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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I’m a federal employee and have been for 25 years.

    Some years back my parents were visiting from Florida and asked to borrow a car (I had two), and I said sure. Then, later, I said something about how busy work had been, and my father starts laughing at how funny that is - and calls my older brother - so they can share a laugh about me “working hard”. Both lifelong Republicans, I will note.

    I was like, hey, did you want to borrow the car that my hard work paid for, or not?

    When I called them out on it, they said I was absolutely correct and apologized.










  • We pay many bills via credit cards, which we then pay in full every month. The credit cards offer something like 2% cash back that can be applied to pay down the balance of the card at some point in the future.

    It’s not much, but it’s essentially giving us a 2% break on the bill. Of course if you carry a balance, the interest will far outweigh any gain. So you have to be disciplined and careful. The cards we have do not have an annual fee, either.

    The card company still does it even without charging us interest because they make money on the transaction - they charge the vendor a fee.




  • This is affecting our work - our Share point was down for two days while they looked through it for any mention of dei, delaying plenty of work that had nothing to do with dei.

    But even putting that aside, now we have many (thousands?) government employees on admin leave, which means they’re getting paid to do nothing. And likely will be for months.

    And this delayed resignation thing, if they uphold their end of the deal, will cost even more. Especially since many of the takers seem to be people who were going to retire anyway, or “super commuters” that don’t live near the office, both of whom were likely on their way out anyway.

    That’s a lot of money they are spending for no return at all.