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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFeds to furloughed workers: Try bartering for rent
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opm-shutdown-advice-to-furloughed-workers-try-bartering-for-rent/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=61659711
The agency that oversees federal workers has some advice for the 800,000 furloughed workers who are entering a seventh day without pay: Try bartering for your rent payment.
The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday provided sample letters that furloughed workers can send to their landlords in case they can't make their rent payments. One of the letters suggests the cash-strapped workers could barter handyman services in exchange for rent money.
"I would like to discuss with you the possibility of trading my services to perform maintenance (e.g. painting, carpentry work) in exchange for partial rent payments," the letter states. It also asks the landlords if they would consider a partial rent reduction because of the government shutdown.
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Feds to furloughed workers: Try bartering for rent (Original Post)
G_j
Dec 2018
OP
And what do you offer the grocer and the banker who holds your mortgage? Who wrote this crap...
Hekate
Dec 2018
#3
Send all of their rent bills to rump to pay...since he's so f***ing rich, he shouldn't quibble ...
SWBTATTReg
Dec 2018
#5
Landlords often have mortgages to pay as well. The idiocy is boundless. nt
UniteFightBack
Dec 2018
#7
no_hypocrisy
(46,116 posts)1. "I'll sleep with you for a meatball . . . . "
maveric
(16,445 posts)2. What if you own your home/mortgage?
Do you sweep the floors of the bank?
Hekate
(90,704 posts)3. And what do you offer the grocer and the banker who holds your mortgage? Who wrote this crap...
...that Nevada candidate who thought modern Americans could pay their doctors bills with a sack of potatos or a live chicken? (that was about a decade ago)
Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)4. Unbelievable
SWBTATTReg
(22,129 posts)5. Send all of their rent bills to rump to pay...since he's so f***ing rich, he shouldn't quibble ...
one bit about helping these workers.
malaise
(269,020 posts)6. The goons, scumbags and criminals making up this kakistocracy
are shameless
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)7. Landlords often have mortgages to pay as well. The idiocy is boundless. nt