went through the looking glass.
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No, you're a government employee
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- For the lovely Larry
- MA, how are you doing? What in the heck did I miss?
- Time to put on the boots
- "You seem less willing to tolerate the views of others."
- You may also want to consider a cup...n/t (n/t)
- Re: Too late: you're already all wet
- Re: Time to answer
- Superb, as expected.
- Yipes!!
- For the lovely Mary Anne (n/t)
- Perspective.