<p>You’d be good for 8 months if you listened to Suze Orman.</p>
<p>I know a number of university faculty, including some I’m very close to, who rely quite heavily on federal websites of one sort or another to keep abreast of current developments related to their teaching and research. Some of them also give assignments that require their students to glean data and information from government websites. Those websites are really a treasure trove of information; when they go down it has a big impact on parts of academia.</p>
<p>@Niquii–I’ve only been working for a year in one of the highest COL areas in the country. Having 2-3 months savings (rent, utilities, food) is quite an accomplishment, TYVM.</p>
<p>@bclintonk, I’m one of those people. I use census, CMS sites fairly often. Census has been down so no access to basic population data. CMS is up but the research data pages have the caveat that information may not be up to date. It’s a pain.</p>
<p>Friends who are among the 400’000 DoD who have to report to work again are confirming it all worked out pretty well. The totally predictable retroactive pay is as good as approved. Lots of chores taken care off. Fall weather is gorgeous.</p>
<p>So if all the furloughed workers get back pay, they’ve essentially had free paid vacations?? Where do I sign up for that?</p>
<p>S will be relieved to know that he will be getting retro pay for the work he’s been doing during the shutdown as a govt employee. He has savings so he hasn’t had a liquidity crisis yet, but is selling some items online a bit earlier than he originally intended, which should further improve his liquidity. </p>
<p>I guess I won’t hassle him about the loan he needs to repay me. Lol! :)</p>
<p>Plenty of private sector workers have to had to take time off without pay because of the poor economy. My company has had a number of unplanned shutdowns.</p>
<p>Oh heavens- now THIS is an unfortunate consequence of the government shutdown [Government</a> shutdown affects beer industry as Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau closes](<a href=“http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/government-shutdown-affects-beer-industry-as-alcohol-and-tobacco-tax-and-trade-bureau-closes]Government”>http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/government-shutdown-affects-beer-industry-as-alcohol-and-tobacco-tax-and-trade-bureau-closes)</p>
<p>And exactly-- the businesses affected by the shutdown will just have to suck up their losses. The furloughed employees will get paid. Not fair.</p>
<p>jym626 - I’m guessing you had your tongue in your cheek - but I wrote here about this before. I am in a TTB regulated business - distilled spirits - and this really does affect us. It makes it impossible to bring new products to market in a timely manner. When planning a promotional campaign and rollout of new products one has to depend on certain circumstances to fall into place - in particular label approval. It already take between 30-45 days before the woefully understaffed bureau can get around to reviewing applications - but at least one can somewhat count on that, and plan for it. Now everything is out the window. Isn’t uncertainty the buzzword for the depression of economic growth? Well this is uncertainty in a nutshell.</p>
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<p>Sitting at home all last week wondering when you’d go back to work or if you’d get paid and likely sitting home all next week concerned about the former (albeit no longer the latter) isn’t a “vacation.” And you sign up for it at USAJobs.gov, assuming the site hasn’t been shut down.</p>
<p>I’m curious about the people who say they’ve had no impact. We live in a symbiotic world, even if you don’t directly feel an impact, it is there. Just think of the FDA stopping most food inspections, there’s a potential impact I hope no one feels!</p>
<p>jym26–Federal contractors operating on FY14 funding (or lack thereof, in this case) are furloughed as well and do NOT get back pay. So keep ‘signing up’ if you want to. This is no vacation to me</p>
<p>Contractors are NOT FTE’s in any industry, and would not be subject to the benefits of a full time employee. Full time employees are getting paid vacations.</p>
<p>There is a column in today’s Wash Post about the “non-essential” parts of gov’t shut down which are really quite essential for our economy to function- just most people don’t really have a clue what a lot of the government does. It’s a blog so I can’t link it but anyone who is interested should check it out.</p>
<p>Shhh, Jym, writing what many think is a dangerous and slippery slope. I know my friends were hardly worried and fully enjoyed the Thanksgiving recital week. It had a tremendous impact on me, with loads of jokes, fantasy football updates flooding my inbox. Visibly a large increase of the typical Monday through Tuesday daytime delivery. </p>
<p>By the way, I wonder if I missed the usual CCCCC stories? It is not fathomable that the CC Cobrat’s Countless Cousins did not play a part in the shutdown.</p>
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<p>I have many friends who are teachers who have had to work unpaid days and have been furloughed a day an month. They will not get that money back. </p>
<p>I have a friend whose family member works for the IRS. Was gonna file for unemployment til they heard they’d get their back pay.</p>
<p>Emily, is linking to an unauthorized blog a lesser violation than not following the “personally impacted” rule? Unless you are one of the WaPo covered stories.</p>
<p>^ I wonder how many are going to be laughing when we go into default in a few weeks.</p>
<p>“Emily, is linking to an unauthorized blog a lesser violation than not following the “personally impacted” rule? Unless you are one of the WaPo covered stories.”</p>
<p>I am personally impacted. Everyone is impacted.</p>