• @turmacar
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    159 hours ago

    They should, but government positions are to a PayScale. You get hired “as” a GS-9 or whatever. You can go and lookup what the location pay adjustment is for your city if you’re curious.

    Contractors are generally paid at least double digit percentages more for the same job but can be fired/not renewed much easier. In theory.

    The tradeoff was that it’s pretty hard to fire a full time employee without cause, and the pension / student loan forgiveness / etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      it’s pretty hard to fire a full time employee without cause

      It doesn’t look like Musk had much trouble.

      • @turmacar
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        Your reading comprehension is so low that you can’t parse a whole sentence?

        No wonder Trump won the election.

        There’s a reason they’re calling these “resignations”.

        It’s unlikely to hold up in court, but that doesn’t matter much to people who aren’t being paid while the legal ramifications are being worked out.

        • @Cocodapuf
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          44 hours ago

          What the fuck dude?

          Someone made a joking comment and you just straight up insult them?

          You don’t have to be an asshole, you could have left out those first two sentences and made the exact same point.

          Now that I’ve said that, watch carefully as I move on without making any disparaging comments about your intelligence, because I’m not going to just piss random people off for no reason…

          • @turmacar
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            If I say “It’s a shame that conservative policies are being implemented as promised” and someone quotes that as

            conservative policies are being implemented as promised

            That’s not a joke. That’s mockery from the people glad it’s happening.

            We’re past Poe’s law.

            • @Cocodapuf
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              Ok, but none of that is what you said. So this is nonsense.

    • @Jumpingspiderman
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      You can negotiate your step in your range. And a lot of positions are 13/14 etc. I negotiated 3 steps up from GS 14 base when I started as a GS 14.

    • @mkwt
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      29 hours ago

      There are also a bunch of contracting arrangements where the workers are W-2 employees of a private company that has a contract with the gov to provide bulk professional services from said employees.

      Those workers have some room to negotiate salaries and benefits like any private sector worker. Although the terms of the big contract can put some limits on what the private company can offer.

      A lot of national labs and NASA stuff works like this.