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abusive_prick t1_jebb3z7 wrote

If you roll into any bar downtown on a weekday during the day, it’s all state employees, Feds in some cases. I was one of them. Show up at 10, leave at 11:30/12, get blackout drunk and go right home without coming back to the office.

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Plant_table_couch t1_jebbiwd wrote

I just have such an overwhelming rage reading this lol. I mean good for you, don’t take it personally but seriously fuck all of the overpaid lazy state employees. Fuck every single one of them.

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[deleted] OP t1_jebmq8g wrote

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magnetmonopole t1_jec15i7 wrote

Yeah, but they risk getting fired…and they’re not paid by our taxes

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steeltoe_bk t1_jecf3ep wrote

if state employees cared at all about getting paid, they'd work in the private sector

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magnetmonopole t1_jeco9v0 wrote

Obviously…my point was that they should be punished for laziness because they’re paid with our tax dollars, not that we should pay them more lmao

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7573 t1_jec5hfl wrote

Yeah - former executive and legislative employee here... I am shocked that this comment was made, every bit of my experience was the exact opposite. I would love to know what alphabet agency (s)he worked for and if they reported it to the state auditor's office.

My bet is that it is a no, and that the majority of this never happened because every news outlet would be all over that. And guess where there is a press office? Right by the state offices at Ashburton in the state house. Those press people know every haunt in the area. Maybe they worked for MassDOT or something elsewhere, but nobody is going in for an hour of work than "getting black out drunk." The press rightfully hit the MBTA director for working out of state. We had random civic groups drop in on a Friday to see whose offices were open. There is far more attention on who is in than the private sector by far, and it is really easy to see in the press.

As for my 50-grand a year, there wasn't a time that I think I could have made far better money out in the private sector - where I ended up. And in my experience, it is worse with the abuse and waste. So overpaid? Hardly. Talent is bled out constantly because of the shit pay for us cogs that pushed things forward.

Edit: The original poster is a contributor to the conspiracy-addled subreddit #walkaway, which amongst other things peddles election fraud and other things. So believe who you want.

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abusive_prick t1_jebc6n1 wrote

Even if we wanted to do work, we couldn’t in a lot of cases, too much red tape. So even if we were in the office we weren’t doing anything. It used to be that our bosses were insistent we had to be physically present from 8-5 outside of lunch. After Covid nobody cared. I left for the private sector last year, certainly can’t get away with that stuff where I am now.

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bunk_debunk t1_jebpy8p wrote

Including the person you're responding to. C'mon, don't back down now.

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