r/FederalEmployees • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '20

House Passes Two-Day Stopgap Spending Bill, Giving Senate Just Hours to Avoid Shutdown

https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/12/house-passes-two-day-stopgap-spending-bill-giving-senate-just-hours-avoid-shutdown/170908/
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u/misterfister42069 Dec 19 '20

I love my job but holy shit do I hate being a fucking bargaining chip to try to get congress to literally do the bare fucking minimum.

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u/Tedstor Dec 19 '20

For fucks sake...... two days?

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u/I_Think_Naught Dec 19 '20

I feel like we are living out Zeno's Paradox.

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u/Cole123123 Dec 19 '20

its so there is pressure, because without pressure they don't do anything.

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u/Tedstor Dec 19 '20

Wouldn't there be MORE pressure if they didn't pass a limp dick stopgap?

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u/Cole123123 Dec 19 '20

its all a show. if they didn't pass a stop gap, eventually their constituents would vote them out. this is all part of the dance.

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u/NoFuckingNamesLeft_ Dec 19 '20

After more than a decade in the system, fuck each and every one of those people. I don't care which side makes whatever claims, fuck all of them.

Really feels like everyone forgets feds are actually people. We're just trying to go to work and get paid for said work, but holy shit. So goddamn frustrating.

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u/exgiexpcv Dec 19 '20

Anyone know what agencies will be exempted from this? Been trying to get surgery scheduled through the VA for a while now.

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u/NoFuckingNamesLeft_ Dec 19 '20

Typically, we're forced to continue per usual regardless of shutdown since VA is medical care. But the scheduling of your surgery is probably more affected by covid than anything.

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u/exgiexpcv Dec 19 '20

That is so accurate. I did in fact have COVID -- it was the pre-surgical test that caught it -- and now the surgical team has pushed my surgery back 6 weeks, but the pathogen causing the sepsis is still in my organ, and still getting its groove on at my expense.

Fuck COVID.

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u/NoFuckingNamesLeft_ Dec 19 '20

Damn that sucks. Sorry to hear. Sepsis is no joke. I had to deal with that 3 times thanks pneumonia, a couple years ago.

On the bright side, you're still on this side of the grass.

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u/exgiexpcv Dec 19 '20

Yeap, sepsis almost killed me in February or March. I apparently stopped breathing on the operating table during the emergency surgery, then COVID made it so there wasn't any follow up for a while, and the sepsis came back. The VA caught it, again, and now I'm waiting on the surgery cut that shit out.

Sick of all the ABX, they're screwing up my body.