Every single person who works for the Trump administration is garbage. If an actual saint worked for this administration, I would still say the saint was hot garbage because they chose to work for Trump. Obviously, my statement isn’t speaking to the career employees of many departments and federal agencies, because those are non-political posts. But if you’re Senate confirmable or you work in this All-White House, then you’re FUBAR and I hope you enjoy prison.
Some Trump appointees get a lot of attention, and some don’t. I’ve never paid much attention to Wilbur Ross, the current Secretary of Commerce. He’s allegedly a billionaire (the jury’s still out on that one), and before the Trump administration, he was known as something of a bankruptcy vulture – he would buy failing companies and “restructure” them (ie, fire most employees) and find a way to make them profitable and then selling them off for a large markup. He’s also got Russian business interests, because obviously. Well, Ol’ Wilbur decided to chime in on the Trump Shutdown and he simply does not understand why all the peasants are visiting those ghastly food banks.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he does not understand why federal employees who are furloughed or have been working without pay during the partial government shutdown would need assistance from food banks.
Several credit unions serving workers at federal departments and agencies have been offering stopgap loans, as they have during previous shutdowns. But it’s not clear how those loans would even be sufficient as the shutdown enters its second month.
“I know they are, and I don’t really quite understand why,” Ross said when asked on CNBC about workers getting food from places like shelters. “Because, as I mentioned before, the obligations that they would undertake, say borrowing from a bank or a credit union are in effect federally guaranteed.”
Still, Ross — who oversees a cabinet department that is under the shutdown due to a lack of appropriations— was downplaying the effect on the economy at large.
“Put it in perspective, you’re talking about 800,000 workers, and while I feel sorry for the individuals that have hardship cases, 800,000 workers if they never got their pay, which is not the case they will eventually get it, but if they never got it, you’re talking about a third of a percent on our GDP,” he said of the affected federal employees. “So, it’s not like it’s a gigantic number overall.”
Who amongst us has not taken out a bank loan to buy groceries during a government shutdown, amirite? I imagine Ol’ Wilbur sneering down his monocle as he said this. Pish-posh, these food banks are dreadful, why would one choose to go there? Why can’t a bank float you a loan for your groceries this month? How much could a gallon of milk cost, after all? A hundred dollars? A regular bank will take care of all your needs, quaint food bank attendees.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
I’m an atheist, but when i run across a turd this smelly, I almost want to believe in heaven and hell to imagine him suffering for eternity.
This!!
Same! If I thought an afterlife hell for industrial-strength assholes could be a real thing, I might jump right on the least patriarchal religion train I could find and bask in the beautiful thought that someday narcissists and sociopaths would get their richly deserved justice. And that the humble in spirit would truly inherit the earth.
AMEN!!!!
I am a Christian though I no longer believe in a literal heaven and hell, but I do fervently hope that there is one for the cleansing of these horrific souls.
I like to think of pieces of work like this in terms of reincarnation – that they’ll come back as the persons or animals they cause the most suffering to.
Since Ronald Reagan…there has been HORRIFIC wage stagnation…
Back in the late 70s…my Uncle, a chemical engineer…made over $90k a year…that SAME job is paying about that amount…NOW…and my Uncle didn’t have staggering school debt and INSANE housing/transportation costs to deal with either….
The money I’m making now…I made when Clinton was POTUS…
You do the math…
Sociopaths like Wilbur Ross who have robbed and pillaged workers and gamed the tax system while he pays NOTHING and they take ALL OUR MONEY are disgusting and until wage stagnation is addressed…and the FEDERAL MINIMUM IS NOT $7.25 AN HOUR…working class folks will CONTINUE to need to go to food banks when they don’t have income coming in…or will continue to put gas/bread and milk on their credit cards because their paychecks don’t cover the necessities…
Well-stated, Lala. I am more educated than either of my parents and am child-free (not counting my kitties), and I will never have the net worth they do, even though they put three kids through college debt-free and their house is paid off. Why? Because of wage stagnation, a systematic attack on regulation, and a general desire by the powerful to put money over human lives. And I am extremely, extremely fortunate, and privileged in a way that many in this country aren’t.
