You typically are if you are routinely audited

So much for broad over-generalizations, right?  There are so many reasons why people do not have savings and live paycheck to paycheck.  There are so many adversities and circumstances that might create this that I won’t waste my time listing them.  A recent study said 40% of ALL families (not just gov’t workers) fall…

Guaranteed annual raises? https://www.npr.org/2018/12/31/681286942/trump-orders-pay-freeze-in-2019-for-all-civilian-federal-employees I’ve had more years with pay freezes than ones with small COL raisers. No, I don’t work for ICE. I work for the VA and not affected by this shutdown. And while there are certain…

The resentment in these comments is funny. If you think govt jobs are so great, why don’t you have one.

You want the raises of govt worker? Get a govt job. Take your own adivce, bro. Your bootstraps are right there.

Ah, Iowa, my love. How I’ve missed your irrepressible spirit of Christian charity.

“ANGER ANGER ANGER” is the standard response. It’s easy to be one of them. “SHUT THE FUCK UP GET A JOB YOU PUSSY”. See? Easy. 

One of my friends:

I’m a lowly contractor. Our pay and benefits have not kept pace with the federal workers that we work alongside and who in many cases, have far less seniority than we do. We were already forced to take days without pay for the Bush funeral and Christmas Eve, because those “holidays” were not part of the contract. The…

My Lyft driver to the airport was an FBI agent with a sick kid. How much does that fucking suck?

Dear Splinter,

Sooo, they’re mad that they closed a bunch of plants that were making cars that people weren’t buying. To retaliate, they’re going to take away an economic incentive people use to buy some of the cars GM is still making, which will most likely reduce demand for those cars, which would absolutely force GM to lay-off…

The Republican Party: Now with zero actual Christian values!

The Republican Party: Now raising taxes!

Reimbursement for Rustbuckets? 

some point between 3 million and 12,000 years

I’m not sure how to take this. “Proceeding with life” would mean that, to a rational employer/manager, taking action to ensure that this doesn’t happen under their watch again, whether that be with a current or future employee.

Example: I took my beater to a quick oil change joint down the street this summer…

Buy local.....really? That sounds great if you are in a major metro, outside that you are pretty much shit out of luck for a lot of stuff.

The same people document it after as did before. Non-police government agencies, other emergency services, and NGOs. Just because once responding force is disbanded doesn’t mean the rest of the infrastructure or civil society is as well.

You mean there’s a major employer in Seattle so now they have a rush hour from people going to work? How awful.