They also earned vacation leave at a higher rate than many SSA employees do now, and apparently enjoyed many recreational activities that are no longer part of the workplace. Not to mention the higher wages (relative to cost of living) that civil servants and private sector employees alike enjoyed back in those days. So if the point you're trying to make is that employees should be grateful compared to employees back then despite the recent loss of telework, I think you'll need to look elsewhere.
I am a Vet, went to work at SSA as a CR, counted my time to retirement, high pay cheap benefits, but after several years knowing there was no upward mobility and the stress was just getting worse and worse I left. I dont understand why people stay someplace they hate so much.
BHA et al. Used to be a lovely place to work, then SSA was taken from HHS and Baltimore wanted to play like a big boy and made designs on what was then OHA. God bless us, we tried and tried to hold them off, but HPI was the beginning of the end as OHA management was stuffed with DO people. It used to be that poor DO management was sent to OHA as a reward for being bad. They were made paralegals and they could not believe how good life was at OHA. By the time those paralegals got into management, the draconian DO ways had been bred out of them. But HPI brought in DO managers as managers and the transformation was all but complete. Oh the stories I could tell.
The billionaires who own the country lock stock and barrel again think government workers need to be tossed out with the trash. They want to drown you in the tub of shallow bath water. They think even less of the citizens you are attempting to serve. They would prefer if they were all just left to die off if they can no longer be running parts in the machine. I would highly recommend the new article in the Atlantic about American serfdom.
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bet they didnt complain about not being able to work from home.
26 days of vacation and 15 days of sick leave a year? Sign me up.
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They also earned vacation leave at a higher rate than many SSA employees do now, and apparently enjoyed many recreational activities that are no longer part of the workplace. Not to mention the higher wages (relative to cost of living) that civil servants and private sector employees alike enjoyed back in those days. So if the point you're trying to make is that employees should be grateful compared to employees back then despite the recent loss of telework, I think you'll need to look elsewhere.
That's more leave than is offered now for sick pay for anyone, and now you don't get that much annual leave until you've been there over 15 years.
I am a Vet, went to work at SSA as a CR, counted my time to retirement, high pay cheap benefits, but after several years knowing there was no upward mobility and the stress was just getting worse and worse I left. I dont understand why people stay someplace they hate so much.
BHA et al. Used to be a lovely place to work, then SSA was taken from HHS and Baltimore wanted to play like a big boy and made designs on what was then OHA. God bless us, we tried and tried to hold them off, but HPI was the beginning of the end as OHA management was stuffed with DO people. It used to be that poor DO management was sent to OHA as a reward for being bad. They were made paralegals and they could not believe how good life was at OHA. By the time those paralegals got into management, the draconian DO ways had been bred out of them. But HPI brought in DO managers as managers and the transformation was all but complete. Oh the stories I could tell.
The billionaires who own the country lock stock and barrel again think government workers need to be tossed out with the trash. They want to drown you in the tub of shallow bath water. They think even less of the citizens you are attempting to serve. They would prefer if they were all just left to die off if they can no longer be running parts in the machine. I would highly recommend the new article in the Atlantic about American serfdom.
For those talking as if they actually know the history of federal wages and benefits, I offer up this
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/bls/bls_1870_1975.pdf
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