Personally, I won’t be happy until we see everyone who works full-time above the poverty line (the minimum wage needs to be raised), with affordable health care coverage, and the ability to retire someday (through retirement income supplementation). Plus, we need better public support for mental health and homelessness generally. There needs to be a systematic shift in public perception that public programs are “leeching” on the system. PLEASE. Let’s talk about the 30 years of very low tax rates for wealthy individuals and corporations, failure to prosecute white-collar crime, abusive business practices (cough Amazon). All of these things have concentrated money among the very wealthy, and that wasn’t enough for them. Now they have shifted the Overton window (through careful planning and a lot of money invested) enough that the public isn’t even that aware, much less outraged, over the Citizens United ruling, and dark money is shifting the courts and the entire Republican party to the right to everyone’s detriment except the very powerful.
tl;dr: The refusal to invest in the well-being of the public has concentrated money and power in the hands of the very rich, and they aren’t going to try to stop buying power and influence because it’s never enough. Power corrupts, and we need to walk the influence of the very rich and powerful way back. Oligarchy (even if by proxy) is not a good thing.
Medicare for all, affordable college tuition, and a living wage are the only things that will change our current trajectory. It will get worse until we have–at the very least–those basic things that most first world countries have.
Most of the very rich are the biggest parasites.
@kitten, while I’m all for affordable college tuition, I think that we should start with pushing for something even more basic: affordable daycare, paid mat leaves and good public schools for all (which includes paying the teachers and other school employees a very good wage). It’s almost useless to have lower college tuition if most kids don’t have access to proper schools and daycare, otherwise, we’re just subsidizing the riches
@arpeggi – PREACH. Think how many millions of poor children get left in the dust. How many gifts are wasted? How much brilliance goes unapplied? How many brains are left to themselves in subpar schools? It makes me crazy to think of it.
I saw a tweet yesterday that describes our current situation as a country. It said why go to college and pay $45,000 a year to end up in a job paying $40,000 a year. These kids are drowning in college debt and also trying to survive on minium pay. I tell my kids a college degree is like a high school diploma. But the 1% and their tax cuts help the country.
Lala, perfectly stated! “Life” is so much more expensive but the wages have not risen along with the cost of this new expensive life everyone has. The living wage is something most people don’t have, even with a 4 year degree because of college debt and the cost of life.
My parents were born in the sweet spot before the jump of everything. Newer home in great neighborhood with the best schools around for 40,000k! This was the 80’s. Their home is work 200k now! My mom stayed home and my dad worked a non-college degree factory job. We traveled the country, paid cash for every new car we had, House was paid for within 2 years of buying it. Sure we weren’t spoiled brats but we didn’t want for anything. We had a fun, fast weekend car and a massive inground pool. All on a one income, factory non-college educated job. You would be on government aid of all kinds and in a crap hole apartment with awful schools of that was the current day.
I have a 4 year college degree my parents paid for, and I’m so grateful. I really want to go to grad school in the next few years.
“Well-stated, Lala. I am more educated than either of my parents and am child-free (not counting my kitties), and I will never have the net worth they do, even though they put three kids through college debt-free and their house is paid off. Why? Because of wage stagnation, a systematic attack on regulation, and a general desire by the powerful to put money over human lives. And I am extremely, extremely fortunate, and privileged in a way that many in this country aren’t.”
Everyone is going to yell at me but this is
*whispers*
largely my parents’ (Boomers) generation’s fault.
I’m also in the exact same situation as you. 40 years old, child-free and I make great money (my paramedic BF does NOT) but we are still renting. I’m still better off than many but it’s hard to see the once-affordable neighborhood I live in now starting at $2800/monthly rent for a small one bedroom/one bath apartment. Buying in the city is for the very wealthy and well-off, sadly.
And of course, my circumstances are partly due to my own choices. I *could* move 90 minutes away from my office and buy a house, but I choose not to because I can’t stomach the idea of a 4 hour commute in rush hour traffic every day. But I see so many people my age who have shitty credit, live paycheck-to-paycheck and are still renting, even when they have kids. It’s crazy and this shouldn’t be the norm.
But I digress, YES to everything you and Lala said.
Kitten, that’s where my thought process was going with this before I got all distracted by rage at the billionaires buying political influence. My dad is a lifelong Republican, and keeps drifting further to the right because of the toxic Faux and talk radio ecosystem he wallows in. If you can’t see that EZ Bigly is, in the very best case, a raging, incompetent narcissist with dangerously authoritarian instincts, and at worst, a kleptocrat who’s determined to advance his self-interests at the expense of an entire country, then I conclude you are brainwashed. It’s endlessly frustrating because his grandchildren (my brother’s kid’s, they are all under 3) are going to inherit a fatally over-used planet and will have drastically limited career prospects because my parents’ generation refuses to see what’s in front of their faces.
