Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I'm not clear who's making more than $160K. GS-15, step 10, makes you $129,517 in salary. In the DC area, it makes you $155,500. I would guess that USA Today is using the value of benefits (in particular, medical insurance) to make those numbers bigger. (Insurance really is comp, but most people don't include the value of it in what they'd say they earn.)

Also, USA Today is playing a cute trick with its graph. It shows 82,000 workers making $150K, and 45,000 workers making $160K, e.g. I would bet that the latter are included in the former figure to make it more impressive, though most people looking at that sort of graph would read it differently.

we had OT turned on and off, and 15s had trouble getting approval anytime. but maybe there are jobs where the 15s had it authorized?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

we had OT turned on and off, and 15s had trouble getting approval anytime. but maybe there are jobs where the 15s had it authorized?

I earn <$200K and don't get overtime, period. Then again I drive a Nissan and think Jennifer Granholm is fuckable so we know I'm not about optimizing.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I earn <$200K and don't get overtime, period. Then again I drive a Nissan and think Jennifer Granholm is fuckable so we know I'm not about optimizing.

Damn. How do you cover your mortgages on that?

And why don't they give you an American car?

And she's Canadian. Of course she is.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I earn <$200K and don't get overtime, period. Then again I drive a Nissan and think Jennifer Granholm is fuckable so we know I'm not about optimizing.

I think i was a 12 or 13 when i quit, so that was like 40 or so, but plus OT and the gov paid 60% of my law school tuition. how Reagan didn't cut the free tuition I do not know.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I think i was a 12 or 13 when i quit, so that was like 40 or so, but plus OT and the gov paid 60% of my law school tuition. how Reagan didn't cut the free tuition I do not know.

The ghost of RR texted me with this governance tip: "If you must create a govt job, make it one at the 33% bracket."

Personally I think it was a mistake to underestimate RR's intelligence even at the very end.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I earn <$200K and don't get overtime, period.

Same here. And my salary (and all the other salaries my employer doles out) was just published by a newspaper. I think they're hitting every public entity in the state. Mack Brown, just in case you were wondering, is the highest paid public employee in the state.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Same here. And my salary (and all the other salaries my employer doles out) was just published by a newspaper. I think they're hitting every public entity in the state. Mack Brown, just in case you were wondering, is the highest paid public employee in the state.

Did they point out that you have four barns?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

we had OT turned on and off, and 15s had trouble getting approval anytime. but maybe there are jobs where the 15s had it authorized?

Overtime for salaried employees?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Adder

Overtime for salaried employees?

well our salary covered 7.5 hrs 5 days a week, and we weren't keeping up with the growth in workload. so they authorized OT so we could keep meeting our very critical date goals.

you have to remember my branch of government is probably the single most important ignition center for the fuel that builds our economy. it was specifically ordered in the constitution: not to brag.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

well our salary covered 7.5 hrs 5 days a week, and we weren't keeping up with the growth in workload. so they authorized OT so we could keep meeting our very critical date goals.

you have to remember my branch of government is probably the single most important ignition center for the fuel that builds our economy. it was specifically ordered in the constitution: not to brag.

Did they allow the sort who would order RBV's at the Grand to work there?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

Did they allow the sort who would order RBV's at the Grand to work there?

I was interviewed for an internship with the US Atty's office in college (to do what I have no idea... a family member told me to do it because he knew the USA). It was unwise to stay up until 4 am the night before, and no doubt stink like something from the floor of a microbus outside a Phish show through the thing. No job was offered.

I take pride in the fact this was the first and last time I ever interviewed for govt work.*


*I have contracted with state govt and submitted RFPs for federal work. All experiences have been nightmarishly annoying. I've yet to meet a person I could under any circumstances describe as having initiative, talent, charisma or any quality that would cause me to think he wouldn't have been better off an unrealized concept thwarted by a good Trojan condom.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I was interviewed for an internship with the US Atty's office in college (to do what I have no idea... a family member told me to do it because he knew the USA). It was unwise to stay up until 4 am the night before, and no doubt stink like something from the floor of a microbus outside a Phish show through the thing. No job was offered.

I take pride in the fact this was the first and last time I ever interviewed for govt work.*


*I have contracted with state govt and submitted RFPs for federal work. All experiences have been nightmarishly annoying. I've yet to meet a person I could under any circumstances describe as having initiative, talent, charisma or any quality that would cause me to think he wouldn't have been better off an unrealized concept thwarted by a good Trojan condom.

You should have a beer with Hank sometime.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

Overtime for salaried employees?

This is the kind of stuff that gets my blood boiling. We pay them for full time work, and yet I see them kicking off early and lounging around on the porch at the Grand. Meanwhile, I have to get in early and leave late just to pay the tuitions, cars, mortgages, servants, liquor bills and other necessities.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

This is the kind of stuff that gets my blood boiling. We pay them for full time work, and yet I see them kicking off early and lounging around on the porch at the Grand. Meanwhile, I have to get in early and leave late just to pay the tuitions, cars, mortgages, servants, liquor bills and other necessities.

2.

eta: whiff?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

2.

eta: whiff?

Nailed it like a goatherd muppet.