Some are pondering ways to cheat, losing their will to stay away and risking a $5,000 fine and a trip to federal prison as the shutdown stretched into its second week. Temptations are everywhere, especially through personal technology. Contractors are e-mailing government workers on their personal e-mail accounts. Web browser bookmarks on home computers offer quick paths to government intranets.
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To the people who think that gubmint employees are lazy and don't do anything (and I know that is nobody who belongs to this page!) here is what it is like for Feds who cannot work during a shutdown. We (I used to be one) take great pride in our work and know we are accomplishing good things for the nation. That's why we do what we do, that's why many of us take less salary to work for the government than we could command in the private sector (I probably could have doubled mine). We love our jobs and we love that we do them for our fellow citizens -- for the good of the nation. And it is exquisitely painful to not be able to do our jobs when we know we are needed. Even though I am retired, I have a knot in my stomach thinking of the knots in the stomachs of my former co-workers, knowing the work is piling up and people need answers ... and we're not there to give them. After the last shutdown in 95-96, my then-office's voicemail boxes -- all of them -- were full. We had 3,000 emails to answer. It took us until April to clear them.The siren call of the BlackBerry for furloughed federal workers
By Michael S. Rosenwald,
Wednesday, October 9
In Shutdown City, the BlackBerry is the forbidden fruit.
Bonnie Tuma stares longingly at her government-issued smartphone with scary frequency. “I’m facing it in the charger,” said Tuma, a furloughed human resources manager at the National Institutes of Health. “I have to pull myself away. It’s not easy. I have to stop myself."
The silenced, non-vibrating, non-lit BlackBerrys and iPhones have become, for many government workers, a symbol of the work they yearn to do but can’t.
One federal IT worker misses his servers badly but knows logging in remotely will leave a digital footprint and could get him in trouble. His coping mechanism: manage personal servers for his home — a form of faux work.
“I’ve always said I’d do my job for free, so that’s what I’m doing,” said the IT worker, who works for the International Trade Commission and requested that his name be withheld. “I’m just not doing it for the nation.”
The want-to-work-but-can’t agony is illustrative, experts say, of the continued melding of personal and professional lives that has taken place inside and outside the government since the last shutdown 17 years ago. It is a particularly bitter pill for government workers, who research shows typically pursue the work for intrinsic rewards rather than great wealth or status.
Their belief in their essentialness is hard-wired. But now their bosses have told them the unthinkable: Power down your smartphones. And don’t you dare work.
“In the 21st century, people see their careers as a story about their working lives, and this shutdown has caused an unexpected rupture in who they are,” said Mark Savickas, who studies vocational behavior at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. “It’s bringing a discontinuity to their lives and causing them to wonder why work suddenly doesn’t love them back.”
Government work is supposed to be stable. It’s the private sector that’s uncertain. Or that’s how it is supposed to go. For many, that’s a hard hit to take, and actual sadness didn’t take long to develop as the crisis unfolded. First couple days of the shutdown: Hang out with family, meet people for lunch. Fun. Different. Relaxing. Then: Emptiness.
“I’m going to start going crazy soon and wishing I had brought work home,” said a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee who is pondering cheating. “I think my work is important. I think I’m important in what I do.”
She will most likely use Web sites that her boss can’t track to do research for a paper, even though she would be in violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act, which prohibits government workers from volunteering their services or working for free during a shutdown. She knows of others who plan to work, too. One CDC colleague told her that the situation was making her feel “unprideful.”
Federal government employees are, shutdowns aside, a prideful bunch. A 2012 survey by the Office of Personnel Management of more than 687,000 workers found that “nearly all Federal employees report that their work is important” and that eight in 10 like what they do. About 70 percent of the workers reported that their jobs provide non-monetary rewards, including a feeling of personal accomplishment.
Roughly half of those studied — and a dominant demographic within the federal workforce — were baby boomers . Work matters to boomers. A 2010 study in the Journal of Management found that only 23 percent of boomers thought “work is just making a living.” Three-fourths of them said they “expected work to be a central part of their lives.”
