Government Shutdown

Stinger said:
Since when? I thought we earn way more SL than we can ever realistically take in normal circumstances. 8 years in and I'm at 700 hours built up.
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I’d bet that most people don’t carry over more than 32 hours a year. Given that people tend to become more ill as they age, I think sick leave should go up the same as annual leave. You very well could have more sick leave than our Tue/Wed and Wed/Thu crews put together!
 
Stinger said:
Since when? I thought we earn way more SL than we can ever realistically take in normal circumstances. 8 years in and I'm at 700 hours built up.
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Ha!

Have back surgery.
Get meningitis (viral thankfully).
Break some things
Have a kid
Have your spouse have surgery and have no family handy.

Shit happens.

Then again, I never was normal.
 
Robertb said:
I’d bet that most people don’t carry over more than 32 hours a year. Given that people tend to become more ill as they age, I think sick leave should go up the same as annual leave. You very well could have more sick leave than our Tue/Wed and Wed/Thu crews put together!
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I've got over 800 hours...
 
I keep mine over 100. Think I’m around 130ish right now. If I had 2 days off a week I certainly wouldn’t get sick as much. Long Island air is also very unhealthy.
 
So doing some thinking, who is paying for our insurance and TSP contributions? Is the government just saying IOU to the insurance company?
 
Robertb said:
Again, how are they screwing people over? It’s no different than people calling in during thunderstorm season. Hell, that’s worse than now given the added complexity. TOP goes up, but safety should never be compromised for efficiency. Whether people are there are not, it shouldn’t bother anyone at all.
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People calling off usually ends up in trainees being used as staffing where they would have gotten training had said person called off

Stinger said:
Since when? I thought we earn way more SL than we can ever realistically take in normal circumstances. 8 years in and I'm at 700 hours built up.
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I’ve seen co workers spouses get diagnosed with cancer and before you know it their 5-600 hour balance is -240 and they are on the voluntary leave donor program. I lost a parent around the same time my daughter was born and we have no family close by. There went 500 hours of SL in a matter of months.
 
Interesting how people are so quick to want the furlough leave when our president said all furloughed employees were Democrats anyway then proceeded to gut federal employee cost of living adjustments since “we can’t afford it” when we’ve been working without pay for a week already. I know that the status quo has always been to backpay the people furloughed but I doubt he does it at this point.
 
Hitchcock said:
Interesting how people are so quick to want the furlough leave when our president said all furloughed employees were Democrats anyway then proceeded to gut federal employee cost of living adjustments since “we can’t afford it” when we’ve been working without pay for a week already. I know that the status quo has always been to backpay the people furloughed but I doubt he does it at this point.
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Congress has already passed legislation guaranteeing back pay for furloughed employees.

Senate Passes Bill to Guarantee Furloughed Feds Back Pay
 
Hitchcock said:
Interesting how people are so quick to want the furlough leave when our president said all furloughed employees were Democrats anyway then proceeded to gut federal employee cost of living adjustments since “we can’t afford it” when we’ve been working without pay for a week already. I know that the status quo has always been to backpay the people furloughed but I doubt he does it at this point.
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Congress would have to not put this in the funding bill for the government. That’s not gonna happen. Imagine 800,000 federal employees calling their congress people.
 
Robertb said:
Again, how are they screwing people over? It’s no different than people calling in during thunderstorm season. Hell, that’s worse than now given the added complexity. TOP goes up, but safety should never be compromised for efficiency. Whether people are there are not, it shouldn’t bother anyone at all.
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I was kind of thinking of it the same way as I did in the Navy. When you work all day and have have to stand two 5 hour watches later that night, just to get woken up at 2 AM and be told you have to stand an extra 5 hour watch because petty officer so and so is sick even though you saw him all day and he was perfectly fine.
Sounds like ATC isn't nearly as bad when is comes to covering for sick people, judging by the responses I got. Plus you get paid overtime, so I can see how that could be a great motivator.
 

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