• Mulligrubs
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    How many other jobs in USA allow you to take 3 months off, then, after your return, you can “participate” as you wish, doing a third of the work (at most)?

    The answer is ZERO. What a wonderful world for our “public servants” with greater benefits than the entire US work force.

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      Exactly what should be expected when you trust elites to hold each other accountable.

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        The shitheads of Kentucky allowed this for forty goddamned years. The last one was six years ago. Four years after he sold us out to Moscow and shat on the SCOTUS, among other unforgivables.

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      Just elected public servants, mind you. I’m a federal civil servant, and I’d be shitcanned if I tried to pull this shit.

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      Purely playing devil’s advocate.

      It’s down to those above in management to deal with this, up to and including firing them. Unfortunately, for an elected official, that boss is technically the voters. Until an election comes up, it’s difficult to do anything about it.

      In a functional system, there would be procedures in place for situations like this. America apparently doesn’t have any, on the books, and the social based ones have long been discarded.

      It’s also worth noting the pressure should be the other way. We should all have more flexibility and safety, not taking it away from someone, no matter how much of an arsehole they are, as a person.

      E.g. at a previous company I worked for, one of the guys got cancer. He intended to work as much as he could, and take unpaid leave when he couldn’t. The CEO (previously the CFO) put him in his place. He was expected to take as much time as he needed to fight it. He was welcome to come in and work, but it wasn’t expected. He was also kept on full pay. Unfortunately, the cancer won. Even then, they gave his widow 6 months of his pay, so she didn’t have to panic about finances. This is the behaviour we should be expecting to anyone, not just the elite, or the lucky.

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    They wheel him in and out of Congress from a closet like he’s grandma’s fine china.

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    Is there any other job that you literally get paid to do nothing? I got into the wrong line of work.

    If I miss a single day of reports I’m getting my ass chewed out and can easily be removed and replaced.

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    They probably forgot him somewhere, just have to track back where they were and they’ll eventually find him.

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      This is what happens if you mix Mr Magoo, Weekend at Bernies, and… Nazis.

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    back to his soul chamber, where his phylactery needs to be refill with youth souls again, and his necromancer has to repair is dying body.

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      I did see an article that he returned to the floor and was having comprehension issues, but I don’t feel like looking for it. Fuck Mitch McConnell.

      He’s been looking like a gross corpse for years now, always falling and losing pieces of skin, acting ghoulish and treasonous, so who knows what weird shit C Montgomery Worm has going on.