Beth Beck is 57, a boomer who has worked in government for 28 years. She’s an innovations manager for NASA, working on data technology and digital strategy. Her government-issued iPhone is turned off, and she doesn’t have a personal device. She answered her land-line phone the other day for an interview by saying, “My land line actually works — it’s amazing.”
Not working is not amazing.
“It’s been hard to turn that side of my brain off,” said Beck, who lives in Alexandria. “I don’t miss the bureaucracy. I don’t miss the paperwork. I don’t miss a lot of how we do things in government. But I do miss the job, the creativity, the problem solving. It’s an important part of who I am.”
Contractors have e-mailed her on her personal account about ongoing projects, but though the temptation is there, right in front of her, just a few keyboard clicks away, she knows the work is out of bounds. She’s just making mental notes of things until she can power up her iPhone again and work/tweet/e-mail without breaking the law.
“This is really the digital divide,” she said.
Technology has been the magnet drawing work and life closer together, especially in the federal government, which doesn’t actually produce physical products. The technology in many ways is the work. The BlackBerry was just coming onto the market during the last shutdown, but it eventually became a tool — and a status symbol — for the increasing and inescapable connection to work.
“Really what we’re doing is moving and shaping information,” said Roger Hill, a professor at the University of Georgia who studies work ethic. “So there’s a closer association between technology and the work itself. Technology is what has brought this potential to work to a 24/7 state in our lives.”
When it goes away, so does the work — and the sense of fulfillment.
“Before the furlough, I was thinking that it wouldn’t be so bad — nobody ever misses work that much, right?” said a lawyer for a federal law enforcement agency who is not allowed to give his name. Then, on the first day of the shutdown, he went into work, turned off his BlackBerry and set up out-of-office messages for his e-mail.
“It was a little bit sad and strange to wake up and not have it anymore, the structure of work,” he said. “Work is part of your routine. It’s what you do. You just feel better about yourself. You can look back at the end of the day and know you accomplished something.”
Until you can’t.
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/09/debt-ceiling-hostage-boehner-obama/
A little bit about Boehner:Shutdown and debt ceiling hostage crisis have hurt Boehner’s credibility.
Boehner himself has lost credibility in recent days, mostly due to his statements regarding holding the debt ceiling hostage, and the shutdown. He made a deal with Senate Democrats on a clean continuing resolution way back on July, and then reneged on that deal, which included $70 billion in spending cuts that the Democrats didn’t want, but were willing to give. Then Boehner essentially said, “Nope. It’s not good enough, sorry.” There have been other contradictions and out-and-out-lies as well.
For Boehner and the Tea Party, it is all or nothing, and the debt ceiling is their only real leverage. So they will continue to hold the debt ceiling hostage, hold the economy hostage, and refuse to compromise.
This is what happens when you allow a minority with extreme views to take over your party. You lose your ability to compromise, and you lose your ability to govern. This isn’t governing. Holding the debt ceiling hostage does nothing to bring spending under control, therefore it’s a bad strategy. This is politics at its worst. Obama has said he’s willing to negotiate on anything at all once the debt ceiling is raised and the shutdown ends. The Republicans would rather continue to hurt people…just to make their point.
I think a whole lot of this party along with Boehner, are in the hand basket right now.
Jackie
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RL - tomorrow I have lunch with my group of 6 women Feds. The third of our group of six retired last Friday, so it's her day of honor (I was the first of the six). Three are left. The one who just retired couldn't even come to work her last week of service. What a way to end a 30+ year career, hey? I will ask the other three how they feel. I know one of them, and other coworkers I've spoken with, are not allowed to use their work Iphones and they had to sign something saying they wouldn't work or use a government computer. The temptation is high when you know things need to be done.
