Re: Federal Employees are Grossly Overpaid
Posted by:
Boozy Allan
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Date: August 04, 2018 01:53PM
Laying down some facts Wrote:
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> The admin jobs are the welfare jobs. Almost all
> black. And they stay in the same job for 35 years
> and retire as a maxed out GS7/9/11 with all the
> benefits the rest of the feds get. They are, for
> the most part, untouchable....
That is so true - and I don't understand where the "reality" of the super-qualified GS workers comes from. As a contractor, I worked at DHS and the FDIC, the career GS employees at both agencies were/are worthless, and figured out long ago how to leverage all work to contractors so they could: surf the net; get really nourishing lunches; read the WaPo from cover to cover, while they prepared for uber-stressful "staff meetings"; and bolt out the door @ 3:30pm each day to meet their car/van pool to Lake Ridge or wherever.
At DHS, the GS IT employees could easily wrap themselves in the flag after 9/11 and assert they were on the "front lines" of homeland security. What bullsh*t! They weren't battling the Taliban toe-to-toe, instead, I recall they had to man up and starting using the on site more gym at the Springfield location because it was under-utilized! Sleeping behind closed doors or just disappearing for hours on end would never get you called out if you were in the "GS Club". There was a DHS IT manager who was so clueless he had a window office and he cleverly positioned his desk to face the door which was open often (I'll give him props, he didn't sleep on the job), this dude was always staring intently at his computer monitor - clearly doing God's work defending the country! But, um, wait, he didn't figure his monitor was reflected on the window behind him, which showed in progress or stalled Solitaire games. Screen savers and security spoiled the fun of passing by his office to see the games, but I doubt he did little more than play games until he retired.
At the FDIC, if you had "career" status and were hooked up with the National Treasury Employee's Union - you could not only sh*t on contractors, you could tell FDIC management of f*ck off while you read the WaPo with your feet on your desk! We had a "database specialist", a GS/14, who was triple blessed - he had FDIC career status and he was a veteran, and of course, a loyal union employee. He did have a minor drinking problem, which no FDIC manager wanted to deal with so he was sent staggering from one group to another, drunk as sh*t most of the time, and his primary use to the organization was retreating to his office or cubicle to sleep or find recipes to print and share with his over-worked GS buddies.
To sum up, you've got an entrenched clerical population in the Federal Government, who hang on and do the minimum, a "middle class" of contractors that do most of the real work, and and "upper class" of endless GS/12s to 16s that "supervise".
That's a lot of people doing a lot of nothing on the top and bottom end of that pyramid - so hate on the contractors all you want taxpayer sheeple - they are the only ones giving you any value for your grossly out-of-whack GSA hourly rates, which you DON'T want to investigate - it's too depressing!