My dad actually tried to defend that Covington shithead, and there’s just no reasoning him out of it. He WANTS to get mad at someone, and the less economically and socially fortunate are the designated targets of the outrage that Faux and company sell. And the elected Republicans are complicit. It’s mind-boggling and I’m not sure we’ll pull ourselves out of this one. Elected Republicans need to go unless they are willing to impeach EZ.
So awful, Sadezilla, I’m sorry. I don’t know whether to feel comforted or horrified (maybe a bit of both?) over the fact that all these Americans have become brain-washed. On one hand, it’s an explanation that feels better than “they’re all just horrible people” but on the other hand, it’s TERRIFYING to see this happening in real-time to people we know and love.
I wish we could get rid of Fox News. Fox is a poison that permeates every dark corner of the Right and it is continuing to erode our collective dedication to truth and fairness. They are a huge factor in enabling this Presidency, packaging and selling inhumane political policy as patriotism. It’s so sad.
I’m sorry about your dad..that must be so damn hard.
No one’s going to yell at you for being exactly right. And not only did the baby boomers put us in this situation, they are also keeping everyone from achieving what they did by placing barriers to entry in certain industries. My husband’s industry is Land Surveying. The average age of a land surveyor in Texas is over 55 years old. In the 80s and 90s, the industry and licensing board of land surveyors put extreme regulations on licensing requirements. My husband has to have a four year degree, 32 hours of course work afterwards (roughly 1.5 years– 3 semesters), 2 years for apprenticeship BEFORE he can take the Surveyor-in-Training test, and then after he passes the test, he has to wait another FOUR YEARS. And the boomer generation is wondering why there are so many lazy millennials…
Part of the problem is that under the Bush administration, they removed real estate costs from the metric by which the government calculates inflation. It’s obvious why – it would be impossible to ignore the staggering difference between wages versus cost of living increases otherwise. This way, they can pretend it’s just a matter of people not working hard enough.
For the record, I make quite good money now, and even I live with friends because it’s more financially convenient and helps them out. Fortunate that I do because their third child was born with a heart condition that gutted them financially, so I’m basically help pay their mortgage until they get back on their feet. I have no impetus to leave because I’m close with them and their kids, and real estate is going up quickly around here, but obviously not everybody has that privilege of a decently well off friend with no children of her own.
This is all true. People don’t realize how expensive basic living is.
My husband and I have student debts. We purchased our home and have 3 children (would like a 4th). We are considered to be in a “great” position because we own the home in a large city and manage our children. But that’s what we have – we don’t have extras. We have never had a proper “vacation.” We take the occasion day off but can’t afford to travel. We have one car (for my husband, because his job requires traveling between sites, mine does not). I have a bus pass. My children attend charter schools. We also have family close by, so my father in law (who is retired) watches the youngest, cost-free. We don’t do date nights, we don’t do “special expenses.”
And we are doing far, far better than many. We have homeownership, which many people consider a “great” marker of financial stability. But we bought the house because it was cheaper to buy than rent. That’s all. And we know that a single massive expense could damage us. And what REALLY scares me is retirement, because frankly, we aren’t putting much towards it at 33.
and don’t forget all of those sweet added bonuses that executives get — the paid lunches and dinner ‘meetings’ at the latest restaurant; the car service to/from; and reimbursement for every single thing …
I worked for one of those guys and saw it up close how they padded those charges.
Republicans and the 1% have done a masterful job using social issues and cultural wars to pit the working class against one another. As long as we’re at each other’s throats about abortion, respecting the flag, etc. and stay divided rather than unite against them, we’ll never get ahead in this country. They’ve got people so brainwashed and conditioned that unions are the enemy and you shouldn’t protest or stand up for your rights. If collectively, the working class united for the same causes (living wage, health care for all, free college tuition, decrease in military spending) we could actually take back control of this country and create a country that works for all of us rather than the few.
his wife (who likely wouldn’t even look at him without his $) needs to learn to match her foundation to the rest of her skin tone. Orange face, white body. nice look.
and he’s an out of touch jerk.
I’m sure it’s a love match.
She also needs to buy dresses that fit, her bust is trying to escape!
These guys need to be kicked out of office ASAP
Orange and white, republicans’ favorite colors.