Oh re your post above, when I mentioned those "19 times" Senate Democrats tried to conference with the House on the budget to my Tehadist Congressman's aide, I was told "that's just a Democratic talking point." << That sounds like a talking point to me! The idiot didn't even realize his own health insurance (as a federal employee) has a $5000 out-of-pocket element when he tried to say how lousy the exchange plans are because of a $5000 out of pocket feature.
Ms Boo kitty sleeping on the couch. I guess I'm just going to have to watch her and hope for the best. -
Democratic talking points = fact
Republican talking points = fiction
Glad we got that cleared up!
Kam - give Ms Boo lots of comforting pats -- and extra ones from all of us here. -
Kam, we all know that the Tealiban lies like they breathe. You know they're lying when their mouths are moving. Your little Teahadist Toto doesn't even know what the truth is because they don't actually recognize that there is an empirical truth. They think the truth is whatever they want it to be.
I'm not surprised that Teahadist Toto doesn't know what his catastrophic protection is, or even the difference between deductible and catastrophic. Here is how good BCBS Fed is - the year I was dx the first time, with 2 surgeries, multiple followups, MRIs, 36 rads treatments, genetic testing ... I didn't reach my $5k catastrophic limit. What is even more fantastic to believe is the second time I was dx I had mammo, stereo bx, MRI, surgical consults, a BMX & immediate DIEP, physical therapy, multiple imaging studies, etc, etc -- and STILL didn't hit my catastrophic $5k limit (I was $200 away). My hospital bill alone - including the OR for a 20 (twenty)-hour surgery, a day in the ICU, and 4 more days in the hospital - was $95,000. I laughed when I saw the EOB because it was such an absurd amount. My portion was $250.
And that little Teahadist Toto thinks, no doubt, that he is entitled to his health insurance because he is special - he works for a Congresscritter. And he no doubt thinks that other people don't "deserve" health insurance as good as his. Ugh. Throw the bastards out.
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sending positive thoughts for the fur babies! -
E - sending you hugs from across the seas - hope you are feeling a bit better and riding that gorgeous horse of yours.
Hugs also to the sick fur babies
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Thanks for the good wishes everybody! My furbaby is doing well today. Her eye problem seems to be getting better, which according to the vet, would mean it is probably not caused by a tumor, YAY!
So, it looks like the lunatics may be about to fold, but only for a short time. AAAARGH! What the ^%&$#@ is the matter with those fools. Rhetorical question I know. Anyway, they apparently want to go through all this again, in six to eight weeks. Really Republics? Not enough pain for you? Maybe we should call this the Masochistic Party. -
Wouldn't it be great if we could all be as ignorantly blissful as the Regressive masochists. Though I have them blocked......I know I would find reading some other threads a magnificent DOUBLE bore. Mainly the inability and total lack of desire to face cold hard facts. That is what makes them who and what they are. It is a pity because they too are destructive to what is fair, what is right and definitely what is honorable.
On to work......thank God though severely reduced....I still can do that.
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Morning Gals,
Off to a slow start this morning. I had night terrors again last night. Woke up screaming and scared my poor dogs! I hate having night terrors ... I started getting them about 12 years ago when I left San Diego due to a divorce. I don't know what causes them or why they won't go away. It's a horrible feeling to be in a deep sleep and so terrified you can't wake up. Sometimes I wake up screaming for my son ... and he's been out of the house for 15 years!
Yorkie ... good news on your fur baby! My Maggie is a border collie and she's about 14 years-old now. She's still pretty active, but her eyes are clouding up and sometimes she has bowel accidents.
Enjoyful ... hoping today is a better day for you.
Kam ... how is your kitty today?
Libby ... you had really good medical insurance. Wow! Tim has BCBS through his company and it's not near as good as the coverage you had. I guess it all depends on what your company can negotiate for rates with the insurance company. Those Republican fools in the government don't know good they have it. Except for maybe Boehner. I'm sure he's quite aware of what a great thing he's got going.
