It pays to be a federal government worker. You get to stay home and get paid for doing
absolutely nothing. Hell, you can take
off years and collect a check. The
Washington Examiner reported the following:
The federal government has shelled out more than $700 million in
paid leave to more than 57,000 employees who were home from work for time
periods stretching from one month to three years, a Government Accountability
Office report has found.
In a 62-page report published Monday,
the GAO analyzed why so many federal employees were home and getting paid for
such long periods of time and they discovered a variety of reasons.
In many cases, employees were home awaiting the outcome of
investigations into alleged misconduct and criminal actions. Some racked up
paid leave for “physical fitness activities,” and others were away from work
seeking professional development. Employees also took paid leave for
“recuperation” from overseas work.
Hundreds of federal employees remained
at home, collecting a paycheck, for years.
The report found that during a
three-year period beginning in 2011, 263 employees remained on paid leave for
one to three years at a cost of $31 million.
In some cases, about five percent of the time, the federal
government couldn’t come up with a reason why some employees were home on paid
leave.
Overall, paid leave for federal
government workers, excluding holidays, cost billions of dollars from 2011 to
2013, the GAO report found, but comprised less than one percent of all federal
government salaries paid during that time period.
Try pulling that crap in the private sector. It must be good to be a federal government
employee.
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