Jesus Christ…these old white men are so out of touch it is obscene
dotard considered firing him because old willllbuuurrrr would nod off in the mid-MORNING meetings… but since he realized that above all else, willlbuuurrrr is going to protect his class, dotard leaves him alone.
Such a disgrace!!! These people are so out of touch with the lives of the majority of Americans.
They think everyone has the same choices they do and therefore have no empathy for Americans involved in the shutdown.
This is what happens when you put incredibly rich (or pretending to be rich) and incredibly unqualified people in positions of power. He doesn’t understand that people are suffering or care, apparently. He wouldn’t care that a little girl who lives just a few miles away from his palatial DC mansion was afraid to tell her parents that she BROKE HER HAND because they’re so worried about money now that her dad isn’t getting paid by DHS. (https://www.abqjournal.com/1271695)
This needs to stop and he needs to go.
But it is not only the 800,000 employees who are suffering. It is all the other businesses and their employees who depend on business from those government employees.
How can this twin turtle brother of Mitch McConnell not understand that? What a pathetic person
Yes, he’s completely ignoring that this is way more than just 800,000 people missing a few paychecks. I know several people who are gov’t contractors and they won’t be getting any kind of back pay. Then there are all the people that federal workers and contractors would typically pay for personal goods/services (haircuts, getting work done on their home, restaurant owners, buying groceries, paying for childcare, etc. etc.). They’re now all seeing their business go down and they aren’t going to just get it all back when the shutdown is over. I’ve been seeing news this morning saying that economic growth for Q1 will likely be half of what it would’ve without the shutdown. To say that the impacts of the shutdown are limited to the federal workers who are out a paycheck is taking an incredibly limited view of the situation.
Yes, it’s more than a little concerning that the SECRETARY OF COMMERCE doesn’t understand the basics of an economy. But I can’t say I’m surprised in this clusterf#*! of an administration.
For all the crowing about trickle down economics the GOP does, they never seem to acknowledge that it goes the other way too.
Well, my credit union’s not offering any loans, although they are allowing us to skip January loan payments. Don’t know about February. And yes, this is the administration of the out of touch millionaire. We’re on our own, folks.
Rich people seem to forget how expensive basic necessities like food can be. They go because they’re hungry and working without being paid, Wilbur
Also because they have to conserve cash for other things like rent or mortgage or health insurance, etc. (Running out of toilet tissue would be my personal fear….) Getting free food really helps, and that’s the easiest thing to get free because it’s such a basic need.
Did anyone picture Montgomery Burns giving that evil speech?
lols exxxxxceeeeellent
🤣🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Silly peasants with their need for food and shelter…simply outrageous!
I know, why don’t those lazy peasants just go get jobs so they can pay for those things themselves instead relying on handouts and entitlements…
Oh, wait….they already have jobs?
does he understand that loans charge interest? if your budget is already tight, that will screw you. and does he think federal employees with bad credit are guaranteed loans during the shutdown?
Good luck getting one if your credit is wrecked in the first place or if you lack any appreciable assets that can be honored as insurance to the lender.
Ah yes….why shouldn’t folks just go into debt when not being paid the money they are rightfully owed since they earned it through working? Why can’t folks who are struggling to pay car bills, mortgages, insurance, and medicine just add another looming payment and more antagonistic creditors charging interest so they can, you know, eat? Gosh these are such mysteries. I don’t think we’re ever gonna understand this insane behavior of people taking advantage of food banks by…(checks notes)… using them for their intended purpose instead of stupidly not signing their lives away one more time at the bank.
If only Lara Trump could explain that their children and grandchildren will thank them for their sacrifice, then maybe these folks would get it together and realize that it’s worth a little pain to go into hock for food you should have been able to easily afford, cause, you know, you already worked to earn the money to buy it without a loan.
He gives Dick Cheney a run for his money in the pure evil category.
This guy and McConnell are Trump’s Dick Cheneys.Trump is like a clown in a circus who keeps all the media attention whereas his « Cheney’s » know how to work/know the system and use it for their benefits
Don’t forget Stephen Miller.
I just can’t with these people. I can’t. I have a few patients who are either working without pay or who are furloughed and i am not charging them for their sessions during the shutdown. Some of them need me even more during this time and I am not about to let them down. I can afford to work without a few billable hours. I am blessed to be able to.
thank you for being a good person in a world with so few of them.
You really are such a good person, paranormalgirl. People in power aren’t gonna save us but maybe we can work together to save ourselves.
What kitten said!!! You are a great person because you don’t *have* to help but you DO!!!!!