Chaplain ... hope to see you this Saturday when my flight takes me through Chicago. I have a 2 hour layover. Miss you dear friend.
Jackie ... hope you have a good day at work.
It's cold today. Should top out at about 60 degrees. I hate winter.
hugs,
Bren -
Next door, someone posted (without any comment about irony): "Any media outlet which changes how it reports the news in order to curry favor with any politician is no longer a news outlet, but rather an entertainment outlet, and any politician who criticizes a news outlet for reporting the news is not looking to govern the country, but is looking for fame and should get out of Washington and into Hollywood."
I am appalled that the mods here continue to delete quite respectful comments on the premise that the "wrong side" is speaking. That is precisely the source of much of the current political troubles wherein one fringe group (who mistakenly think they are a majority) justify their position because it is all they hear within a carefully controlled bubble of misinformation.
It reminds me (from a few decades of teaching high school) of teenagers who explain poor behaviour (or a piercing in the tongue, or wearing pyjamas to school) on the premise that "everyone does that". Some of them don't have the imagination, observation skills or critical thinking powers to see that what is in their immediate world is not really the whole story. Our job as teachers was to widen their horizons. Pity that isn't allowed on this forum. -
Yorkie - that is good news about your baby. I would remiss if I didn't add my appreciation for all the love for our babies here. Mine is still guarded. Not eating or drinking this morning, but the day is young. Maybe she's just trying to let the pancreas rest? I live in a small town, so not sure I'm always getting the best Vet advice, but I have a young one fresh out of a good school, so hopeful. I will take her back tomorrow, for atleast fluids, if things stay like this. I've been trying to read up on pancreatitis and it seems like she is treating it as a mild case (i.e. not much more than fluids), but dang it is hard to watch your cat sleep all day and not eat, not eat much of anything.
So Boehner is giving in? Looking to save face? Haven't heard much more than Obama setting the scene yesterday and a meeting with ALL Dems and a second meeting with the least unruly Republicans. -
This is what the people who want to repeal the Affordable Care Act want to eliminate. They WANT this family to go bankrupt. They WANT this kid to die. It is becoming more and more clear to me, watching the rhetoric and seeing them take this country (and the rest of the world) to the brink of financial disaster.
The Washington Post
October 9, 2013
Obamacare saved my family from financial ruin
By Janine Urbaniak Reid
House Speaker John Boehner and his tea party friends shut down the U.S. government because of people like me. I am the mother of an insurance hog, someone who could have blown through his lifetime limit of health coverage by the time he was 14. My son has managed to survive despite seemingly insurmountable challenges, and he wears his preexisting condition like a Super Bowl ring.
Mason, now 16, was probably born with his brain tumor. We discovered it six years ago. Biopsies showed a slow-growing mass, which was the good news. The bad news was that the tumor could not be removed because it had grown around essential structures in his brain. Under the care of some of the country’s finest specialists, Mason had frequent scans. There was little we could do between tests but hope for the best. Like other children his age, Mason played basketball, argued with his siblings and avoided cleaning his bedroom. He managed to undergo chemotherapy for eight months without getting too sick. He insisted on finding ways to laugh, saying things like: “I have brain cancer. What’s your problem?” It was an uneasy peace — until the tumor ruptured in December 2010, three years after his initial diagnosis, and Mason suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
Mason spent most of eighth grade in the hospital. In the six months he was hospitalized, he spent 65 days in the pediatric intensive care unit. He underwent four brain surgeries. Halfway through his hospitalization, the Affordable Care Act was passed, alleviating lifetime limits on coverage and saving us from the financial abyss. Mason moved to a rehabilitation hospital where he was retaught the most basic skills — sitting up, eating and standing. We faithfully paid the premiums on the employer-sponsored plan through which our family is covered, along with the rest of our bills, thanking God and whoever else would listen for our good fortune to have coverage.
