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Back Pay Uncertainty
President Donald Trump signaled yesterday that furloughed federal workers may not be guaranteed retroactive compensation when the government reopens, a potential shift from previous policy that covered roughly 750,000 employees.
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I remember that Gooferment employees would tell me that they’re 100% secure in their Gooferment GS13 position. Wonder how they would evaluate that now with DOGE chainsawing whole departments and agencies. I used have heated discussions with those poor confused souls that “Nothing is 100% risk free”. I pointed to my and my mother’s experiences at AT&T. We both had “gold watch” syndrome (i.e., the good corporation would care for its valued people from cradle to grave). I took the buyout and she didn’t. And she never realized that the “rules” had changed.
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Seems like a past prediction is coming back to haunt Gooferment bureaucrats.
No matter what you want to believe, reality intrudes.
Sad to say, “told you so”, but as a recovering “gold watch” syndrome victim myself, you can’t trust your future to anyone but yourself.
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Reinke Faces Life 