We all should do what we can. There but for the grace of something or other go any one of us.
People like you are what inspired me to go into medicine, paranormalgirl. I hope I have the resources to be as capable and giving when I’m graduated and in a similar position to do right by others.
I’m sure you will. I make good money and married well (LOL) and I can afford to do pro bono work. I think everyone in a service field should set aside some time to help others. My husband is an attorney (entertainment contractual law) and does about 10% pro bono at this stage.
The Trump confederacy must be stopped. They are cruel, heartless, and stupid. So very stupid.
I’m going to call it Trump Confederacy from now on.
Yes, that’s exactly what it is.
I literally cannot with these useless cockwaffles. Imagine being so rich that you’re stupid. Just flat out stupid. You no longer have any concept about basic realities like how loans work, what it takes to get one, and the fact that they have to be paid back WITH INTEREST.
All of these monsters should have a Freaky Friday situation happen to them, where suddenly they’re body swapped with someone in poverty – let them live on food stamps, not have health insurance, have to work ill or injured so they don’t lose their job, have to work multiple jobs just to survive.
The American government now aspires to the level of workhouse.
No question in my mind why that blond is on his arm.💵💵💵💵💵 He’s 81 so I guess she’ll outwait the previous two wives.
I’m so sick of hearing “but they are going to get paid for there work eventually” comment, do they expect these federal workers to say that to the grocery store, daycare, pharmacies and landlords and those people are going to be well okay come back later to pay us.
And the thing is, a lot of them are NOT furloughed! Janitors, security guards, and other federal contractors get no back pay. NONE.
Do you not have unions over there? That workers aren’t being paid for the work they’ve done, and yet they aren’t out striking in the street is ridiculous.
America has been very successful in demonizing unions, unless they are police or firefighter unions, e.g., most folks would associate unions with the likes of Jimmy Hoffa.
Um excuse me but union workers HAVE been striking. They f*cking marched to Mitch McConnell’s office and get what happened? They were arrested. Federal workers have been striking EVERY DAY in DC and a quick google search would tell you as much.
People are so weird when they comment how Americans aren’t doing anything. Did you not see the post about the teacher’s union strike on this very blog–not related to govt shutdown but still an important and inspiring step to hold our govt accountable. We are doing everything we can FFS and I’m tired of people who don’t live here making it seem like we are not.
It would be nice if some of the people here realized that America is almost the same size as the European continent, yeah? In one country, we have close to half of the total residents y’all have across fifty countries. People who act as though a general strike is a simple concept are showing a serious disregard of the logistics here. Why do you think China and India – countries with populations even higher than ours – are struggling with social revolution? Organizing that many people behind one set of ideals is pretty damn difficult.
Unions have been increasingly stripped of their power over the last several decades, anyhow. The GOP is particularly notorious for supporting anti-union law because it helps big business exploit the lower classes. Not that unionization helps these people, much – public sector employees are not legally allowed to strike in most places, and we can all thank Reagan and the PATCO firings for that. The penalties are illegal strikes are severe and most of them would likely lose their jobs if they haven’t quit already. For them to even make the move against Washington is a big deal and a very brave risk for them to take.
In addition to logistics, there are a few other cultural factors at play. First, most middle-class Americans are really, really busy keeping afloat on a daily level and may not have the time or resources to jet across the country or take a day(s) off work to attend a protest. Second, the US federal government tends to not be too affected by demonstrations – it’s simply not as strong a democracy in the US. European democracies tend to be a little more in the hands of the people and Europeans in general have greater legal protections in terms of civil rights, less diffusion of propaganda type media, less corporate ownership of government, etc.
Pond scum.
Yes ma’am, you said it right. Unbelievably out of touch. I could spit just looking at his shrivelled up bald mug. Nasty piece of excrement.
And that woman hanging off him? What needs exactly pushed her in his shrivelled direction. Gah! Working for a living can’t be so bad that she married him.
Wilbur Ross is yet another Trump-ite with Russian connections. He was Vice-Chairman of the Bank of Cyprus. The B of C is known mainly for laundering billions of rubles that have been looted from Russia by Putin and his buddies. Ross severed his connection with the bank before joining Trump’s cabinet. And of course he’s out of touch and unsympathetic with the Federal employees who have no income. I’m sure he thinks they are all overpaid in the first place, and anyway groceries for a week for a family of four run about $100 right? He really is pure evil.
