its the same thing for government employeesWhat an amazing piece of clueless stupidity on your part.
raise taxes to keep the benefits, health insurance, retirement, sick leave days, holidays, vacations, training days, conventions and morale trips, and great salaries coming Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought
What an amazing piece of clueless stupidity on your part.
The news tonight just talked about the CEO of Viacom having a half-billion dollar compensation package. Yes, B, not M. At the same time grading out as one of the worst CEOs of a major company in terms of performance.
How many gov't employees have half-billion dollar deals?
Or check the average experience of "senior" contract lawyers for the gov't, or software engineers, or cyber security, or physical therapists. It is amazingly low because they get scarfed up by industry for 2 to 4 times the salary.
Next time you gripe about the price of an "F-88", look at the typical negotiating teams on major ACAT-I contracts: "Boeing" has a team of 10 lawyers, half with 30+ years of contract law experience. The AF might counter with three, two of whom at Captains with 4 years experience each. Any guess who the contract deal is lopsided in favor of?
A "big bonus" last year for a senior gov't engineer on a major project that has passed every test with flying colors so far? $850. The contractor's senior engineer? $35,000. But in your mind which one is overpaid? The gov't one of course. [Before you ask my bonus, I am an independent consultant so mine was $0.]
Take your whining crybaby BS and shove it. Your post sounds like nothing but the jealous sour grapes of a person who was not hired to be a WG-1 floor sweeper. I am sorry you don't get sick days, holidays, vacation, or training. I guess life sucks when you are a day laborer. And who would want a TRAINED gov't worker anyway? Total waste in your mind, right?
Morale trips? Other than deployed military I don't know a lot of those.
Conventions? I volunteered (that mean no pay in case you have difficulty with 11-letter words) at a mid sized convention this summer. The contractor attendees generally stayed in the fancy hotel at $300 a night or so. A lot of the government attendees drove about 80 miles round trip each day in DC traffic because the gov't wouldn't pay per diem. Another one of your "good deals"?
Originally Posted by Old-T
The news tonight just talked about the CEO of Viacom having a half-billion dollar compensation package. Yes, B, not M. At the same time grading out as one of the worst CEOs of a major company in terms of performance.Wrong. I own stock in Viacom so I looked it up. I agree the CEO is overpaid, but he doesn't get anywhere near half a billion dollars a year. According to this link, he received $425 million over a 5-year period. Most of that (over 90%) is in the form of Viacom stock or stock options, so there are multiple ways to calculate his compensation package.
How many gov't employees have half-billion dollar deals?
Originally Posted by Old-T