Comments on: How A Furlough Would Affect Me

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:22:36 +0000

They sent us all home for a fews in 1995, and then congress voted to retroactively pay us for the time off. So essentially, we all got a paid vacation.

By: MattW

MattW — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:55:15 +0000

What happened in your area during the last government shutdown when Clinton was in office?

By: Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:23:42 +0000

Yup, I thought the same thing when reading multiple “news” outlets basically saying the same thing. You already know I’m at NASA but the majority of workers at all NASA centers are contractors, like myself. We have (had) a caveat in our particular company’s contract that if there were ever a furlough – we’d still be paid.

Over the past few months NASA legal has gone after the contract like gangbusters so that we don’t get paid and of course they won. There was a loophole – our company was bought out by a British (empire) back in 2009 and somehow it negated the certain items in the contract, including the furlough crap.

But then again…thanks to Obama my research funding was zeroed out and I’m jobless now. I’ll shut up now before I go off on that rant… LOL!!! :)

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:11:44 +0000

I’m ok with a little break (a week maybe), as long as they choose to pay me for it later. All in all though, for the contractors sake, I’m hoping for no shutdown, as they mostly will just be out of luck as far as getting paid.

By: Tim Musselman

Tim Musselman — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:52:23 +0000

I might have to tighten up a bit as well. Although the patent office is largely fee funded (i.e. our money comes from patent applicants), we might be out with most others on Monday. Personally I’ll be fine, unless it drags on forever…

By: Zeno

Zeno — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:13:26 +0000

So far I’ve only received some mail indicating how this would affect certain tasks, but nothing on whether or not we’d all be furlough. Maybe I’ll get some word on that today…

By: shadow

shadow — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:59:11 +0000

If you need someplace to stay I have a pop-up camper in my backyard.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:08:04 +0000

Rob,

I feel ya man. I also am in the IT contracting business for the government. They haven’t decided what to do with us yet, except, that we may not be working for awhile. I don’t usually comment much on politics, yeah, I have my views, but I think we can all agree that we are not sending our brightest and best to Washington.