My husband works for one of the sub-agencies at Commerce. This garbage is technically his boss.
This is/isn’t shocking. So fing what if we get backpay? (And many of us won’t.) We need to pay bills NOW. We are deferring every bill we can. I just ran out of one of my asthma meds, and will forgo it so that we can buy my son’s asthma meds (it’s shocking how many people think that feds get free healthcare and medications).
My husband is out right now looking for a job. How likely is he to be hired when he can’t give an employer ANY idea how long he will be there? A week? A month? Who knows.
The administration has us in a hostage situation. We’re not willingly sacrificing anything, as garbage Lara Trump said. Our families, our bills, our expenses are being held hostage. It’s beyond sad to know that our jobs are seen as completely disposable.
We don’t work for an administration. The appointed people have work and are getting paid. They’re the ones with money to begin with – otherwise they wouldn’t be part of this racist garbage administration. Peasants like us, who work for the American people, aren’t getting paid. We have to stand in food lines. We don’t do this work to get rich. We could make more money in the private sector. We do this work because we believe in the role of the federal government. It’s all so disheartening.
The bright side of this dumpster fire has been the help offered to us by our communities – food, hygiene products, bill deferments. I will always remember those small/HUGE acts of human kindness.
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
Another corrupt, clueless, senile old coot.
Let them eat cake!!
This sort of reminds me of when Mitt Romney tried telling low-income kids who can’t afford to go to college to “just borrow some money from your parents.” They have zero concept of what it means to struggle and think that if you’re not dressed in rags begging for food, you’re not REALLY poor. Disgusting.
I have never had to struggle in my life to pay my bills, but I know right from wrong, and I can empathize with and help those who are not as fortunate as I am. It’s called being a human being. Wilbur and his kind are monsters.
They. Don’t. Care. There’s on sentence that spells it out, it won’t affect GDP. They don’t care about actual people as long as GDP “looks” good. I hate to be mean but I’m also over feeling sorry for folks who vote for people like this and then force the rest of us to deal with the consequences from these turds.
We all need to get off our phones and start protesting. These rich a-holes need to be thrown out. 25 people controlling the worlds wealth HELL NO
Chris Rock once stated that if the poor really knew how the rich lived there would be a revolution. Just like trumpers think the Donald cares about them. EZ might have the same taste in fast food but this is where any similarity of lifestyles begin and end. It boggles my mind that the Donald grew up during the peace, love, and understanding phase of the boomers. He has zero compassion for anyone but himself and his crime family. When did my generation of hippies become right wing 1%’s?
Times are very bad when the basic needs of the citizens in a very wealthy country aren’t being met. My parents were of the depression era and I fear I might be forced to endure one as well. I thought I’d be riding off into the sunset by now. Jokes on me.
Another guy in the admin. Don’t know what he does but he’s still getting paid told the press the the fed employees are volunteers so they don’t need the money?!?!? When a journalist challenged him on the definition of volunteer, he called it semantics. Those people aren’t volunteers. They are indentured servants. I want Mark Warner to sue. You can’t hold people’s pay indefinitely!
Oh yeah, in the news this am was OPM forgetting to negotiate with BENEFED (the people that handles vision and dental insurance) and now the furloughed workers are getting billed for their share of their insurance (you get billed every two weeks). Just lovely, as if they don’t have other things to worry about. What a clusterfuck.
Yes it’s so awesome. I am so looking forward to getting my benefeds bill and figuring how to pay it. And watching my savings dwindling.
I don’t live paycheck to paycheck but I don’t have gigs of money tucked away in savings to go off work for months. I don’t want to raid my retirement and kids college funds. And the kind of work we are allowed to have is very limited.
i survived the shutdown of 2013….and the gov workers didnt give a GOTDAMN about us consultants/contractors when it came to losing our option year and not being paid and not getting back pay….they would snick and shake their heads and like well at least were getting back pay
i mean idk obv im still salty about that but in my survival of the gov shutdown i was living beyond my means as in apt that couldnt afford— almost got evicted during that time….ended up trying to go into temping which everyone was trying to do and with the influx they were playing games with us right and left…i remember calling the a state agency trying to understand what was going on and they said we can only maybe help government workers not you….
so i would employ everyone to ALSO have compassion for contractors…..luckily my fiance and I have been spared but i know tons of people having to use all their PTO and alll their saving and not given an option year on their contractor and have resorted to substitue teaching and tempting with no beneifts and ever having back pay.