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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on December 18, 2013, 12:01:54 PM
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Federal job satisfaction at all-time low
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/federal-worker-job-satisfaction-study-101269.html
Job satisfaction among federal government workers dropped to an all-time low in 2013, according to a new study out Wednesday ranking the best and worst places to work in the federal government.
The report, produced by the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte, marked the lowest score in employee satisfaction and commitment since the rankings were first published in 2003. On a scale of 100, the overall satisfaction score among those surveyed in 2013 was 57.8. The score continues the downward trend of employee satisfaction among federal workers, with 2013 marking the third straight year the score has dropped.
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What.The.****???
You mean to tell me that the pleasure of making DOUBLE what the same skills set would make on the free market, and the joys of needlessly keeping folk's lives on hold at your whim doesn't carry high job satisfaction with it?
Who could have figured? :confused: [/sarc]
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What.The.****???
You mean to tell me that the pleasure of making DOUBLE what the same skills set would make on the free market, and the joys of needlessly keeping folk's lives on hold at your whim doesn't carry high job satisfaction with it?
Who could have figured? :confused: [/sarc]
Yeah, I don't get the whining too. Federal government jobs have great benefits. It is also hard to get fired.
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Well, having been one, I can say you guys are demonstrating half the reason - being used as a punching bag by one side of the aisle, based on half-truths and selective anecdotes. The other half of it is being used as a pawn and hostage by the other side of the aisle.
It's no harder to fire a Federal worker than it is to fire a union member, in fact it's a damn' sight easier compared to firing a lot of union workers. The 'Being paid twice as much' is only a half-truth, there are just as many professions where they drastically underpay for the level of qualification and experience they want and get (Compensated by relative security and a retirement plan that isn't all that, but at least can't go bankrupt). I won't go into a long and boring technical explanation of all the ins and outs on that, but I did Federal labor law cases for twenty years and have a pretty good handle on the whole process.