Coast Guard Should Not Guard Our Coasts If They Are Not Getting Paid - Would You Work With No Pay?

[PaulX2]

And all the others who will lose big $$.

When the corpses start piling up, maybe Mr. Trump will change his mind.

[Vinca]

1. Maybe the TSA should walk out. If the airports shut down all hell will break loose.

Something's got to give here. It's not fair these people are being held hostage for a toddler's hissy fit.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Just so we know,

TSO's are mandated to show for their Duty times. A know show is a voluntary quit unless you do sick out or have approved Vacation time or a Family emergency.

Again that can vary by TSA Duty Stations.

[BigmanPigman]

2. His secret service, and the secret service for all his children,

should be paid or they should get to go home. Maybe if the fucking moron's safety were an issue he would stop this shitshow for his cult/base.

[sarisataka]

3. Luckily the Coast Guard

Is staffed with members who believe in duty and value lives over money, trusting things will eventually be made right

[912gdm]

4. wish I could 'like' a reply.

[PaulX2]

11. So What If They Can't Make Their House Payments

Cuz of their duty.

They should be able to opt out.

Protecting a country of dumbass deplorables.

Soon the farm aid will run out.

We don't need farms!

[politicaljunkie41910]

12. We're lucky indeed. My son had a classmate in high school who is an Officer in the Coast Guard.

God Bless them for their selflessness. I realize that people's lives have been impacted by the government shutdown, but I am thankful for those who are willing to put themselves in harms way for the sake of others.

[Mendocino]

5. Trump gets paid,

doesn't work.

[Hekate]

7. Are you volunteering to be the first corpse in the putative pile?Is everything in your life about $?

Is nothing in your life about love of something outside yourself? A sense of higher purpose? Or duty, honor, and self-respect? Does your word mean nothing?

Or is everything in your life transactional -- which is how Trump and family live their hollow lives?

The people who serve this nation depend on their salaries just like the rest of us. They don't sign up to be abused.

But the vast majority have a sense of higher purpose -- of duty and honor and all those other character traits that are so foreign to Trump. They will stay, and they will serve. If they decide to leave they will not desert their posts, but wait until there is a legal and appropriate way out.

I think you underestimate them and do them a disservice.

[Iggo]

8. Exactly this.

[tazkcmo]

16. Thank you. n/t

[FSogol]

9. Unrec. n/t

[PaulX2]

10. Let Mexico Pay Their Salaries!

With Tamales!

[Hekate]

13. These are not ordinary "jobs." You really do not get to just walk off. God forbid we should have to

...depend on you, PaulX2.

[Igel]

14. They will be paid.

And it can be hard. Once back in the '80s my employer had a cash flow problem. We didn't get paid for a couple of weeks, and then we got back pay.

We had the option of taking our time off then. We didn't.

Wasn't the only time I had to shuffle income. In grad school I was working in my dorm when California had a budget resolution dispute--it had them every year for a few years in the '90s. The budget was many weeks late getting passed. As a result, my pay check was on hold for a month. Not only that, but it affected grad students. Financial aid, for example, and teaching assistantships were on hold, as well.

Wasn't a comfortable time. On the other hand, back pay was forthcoming.

So it wasn't like I put in one minute of unpaid time. Instead of getting paid 5 days after the end of the 2-week pay period (meaning I'd get paid for some days 19 days after I worked), I got paid a few weeks later. If I hadn't done the work, they would have docked my pay--then there'd have been no pay for no work.

News was that the pay checks went out last week and that what's going to be affected is prep for the next paychecks. Don't know if that's true for all agencies or not.

[tazkcmo]

15. Yes, they should.

And no I haven't but was prepared to while serving in the Army. Being in the armed forces is bigger than your pay check which wasn't much when I served. We took an oath. We carry on.