Whelp, glad I don't work for you with how you treat strangers over the internet who have been in your shoes. Oh how quick people like you forget.

Excuse me? I told you my story. Not all of us get in, even after going through the process countless times. My attitude has been very forthcoming and polite whereas yours has been downright repulsive. Have a Merry Christmas knowing you've got a guaranteed paycheck 👍

Okay? Your really poor attitude has shown nothing but a lack of knowledge on both how contracting works and government hiring works.

Is that a serious statement? Do you think one just asks for or applies for a government job and just gets it? 🤦

I'll attempt to school you a bit:

1. Most of us have gone through the hiring process for government positions only to get denied for the position...Many times over...For years. Mind you, these are government positions where we would do the same exact job we have been doing as contractors for years.
2. Many government agencies only hire from the outside at post college entry level, say a GS-10/11. If you're working at the level of a GS-13, it's very difficult financially in the DC Metro area to downgrade that far (35%+).

Please try and be more kind and empathetic to people, especially when you have no knowledge of their circumstances.

Yep, I was on a contract like that during COVID. I worked in the office the entire pandemic, no telework allowed. We were even forced to do shift work because COVID protocols would not allow for all of us to be present in the office at the same time.

Your facts are wrong. Most of us have salaries equivalent to our government counterparts. Most of us work the jobs we do because we believe in the service we provide to our country. If government employees are allowed to get two hours off from work for free because of bad weather, as contractors we should at least be allowed to work those two hours and get paid for them. That's a fair ask and shouldn't be ridiculed by strangers who don't walk in our shoes.

Why such harsh negativity? We count on 40 hours of pay each week just like most full-time workers.

We were fortunate today and had a govie come in at the normal start time. If that didn't happen, we were told by contract program management that we would have to take PTO for the 2 hours as the government denied allowing us the ability to make up the hours by either adding them to the end of a work day or working a weekend day.

Our contract states plain as day that if the government is not there, we cannot be there and we cannot bill hours. I've worked on many contracts yet this is the first one I've ever seen written like this. People can continue to downvote the hell out of me but it doesn't make what I'm saying any less true.

It depends upon how the contract is written. We are not allowed to work or bill hours if the government is not present. The government will not guarantee someone will be there at the normal starting time which translates to we have to show up two hours late and will not get paid. It's even worse when the entire day is a wash.

Lame. Soooo many fed contractors will go unpaid for those two hours because of this nonsense.