Hard times a comin' for gubmint workers

[YoUDeeMan]

Around the government worker's water cooler after the cuts:

Fred: Anybody seen George lately?

Taquisha, Joe, Bernadette, Omar, and Gonzalez: No.

Rosie: He's probably on vacation again.

Janet (new to the government): Who's doing his work while he's gone?

Everyone: What?

Janet: Who is covering for him while he's gone?

Fred: No need to cover anyone...we're government workers. If someone wants to take the day off, or go to sleep in the back office for a few hours, nobody says anything. After all, we all get the same raises anyway no matter what, so we cut each other some slack.

Janet: Yeah, but what about the work? How does it get done?

Everyone: What?

Janet: I'm confused.

Gonzalez: You're confusing us.

Taquisha: Hey, where's Cassandra? Haven't seen here around here lately.

Joe: And Lamar...where has he been?

Fred: You know, I've noticed that quite a few people have been missing from our lunch area and water cooler talks lately. Wonder where they went?

Bernadette: Maybe they went over to the building closer to Washington. I heard they had great parties over there. I would have applied for that area too, but I am not motivated enough to find the paperwork. Besides, I like it here...they have a good coffee shop downstairs.

Joe: Hey Bernadette, I'm going to leave two hours early so that I can get to the store by my house in Virginia to buy that new coach I looked at yesterday while on my coffee break. Can you let Frank know if he comes by?

Bernadette: Sure, but I haven't seen Frank since he installed those new blinds in his office window. That was a bummer because I like watching those Seinfeld reruns without the sound. I know all the words anyway.

Janet: Well, my break is over. I better get back to work.

Everyone: What?

[CID1990]

Around the government worker's water cooler after the cuts:

Fred: Anybody seen George lately?

Taquisha, Joe, Bernadette, Omar, and Gonzalez: No.

Rosie: He's probably on vacation again.

Janet (new to the government): Who's doing his work while he's gone?

Everyone: What?

Janet: Who is covering for him while he's gone?

Fred: No need to cover anyone...we're government workers. If someone wants to take the day off, or go to sleep in the back office for a few hours, nobody says anything. After all, we all get the same raises anyway no matter what, so we cut each other some slack.

Janet: Yeah, but what about the work? How does it get done?

Everyone: What?

Janet: I'm confused.

Gonzalez: You're confusing us.

Taquisha: Hey, where's Cassandra? Haven't seen here around here lately.

Joe: And Lamar...where has he been?

Fred: You know, I've noticed that quite a few people have been missing from our lunch area and water cooler talks lately. Wonder where they went?

Bernadette: Maybe they went over to the building closer to Washington. I heard they had great parties over there. I would have applied for that area too, but I am not motivated enough to find the paperwork. Besides, I like it here...they have a good coffee shop downstairs.

Joe: Hey Bernadette, I'm going to leave two hours early so that I can get to the store by my house in Virginia to buy that new coach I looked at yesterday while on my coffee break. Can you let Frank know if he comes by?

Bernadette: Sure, but I haven't seen Frank since he installed those new blinds in his office window. That was a bummer because I like watching those Seinfeld reruns without the sound. I know all the words anyway.

Janet: Well, my break is over. I better get back to work.

Everyone: What?

That's pretty much it. The litmus test should be if you can take 3 weeks vacation and nobody has to cover your duties, then you are redundant.

[93henfan]

We have a "dark complected" lady at work who claimed that the air was moldy. They did a study that found that the air is fine. She continued to maintain that the air bothers her. Her supervisor allows her to telework 100%. Nice scam.

[HI54UNI]

We have a "dark complected" lady at work who claimed that the air was moldy. They did a study that found that the air is fine. She continued to maintain that the air bothers her. Her supervisor allows her to telework 100%. Nice scam.

We had one claiming the air was bad. Long story short he no longer works for us.

[93henfan]

We have a "dark complected" lady at work who claimed that the air was moldy. They did a study that found that the air is fine. She continued to maintain that the air bothers her. Her supervisor allows her to telework 100%. Nice scam.

We had one claiming the air was bad. Long story short he no longer works for us.

