re: Folks, Why Are Government Employees So Scared To Work In The Private Sector?

Auditors at my federal agency save a taxpayer $6.70 for every dollar we’re paid

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Many of which could walk into the private sector and make close to double their salaries now. But they take pride in working for the government, for much less pay, in effort to helping their country.

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Most companies won’t hire someone with government experience on their resume. It is for good reason. That is why we have government jobs. So these people can be employed. Let’s not pretend the basically unfireable job for life with no accountability and a pension with about 25 ‘holidays’ a year and all the ‘sick’ leave doesn’t play into this.

10 holidays a year, some of which all jobs have off as well.

Sick hours are earned at 4 hours per pay period.

You sounds pretty uninformed and like a drama queen.


eta: to completely disprove your point about companies hiring them away. When oil companies have cutbacks. Many come to us. When they are back to running high numbers, they openly welcome them back. Oftentimes, paying out to the fed gov retention dollars the fed gov used to retain said employee. So yeah, you’re point is dumb and wrong.

In my experience in transportation, some are able to jump and are generally hired for their government connections for companies to "win" more work through the fair/balanced bidding process


These people jump once they get their maxed out pensions (10, 20, 30, etc.) and are generally the educated people or have the go-getter mentality.

Now in regards to your assessment, I have numerous former government workers working for me and you cannot teach an old dog new tricks applies. They are all stuck in their ways and it is hard to properly manage them as they are "already retired" due to collecting a pension and the ability to just move around with their vast DOT "experience". I generally prefer to try to hire young, eager to learn people and train them the right way; however the way proposals works is years of experience and we have to hire these grumpy old government workers.


In regards to a prime example of your statement, there was a G-man who walked around bossing everyone around on a power trip who left to go to the private sector. He lasted a couple months and then went back to working for the government.

If they are in the IRS then frick them.

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let’s not paint a broad brush and state that competition only occurs in the private sector.

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OK. 99% of competition occurs in the private sector.

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Spoken like the typical no account lazy government employee living off the American tax payer. Beat it loser. Real men are talking.

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I guess you can’t read.

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Then you don’t want to live in a society.

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Society created govt. Govt did not create society.

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How about Defense? You ok doing without that?

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Someone didn't read all my posts. If you want to be an informed citizen it is very important that you read all of my posts.

Society created government. Exactly. Society built the government you cry out against. Therefore, if you do not want that government then you either need to convince a majority to agree with you and change it...or go away from the society you disagree with. Bye Felicia.