7th day of shutdown

Welcome to the 7th day of the government shutdown. Many federal employees are still at home through no fault of their own except for the blame we all share for our voting record. There is no law passed yet that says they will get paid for that time. Some of us in the DOD are back to work but the first 4 days of October are in the same limbo as all the time other federal employees are spending at home. Those DOD employees that are back at work will have to wait see another paycheck past the partial one coming Friday. Even though we are at work we won’t get paid for any of October past the 4th until a budget or CR gets passed. We also passed the 10 day mark of total furlough days this year which means we just lost 8 hours of vacation.

If you are a federal employee at home instead of work I am sorry on one hand. On the other I urge you to take this opportunity to learn a new skill or begin or expand the process of adding to your life an additional income stream. Take the thing you love to do and get better at it. Others will pay you to do that if you are an expert. If the work you do for the federal government is truly the thing you love then I am doubly sorry that you don’t get to do that work now.

Speaking of voting record, I don’t get to vote for a senator or congressional representative who has any voting rights since I live in DC. Please call the person you were able to vote for and tell them to get to work and do one of the basic tasks of their job and pass a budget.