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Jan 15, 2019
10:10:44am

StarMan All-American

Don't get hired in an "at-will" appointed position! 😃

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StarMan

Previous username: ByuMba90
Bio page: StarMan
Joined: Jan 15, 2001
Last login: Apr 29, 2024
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Time

POLL: Has the government shutdown affected you personally? If so, how?

Cougarrr

1/15/19 9:08am

Some project work was suspended.

mudpupper

1/15/19 9:09am

Yes, my local McDonalds and Wendy's ran out of burgers.

Vincent's Picks

1/15/19 9:11am

Some websites I need to reference are offline.

1/15/19 9:12am

This is a problem for my wife, so her frustration is personally affecting me....

StarMan

1/15/19 9:13am

I put yes, but it hasn't really. TSA lines were a lot longer but I am precheck,

ChiCityCoug

1/15/19 9:12am

if my brothers and sisters are being affected, i'm being affected. i have been

smokymountainrain

1/15/19 9:13am

Have scriptures or the church taught us to practice selective compassion?

StarMan

1/15/19 9:14am

selective compassion? where are you seeing that?

smokymountainrain

1/15/19 9:15am

RE: selective compassion? where are you seeing that?

StarMan

1/15/19 9:25am

weird link to use to make your point, but whatever.

smokymountainrain

1/15/19 9:27am

If you love the Gospel so much, why don't you just marry it? 🙂

svenot

1/15/19 9:16am

Salt Lake Customs are not conducting Global Entry interviews.

OceanMang

1/15/19 9:16am

Yes- it made me laugh a bunch at the President serving 300 hamburgers to Clemson.

cheezedawg

1/15/19 9:18am

Just a few projects, but most is DOD stuff, so not a lot.....yet

SUAVO

1/15/19 9:19am

Friend of mine has been without work

1/15/19 9:19am

yeah, but its not you, so who gives a crap, right?

smokymountainrain

1/15/19 9:22am

Yep i wasnt dumb enough to make the decision to get into public service. NVM that we need people doing those jobs

1/15/19 9:23am

seriously. lol @ that moron.

smokymountainrain

1/15/19 9:24am

This happens every week in the private sector. A good friend of mine was laid off 2 weeks before Christmas. Totally

cheezedawg

1/15/19 9:46am

Public workers can never be fired for poor performance? Wow did i get into the wrong gig.

1/15/19 9:51am

Steve Bannon raises hand. Tillerson and Comey would like a word.

Y2k

1/15/19 10:00am

Don't get hired in an "at-will" appointed position! 😃

StarMan

1/15/19 10:10am

it's hard, but certainly not impossible. I help commands fire lots of civilian employees

byujag

1/15/19 11:19am

I put yes, because it has technically affected me, but not in a negative way

Gigo

1/15/19 9:21am

We got 18 inches of snow over the weekend. They haven't plowed the Post office

BYUMizzou

1/15/19 9:29am

Probably $6000 or so

Y2k

1/15/19 9:39am

Can't get in contact with program officers from NSF. Normally they answer me

AggieWeekendCougar

1/15/19 9:48am

I tried to add a new number to the do not call registry. Site was down.

The Old Y

1/15/19 9:54am

I have some pre-IPO shares in a pending IPO and the SEC is closed so on hold.

yerromnitsuj

1/15/19 10:07am

Worked nearly every day since Christmas. No paycheck.

Homercles

1/15/19 10:48am

Do they pay you for what you've done when it's over?

Cougarrr

1/15/19 11:52am

Exempt employees like me are guaranteed to get back pay, yes.

Homercles

1/15/19 12:01pm

I'm not getting paid and losing more and more Japanese language by the day.

1/15/19 12:33pm

At what point do you start looking for another job that is paying?

cheezedawg

1/15/19 12:34pm

Are you wishing for me to quit? I stopped practicing law, took a pay cut and waited over a year to get this job after

1/15/19 12:45pm

I don't wish you do anything, and I feel sympathy for your situation just as I do others going through employment

cheezedawg

1/15/19 1:32pm

I said "No" because every so often I'm reminded of it. If I didn't watch or listen to the news, I...

Crowgar

1/16/19 4:41pm

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