The biggest fear for families such as mine is that we will lose our health insurance and be rendered uninsurable because one of us has been sick. The Affordable Care Act does away with dreaded clauses barring preexisting conditions. It also enables us to keep Mason on our insurance until he is 26; then, he will be able to purchase his own coverage on an insurance exchange. At least, that was the plan until last Tuesday, when the government was shut down in protest of such excesses.
As far as the brain tumor goes, our family might have drawn the short straw. Maybe our story lacks a certain universal appeal. People might thinking to themselves, “I’m so sorry that happened to you, but odds are it won’t happen to me.” I hope it doesn’t, really
But having lived in hospitals with Mason for months, I have seen that bad things — accidents, freak illnesses — happen to smart, cautious and otherwise undeserving people. It’s one thing we all have in common. We are fragile beings. So what is wrong with allowing us to purchase a financial safety net? What’s so un-American about that?
If I could get John Boehner and Ted Cruz on a conference call, I would explain this to them. I would tell them that, while they were busy trying to derail the Affordable Care Act over the past two years, Mason has again learned to walk, talk, eat and shoot a three-point basket.
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And do you think that Boner and Carnival would give a rat's ass about this kid? They are more likely to say, like other people we know, "Let them go to the emergency room. They should have planned better. They should hold fundraisers for their kid's medical expenses. Nobody ever told them to have a kid anyway -- why should WE pay for their mistake in having a kid with a brain tumor?" We've seen that language before. We have seen the heartlessness before, right in front of us. I'm going to stop asking what kind of people they are -- we KNOW what kind of people they are. -
And still another disgusting trick from a heartless, hateful regressive:
Indiana Sues To Prevent Its Own Residents From Receiving Obamacare’s Insurance Subsidies
By Sy Mukherjeeon October 10, 2013 at 8:59 am
This week, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) challenging its authority to fund Obamacare’s insurance subsidies for individuals and enacting penalties against public employers (such as state and local governments) that don’t meet the health law’s minimum worker coverage requirement. If successful, the challenge would prevent Americans from receiving the government assistance that makes Obamacare’s insurance marketplace plans affordable in the first place.
Zoeller claims that the health law doesn’t permit people living in the 36 states that have refused to set up their own Obamacare marketplaces — including Indiana — to qualify for federal insurance subsidies. He also says that local government employers which don’t meet Obamacare’s requirements cannot be penalized under the law to help fund those subsidies.
The argument is based on a technical ambiguity in the law that state-level GOP officials and congressional Republicans have previously seized on in an attempt to undermine the ACA’s consumer assistance. The IRS has issued regulations saying that the law permits and intends the agency to extend subsidies to Americans in all 50 states.
“The fact that many citizens lack health insurance is an issue for policymakers, and my office takes no position regarding the congressional debate over funding the ACA. I never complain when private plaintiffs file lawsuits to challenge the state authority that my office defends; but now our role is reversed and Indiana has initiated this lawsuit asking the court whether the IRS has exceeded its federal taxing authority over state governments,” said Zoeller in a statement. “This respectful challenge is an appropriate role for the Office of the Attorney General to vigorously assert the ability of the State and its political subdivisions to manage their workforces in our American system of federalism.”
Zoeller argues that Congress would have to pass separate legislation in order for Americans to qualify for tax credits in the states that haven’t set up an Obamacare marketplace.
If the lawsuit is successful, it would amount to a massive premium hike for Americans who are required to procure insurance coverage under the health law — and could fundamentally cripple Obamacare’s goal of extending affordable health coverage to the uninsured. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that over 85 percent of individuals who sign up through the marketplaces this year will qualify for subsidies to help them afford their new plans. Those subsidies can end up reducing the top-line cost of health coverage by as much as the full premium amount, depending on an individual’s yearly income.
