Re: Else ... Not Getting Shit
  By: MIKE POWELL to AUGUST ABOLINS on Mon Feb 23 2026 11:07 am

 >
 > If you mean the people who are actually doing the work, not so much.  Those
 > people the ones that keep everything going, don't usually get paid a whole
 > lot for doing it, *and* they also pay taxes.  If they entered government
 > with an agreement that there'd be a pension for them when they retire, they
 > deserve (and are owed!) that pension.
 >

I think that claiming they are actually doing work is a bit of a heavy
estatement in a huge lot of cases.

My experience when  need to do something involving the administration is
something like:

1) Call to get an appointment. It takes ages because nobody takes the phone
ever.
2) Go there at the appointed time. The guy in charge is not there because he is
having a coffee break. The coffee break takes hours, apparently.
3) A random messup happens and you need to repeat the cycle a couple of times
until it gets fixed.

So yeah apparently we are paying these guys just to have the illusion that
somebody is at the helm. I am not gonna run in defense of these guys.


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