Sequester

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

List the things your life is now missing as a result of the sequester.

[Rage Against the McKee]

[0.42]

Higher ed research funding is going to be severely mumped by this. That indirectly impacts me. Otherwise, nothing.

[wetwillie]

Guys is the NBAF going to get cut off? Talk to me bros.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I suppose I'll miss being told about all the things I'm going to miss by our fear mongering propagandist in chief.  That was at least good comedy, in that it was so pathetic.

[Emo EMAW]

Higher ed research funding is going to be severely mumped by this. That indirectly impacts me. Otherwise, nothing.

Aren't the cuts across the board?  As in everyone is equally mumped?

[8manpick]

List the things your life is now missing as a result of the sequester.

nm

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

If this had been anybody's idea other than Obama, it would be the worst idea ever.

[Rage Against the McKee]

If this had been anybody's idea other than Obama, it would be the worst idea ever.

It's a pretty horrible way to operate, really.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I suppose I'll miss being told about all the things I'm going to miss by our fear mongering propagandist in chief.  That was at least good comedy, in that it was so pathetic.

I've decided I don't actually miss this, so I'm back to nothing.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

If this had been anybody's idea other than Obama, it would be the worst idea ever.

It's a pretty horrible way to operate, really.

True, and I can't come up with any reason for Obama to turn down the senates offer to let him choose how the cuts would be made, other than he doesn't want any more ties to it. Maybe he still plans to blame congress for it during the 2014 elections?

[Rage Against the McKee]

Oh, Congress deserves their share of the blame, as well.

[Dr Rick Daris]

furloughs aren't scheduled to set in for another six weeks. there are a lot of dod employees that live in mhk and most are about ready to get paid 20 percent less than they currently make. that's potentially a pretty big deal to mhk whether some of you idiots realize it or not.

[felix rex]

In terms of my neck of the woods, this is not all bad. It is REALLY hard to cut dead weight around here. Gimme five years and lets reassess.

[Cartierfor3]

furloughs aren't scheduled to set in for another six weeks. there are a lot of dod employees that live in mhk and most are about ready to get paid 20 percent less than they currently make. that's potentially a pretty big deal to mhk whether some of you idiots realize it or not.

The private sector has been dealing with pay cuts since 2007. Its unfortunate.

[Dr Rick Daris]

furloughs aren't scheduled to set in for another six weeks. there are a lot of dod employees that live in mhk and most are about ready to get paid 20 percent less than they currently make. that's potentially a pretty big deal to mhk whether some of you idiots realize it or not.

The private sector has been dealing with pay cuts since 2007. Its unfortunate.

yes and if there was a private employer ten miles away from mhk that employed several hundred mhkers and it was about ready to start paying them all twenty percent less and stop hiring more of them as well as start releasing some of the ones that currently worked there then i would say that it would affect me because i live in mhk. not real hard to do the math on this one genius.

[Emo EMAW]

Government employees are for the most part pretty worthless and inefficient.  So consider me all pfffffft.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Government employees are for the most part pretty worthless and inefficient.  So consider me all pfffffft.

The same is true of private sector employees.

[Rage Against the McKee]

In terms of my neck of the woods, this is not all bad. It is REALLY hard to cut dead weight around here. Gimme five years and lets reassess.

Are you going to be allowed to cut the dead weight, or will you just have to pay everybody less money, effectively pushing your good employees to find better jobs?

[bubbles4ksu]

my aunt is going to lose her job. it is some sort of after school education program that is funded by nasa and the dod.

[puniraptor]

In terms of my neck of the woods, this is not all bad. It is REALLY hard to cut dead weight around here. Gimme five years and lets reassess.

Are you going to be allowed to cut the dead weight, or will you just have to pay everybody less money, effectively pushing your good employees to find better jobs?

The latter. The shitty people can't get another job and don't want to leave anyway. The good people don't like working with shitty people and don't like 20% pay cuts.

[felix rex]

In terms of my neck of the woods, this is not all bad. It is REALLY hard to cut dead weight around here. Gimme five years and lets reassess.

Are you going to be allowed to cut the dead weight, or will you just have to pay everybody less money, effectively pushing your good employees to find better jobs?

The latter. The shitty people can't get another job and don't want to leave anyway. The good people don't like working with shitty people and don't like 20% pay cuts.

Answer your own rough ridin' questions. I'm cutting dead weight and eff anyone who wants to object. Maybe I'll regret it, but you gotta make hay when the sun shines, right?

[Rage Against the McKee]

In terms of my neck of the woods, this is not all bad. It is REALLY hard to cut dead weight around here. Gimme five years and lets reassess.

Are you going to be allowed to cut the dead weight, or will you just have to pay everybody less money, effectively pushing your good employees to find better jobs?

The latter. The shitty people can't get another job and don't want to leave anyway. The good people don't like working with shitty people and don't like 20% pay cuts.

Answer your own rough ridin' questions. I'm cutting dead weight and eff anyone who wants to object. Maybe I'll regret it, but you gotta make hay when the sun shines, right?

That's good to hear. Are the people who are going the 20% cut route only doing that because they don't want to lay anybody off? Are some agencies allowed to turn cuts into layoffs while others are not? I don't completely understand how this works, so it's always good to hear from somebody who does.

[Emo EMAW]

Government employees are for the most part pretty worthless and inefficient.  So consider me all pfffffft.

The same is true of private sector employees.

Not in comparison, it's not. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

Government employees are for the most part pretty worthless and inefficient.  So consider me all pfffffft.

The same is true of private sector employees.

Not in comparison, it's not.

In my experience, it pretty much is.