Employed since 2005.
Employed by the Department of Defense as a "GS". The General Schedule (GS) is a salaried pay scale within the civil service. The GS includes managerial, technical, administrative, and clerical positions. About 70% percent of federal civilian employees are GS. Lower skilled - and lower hourly payed - blue collar jobs are categorized as Wage Grade (WG).
And I am, apparently, hated by the American public.
Polling shows that most Americans hold the United States Congress in the same esteem typically reserved for root canals and Nickelback, but there’s another group in Washington that’s not doing much better in the public’s eyes: federal workers.
As lawmakers seem to be lurching towards a government shutdown that could keep much of the federal workforce uncertain about their next paycheck, public opinion -- and sympathy -- for the more than two million civilian federal employees is at record lows.
A new poll from the George Washington University out this week shows that 35 percent of registered voters said they have “little or no confidence” in federal workers, up sharply from 23 percent just two years ago. Just one in five Americans say they have “lot of confidence” in government employees.
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Now I am furloughed.