Oklahoma has filed a similar lawsuit against the federal government. Several GOP-led states have taken alternative tactics to undermine reform, such as refusing to implement the law’s basic consumer protections like its ban on insurers denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing medical conditions. And many red states are successfully denying coverage to poor Americans by refusing to expand Medicaid under the health law. -
UNBELIEVABLE! Why do Repubs hate people so much? Oh, I know...it all comes down to money and who their corporate sponsors are and will those corporate sponsors continue to fund their campaigns. Simply disgusting. And is this really what those folks who live in Indiana and OK and the other Repub-led states would want, if they even understood what their elected officials are doing? I truly doubt it..... -
C4C, they have bought into the "THIS IS SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE" "THIS IS GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE" bullshit spewed by the hate-filled regressives. They hate the black man in the White House so much that they would rather let people die than to have this law improve people's lives. That's what it comes down to. They are horrible people. -
Well at least one Republican governor has started thinking:
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) said Wednesday that she opposed the congressional Republican effort to defund Obamacare, saying that it would be a blow to the state's budget.
“The bottom line is we need that money in our economy to save rural hospitals and jobs in the rural areas,” Brewer said, according to the Arizona Daily Star. “It’s all about jobs and getting back federal dollars that our taxpayers have paid to the federal government, to bring them home.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/arizona-s-gop-gov-don-t-defund-obamacare-we-need-the-money
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Wow, that's amazing coming from Brewer! -
Just a supposition here re Brewer: Perhaps she will not be running again, and thus is not beholden to certain corporate interests. OTOH, perhaps she simply has good economic advisors, unlike several other a$$hole govs as in IN and OK.
And RL, how on earth have the Repubs been able to spew "government-run healthcare" with straight faces? It's still "insurance-run" which is NOT a good thing, except for the fact that there are now proscriptions on the behaviour of said insurance cos. -
Oh, C4C, they lie like they breathe! They say "government-run healthcare" and their little parakeets chirp it in unison. The regressives who are spewing know the difference - the parakeets don't. And they all hate the black man in the White House so much that they will believe anything negative. It would be hysterically funny if they didn't live among us and if they didn't do real damage to real people. -
Well Brewer was also smart enough to take the Medicaid expansion so obviously not using the same advisors as others. It's worth going to the TPM link to see the picture of Gov. Brewer and President Obama. It's a 180 from the finger waving in his face one. -
So, when the media reports that the Republic party's favorability is at its lowest point and dropping, the response from the Teahadists is to blame the media.
How typical! -
The media and Obama! BENGHAZI doncha know! -
Well, there's a whole lot of "stupid" abounding in the GOTP. I read the other day that a GOP Rep somewhere in flyover country was claiming that there are 4 branches of U.S. government, and that his party controlled one of them. Hmmm, even we Canucks know there are just 3 -- count'em -- THREE.
So, I guess if BB, the idiot in the above photo, and this guy are representative of their party you can't really expect too much "smart" coming from their supporters. -
RL, I wish you'd tell us how you REALLY feel!
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Love you, crazy woman! -
Love you back, E! -
C4C - he was probably thinking Fox News was the 4th branch.
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Hahahahaha!!! Getting himself confused with the 4th "estate"! He probably considers the House and the Senate as 2 separate branches. Don't these guys learn anything when they actually get to Washington?
And another positively asinine Rep is that idjut Broun from one of the Carolinas. He must have bartered his way through medical school, because his "stupid" belies any legitimate medical degree. -
do you guys know how amazingly intelligent and funny you are as individuals? Together, wow! Thanks for being here. Kay
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Ed again to make word plural. Oh my brain and fingers don't seem to want to work together today. I just want you to know that this forum is the most amazing source of political, fashion, social justice, music, comedy....all rolled into one, along with friendly camaraderie (can I use that word?). -
Yes, Kay - you can not only USE that word, you cam REVEL in it! I'm always happy to see you here joining in the conversation!
C4C, it is certainly astonishing and disappointing to see the clueless idiots who wander into Congress. One yahoo from Pennsylvania actually bragged about never having been to Washington, DC before he was elected! *sigh* Ignorance seems to be a virtue in baggerland.
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