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I can't remember if it is the Freakonomics guys or Malcolm Gladwell, but one of them talked about air conditioning's affect on crime in the cities.They state that prior to AC people used to sit out on their front porches every night to cool off. Once AC came along and was readily available, people started spending their evenings inside so there wasn't as much observation out in the streets.
Fiscal year end is a son of a b**** for government financial people. I know, this too shall pass. It does every year.
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Me at work yesterday:
Me: "No, that $1.4M in funds is not something you can send our agency for construction support work next year. The funds expire 9/30/15."
Everyone Else: Oh!
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Oh man, its gonna be a good one today at the rate of ******** and moaning going on already at 0900...
ISUSKA pm that. Otherwise I will forget.
Without sending this to the cave the gov't could also get shut down at the end of next week.
Boxster looks like you have some money budgeted for an end of year party....I mean "new business exploration committee kickoff".
Without sending this to the cave the gov't could also get shut down at the end of next week.
Boxster looks like you have some money budgeted for an end of year party....I mean "new business exploration committee kickoff".
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I didn't even know it was storming until my alarm went off. I think the worst of it was north of me.
Our branch has enough no-year appropriations that we will be fully functional through the end of October. Also, we are generally considered to be "essential" employees. It would take a really long shutdown before they would send us home to not work and be paid for it at a later date.
I ******* hate people. I was in a computer lab on campus yesterday updating and printing out my resume before the career fair. I forgot about my flash drive and left it in the computer. I couldn't find it last night then remembered where I left it. I went back to look for it this morning and of course, it's gone. It had a lot of important stuff on it. ****.
My only hope is that there is an honest person left in this world. I put a note on the door so hopefully they see it.
My only hope is that there is an honest person left in this world. I put a note on the door so hopefully they see it.
The nice thing is with this being the third year in a row with the threat of a shutdown its pretty much business as usual. It has no shock value for our office anyways.
Natural career progression from degree in landscape architecure to subject matter expert on interagency agreements and fiscal law as it pertains to federal appropriations. Yup, that's what I was thinking when I was designing parks in a design office in DSM so many years ago.
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Business as usual is the right term. When this first started happening about 5-6 years ago it was much more stressful.
Fiscal years are all over the board. Ours is end of the year. My wife's work is end of March. Several of our customers are at the end of June. Gov't is end of Sept.
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