[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

None of the posts in this thread have bashed Federal employees. As far as I can tell, everything posted is completely factual. No bashing.

Is it too late to do some bashing? Asking for a friend.

[Number 10 GI]

I believe I may have posted this story before, but here goes again. When I started working in civil service with the state of Tennessee, I went around introducing myself to the other workers in my department. One lady was reading a paperback book at her desk and I asked her what her job was and she said she was the assistant to a lady she pointed out to me. That person was the assistant to another lady who was the assistant to the department Commissioner.
In government a supervisor's importance is based on how many subordinates they have, more subordinates mean they are a very important person. It's called empire building. Most government offices are way overstaffed, except the driver's license offices.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by alwann

With all due respect to Juneteenth, just how many federal holidays annually are observed these days? Given nearly 3 million fed employees, those extra paid days off must cost tax payers a bundle. Are these days off in addition to vacation and religious holidays?

Well, at least the are working…….

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Juneteenth - Wikipedia

No Federal mail today.

Juneteenth | National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth | National Museum of African American History and Culture

On darn, I was so looking forward to picking up the junk mail and bills.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

The inefficiencies of the fed govt get worse and worse

I agree, those GS employees come in and leave as they wish, it called flex time. A problem they solved cause They couldn’t get to work on time or back from long lunch break. Now in the other hand WG employees time accounted for down to minute.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

Also some states and their school systems now treat Juneteenth as a paid holiday, not Florida though.

I still celebrate George Washington's Birthday on February 22 and Abraham Lincoln's Birthday on February 12 separately. The creation of Presidents' Day was inane.

So far 18 states, more will join as years go by.

[Calisport]

Thank you Ms. Juneteenth for wasting 20 min. of my time to get the mail today.
This is the replacement for Independence day in some mindless people?

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Calisport

Thank you Ms. Juneteenth for wasting 20 min. of my time to get the mail today.
This is the replacement for Independence day in some mindless people?

Yes, it is the replacement for Independence day in some mindless people.

For everyone else, it's the celebration of the day officials from the east coast of the country went to Texas and informed everyone that the people living there hadn't been slaves for the past year and a half - because Texas chose not to inform them of it themselves.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Yes, it is the replacement for Independence day in some mindless people.

For everyone else, it's the celebration of the day officials from the east coast of the country went to Texas and informed everyone that the people living there hadn't been slaves for the past year and a half - because Texas chose not to inform them of it themselves.

Do we really need a national holiday now, 155 years later over this?

[SeaCros]

For most of the people who live in The Villages, I thought everyday was a holiday. So who cares? With the new federal holiday the challenge is to do some research and learn about some history. Step outside of yourself and or the bubble and remember there is a big world out there.

[me4vt]

Why not Labor Day?

[Deandd]

If we get enough juneteenth like holidays maybe we can get the federal government to intervene even less …..

[Mushkie]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Washington and Lincoln both deserve their own dates for what they did for us.

I want President Trump on Mount Rushmore!!!

[photo1902]

Originally Posted by SeaCros

For most of the people who live in The Villages, I thought everyday was a holiday. So who cares? With the new federal holiday the challenge to to do some research and learn about some history. Step outside of yourself and or the bubble and remember there is a big world out there.

It’s just another hot button topic for grumpy old people to get their panties in a bunch about.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

There are now 11 Federal holidays. They are in addition to vacation time and sick leave. A Federal employee with at least 15 years of service gets 11 paid holidays, 13 days of sick leave, and 26 days of vacation time. But, in my opinion, they don't cost the taxpayer anything because most Federal offices are so overstaffed that days off don't have much effect on productivity. The largest issue for a Federal manager is sick leave, because an employee can accumulate 13 days per year with no limit. So, after 20 years, many Federal employees have enough sick leave to be absent from the job for more than a year, and the supervisor cannot replace them. This would never work in the private sector.

If you could call in sick for a year and get paid, could you in good conscience do it? I couldn’t. Plus, wouldn’t the employer check to see if the employer is really sick? Taking the days without being sick would be fraud, wouldn’t it? I was a professor at a state university for 34 years. I accumulated over 450 days of sick time. If I’d become seriously ill, that sick leave would have been a life saver. I thought I’d simply lose it all when I retired, which is what usually happened. Instead, the state universities, wanting to get rid of those of us who were old and in the way, offered to pay us for one fourth of our sick days in a lump sum if we would retire at the end of the school year. A lot of us took that offer. That’s the only way I could afford to move to The Villages. The rest of those sick days went unused.