If you roll into any bar downtown on a weekday during the day, it’s all state employees, Feds in some cases. I was one of them. Show up at 10, leave at 11:30/12, get blackout drunk and go right home without coming back to the office.

I just have such an overwhelming rage reading this lol. I mean good for you, don’t take it personally but seriously fuck all of the overpaid lazy state employees. Fuck every single one of them.

People still lounge around at malls?

Even if we wanted to do work, we couldn’t in a lot of cases, too much red tape. So even if we were in the office we weren’t doing anything. It used to be that our bosses were insistent we had to be physically present from 8-5 outside of lunch. After Covid nobody cared. I left for the private sector last year, certainly can’t get away with that stuff where I am now.

You’re right. As other commenters have said, they’re hanging around bars.

The problem is the state is severely understaffed. Covid brought a wave of retirements and then another wave when people were forced back into the office. The state is offering current employees a bonus if they refer a new hire…: this has NEVER happened. They cannot hire people.

>I feel like our government is full of stale, passionless people who are just counting the days to retirement. Time for them to get back to work.

When are you applying?

Haha hell yeah

You mean overstaffed

Suck burn dude

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>it must be almost April,

To be fair, this is accurate

Dhcd works remote now. They go into the office 2 days a month

Not intended to be. Be the change you want to see.

I’ve applied for plenty of training roles for the state that I’m qualified for, and I am lucky if I even get a canned rejection email

I feel that a lot of organizations -- primarily governmental and medicinal -- are taking advantage of our Covid hangover. Doctors are slow to get back to face-to-face appts., government workers don't answer phones, appts. are often scheduled months out when they really don't have to be. Minor civic interactions such as appealing a traffic ticket seem more complicated and confusing.

Many of these things were bad before, but now forget about it.

Hit the nail on the head. It’s going to take leadership saying some uncomfortable things I think to arouse everyone back.

Including the person you're responding to. C'mon, don't back down now.

I take it your wife’s brother is not a current state employee?

ETA: Just to add context to my cynicism. I worked every summer during college for the MDC (yes I’m old). This job was impossible to get unless you knew somebody. I literally picked up trash and mowed weeds next to route 16 for minimum wage. All of my co-workers were either college kids or prisoners.

An actual career-track job with health insurance and a pension is not something you can just apply for, unless things have changed dramatically for the better.

No excuse, I work remotely 1-2 days a week but my phone is forwarded and I am expected to pick it up (not a state employee obv).

No, they are lazy pieces of shit

Yeah, but they risk getting fired…and they’re not paid by our taxes

Yeah - former executive and legislative employee here... I am shocked that this comment was made, every bit of my experience was the exact opposite. I would love to know what alphabet agency (s)he worked for and if they reported it to the state auditor's office.

My bet is that it is a no, and that the majority of this never happened because every news outlet would be all over that. And guess where there is a press office? Right by the state offices at Ashburton in the state house. Those press people know every haunt in the area. Maybe they worked for MassDOT or something elsewhere, but nobody is going in for an hour of work than "getting black out drunk." The press rightfully hit the MBTA director for working out of state. We had random civic groups drop in on a Friday to see whose offices were open. There is far more attention on who is in than the private sector by far, and it is really easy to see in the press.

As for my 50-grand a year, there wasn't a time that I think I could have made far better money out in the private sector - where I ended up. And in my experience, it is worse with the abuse and waste. So overpaid? Hardly. Talent is bled out constantly because of the shit pay for us cogs that pushed things forward.

Edit: The original poster is a contributor to the conspiracy-addled subreddit #walkaway, which amongst other things peddles election fraud and other things. So believe who you want.

Totally different now dude- also can’t work summers to pay for college FYI

Ummmm…. Nope

It's a fair question. Rather than throwing a hissy fit you could be the catalyst for change.

> An actual career-track job with health insurance and a pension is not something you can just apply for, unless things have changed dramatically for the better.

And yet, I did. I know no one in state government work.

Email, not phone. I often have to contact state agencies blindly for my job and if I email them I get a response within a day, or even same-day, but phone calls take a few days to a week. I assume most people are working remotely without forwarding systems.

DHCD is swamped. The problem isn’t with them but with state funding.

if state employees cared at all about getting paid, they'd work in the private sector

I've applied for a couple of state jobs in the past year and I was very qualified for them. Heard nothing back.

Sorry to hear that. With a new administration sometimes jobs are on hold no matter how needed

I work at an agency that sues other agencies.

Obviously…my point was that they should be punished for laziness because they’re paid with our tax dollars, not that we should pay them more lmao

I guess all the HR people retired.

Awesome, hombre

Well wish me luck because I actually got an interview!!