I see you are in the private sector. You probably have to meet goals and shit too, huh?

[HI54UNI]

We had one claiming the air was bad. Long story short he no longer works for us.

I see you are in the private sector. You probably have to meet goals and shit too, huh?

Actually this was a govt job - a teacher.

[BDKJMU]

We have a "dark complected" lady at work who claimed that the air was moldy. They did a study that found that the air is fine. She continued to maintain that the air bothers her. Her supervisor allows her to telework 100%. Nice scam.

Sounds like precedent has been set for anyone to do this who wants to...

[CID1990]

We have a "dark complected" lady at work who claimed that the air was moldy. They did a study that found that the air is fine. She continued to maintain that the air bothers her. Her supervisor allows her to telework 100%. Nice scam.

I've seen several "bad air" complaints over the last few years.

It is pretty much the go-to complaint since it is difficult to prove otherwise and nobody wants to fight the battle.

Isn't it funny though- most of the people making the bad air complaints as a reason for absenteeism and reasonable accommodation requests are usually the biggest gold bricks in the office?

[93henfan]

We have a "dark complected" lady at work who claimed that the air was moldy. They did a study that found that the air is fine. She continued to maintain that the air bothers her. Her supervisor allows her to telework 100%. Nice scam.

I've seen several "bad air" complaints over the last few years.

It is pretty much the go-to complaint since it is difficult to prove otherwise and nobody wants to fight the battle.

Isn't it funny though- most of the people making the bad air complaints as a reason for absenteeism and reasonable accommodation requests are usually the biggest gold bricks in the office?

No doubt about it.

[CAA Flagship]

Around the government worker's water cooler after the cuts:

Fred: Anybody seen George lately?

Taquisha, Joe, Bernadette, Omar, and Gonzalez: No.

Rosie: He's probably on vacation again.

Janet (new to the government): Who's doing his work while he's gone?

Everyone: What?

Janet: Who is covering for him while he's gone?

Fred: No need to cover anyone...we're government workers. If someone wants to take the day off, or go to sleep in the back office for a few hours, nobody says anything. After all, we all get the same raises anyway no matter what, so we cut each other some slack.

Janet: Yeah, but what about the work? How does it get done?

Everyone: What?

Janet: I'm confused.

Gonzalez: You're confusing us.

Taquisha: Hey, where's Cassandra? Haven't seen here around here lately.

Joe: And Lamar...where has he been?

Fred: You know, I've noticed that quite a few people have been missing from our lunch area and water cooler talks lately. Wonder where they went?

Bernadette: Maybe they went over to the building closer to Washington. I heard they had great parties over there. I would have applied for that area too, but I am not motivated enough to find the paperwork. Besides, I like it here...they have a good coffee shop downstairs.

Joe: Hey Bernadette, I'm going to leave two hours early so that I can get to the store by my house in Virginia to buy that new coach I looked at yesterday while on my coffee break. Can you let Frank know if he comes by?

Bernadette: Sure, but I haven't seen Frank since he installed those new blinds in his office window. That was a bummer because I like watching those Seinfeld reruns without the sound. I know all the words anyway.

Janet: Well, my break is over. I better get back to work.

Everyone: What?

Bernadette: K
Rosie: F
Janet: M

[HI54UNI]

We have a "dark complected" lady at work who claimed that the air was moldy. They did a study that found that the air is fine. She continued to maintain that the air bothers her. Her supervisor allows her to telework 100%. Nice scam.

I've seen several "bad air" complaints over the last few years.

It is pretty much the go-to complaint since it is difficult to prove otherwise and nobody wants to fight the battle.

Isn't it funny though- most of the people making the bad air complaints as a reason for absenteeism and reasonable accommodation requests are usually the biggest gold bricks in the office?

We fought ours because the bad air complaint made no sense. The guy worked in a 2 year old building with modern air handling systems. The air is changed out in the building every 6 hours. The air quality tests showed nothing wrong. We moved him to a 50 year old building that the tests showed shitty air quality and he claimed he got better.

He was actually a pretty good teacher before he went nuts.