Quote Originally Posted by TheGrey View Post
Thank god you're not King of the World.

Try this: you're busy doing your job, living your life...and suddenly, your boss comes to you and says, "Well, four hours to set things into hibernation mode and then go home. No pay, no idea when you're coming back. You know all those important time-sensitive projects you've been working on? They'll have to wait. Bye."

YOU don't know or get to decide who lives or dies. YOU don't get to decide who or what is "essential".

This furlough has certainly displayed the true colors of a lot of people. Do you know, for instance, that the same government that has determined these jobs are not essential, decided that all of the food service people, the caddies, the cooks and so on at Camp David were untouched by this furlough? Please tell me how this makes sense.
I have invited him to see how stupid/dysfunctional/lazy/incompetent/wasteful/useless we are but he has not taken the bait. While I do understand that many .gov workers have issues and I myself had had issues with them the blanket statements made show that the OP has no clue how the many DOD workers here operate.

Most are ex military and support our armed forces. The post just shows how out of touch he is with the local situation.