Originally Posted by
USAF77
Also the current trend is to chip away at benefits and pay even to the point where pensions are at risk cause the thieves we elect cant help themselves from also thieving from Police and Fire pensions. Medical bennies are being cut and ALL bennies are being bargained away for new hires in many agencies. So it may not be as rosy a picture as you might think.
Yes, the private industry figured this out years ago, the government is just now figuring out how to whittle down people. I remember an agency saying that they plan for people to only work for them for about 3-5 years...well, yes, because you've whittled down benefits and made it less lucrative. At least in the government the agencies are forced to follow labor laws and don't have much leeway, which means I get treated decent, rather than in the aviation industry where a pilot earning 25K is considered a "professional" and therefore exempt from fair labor laws (of which the intention is to exempt professionals earning 100K or more like doctors, lawyers, etc). Interesting times we live in.