You did, though, in this thread, several times:

This is obviously a major gripe you have with your time working for the Census. If it wasn't, you wouldn't talk about it all the time.

Sounds like you should become a stronger supporter of labor rights - or, if not, stop acting so entitled about the way your employer treated you in an employment situation you agreed to as a consenting adult.

Unpaid overtime is bad when I do it, but when poor people complain about it they need to respect the free market lol

Yeah, this doesn't add up. I've never heard of a federal job that worked people 10 hours a day 7 days a week and I sorta doubt the census is on a production schedule such that it has to operate like a Dickensian factory line. What person with an advanced math/science degree is ever working a job like that? Even the guys I know who worked at Intel were't driven that hard.

He's lying.

Also enjoyed the part where he somehow complained about the government paying for him to go to school.

Wait, republicans lie?

Those guys need a union.


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Ya I took it for granted as a lie. What couldnt understand is why. Like he had to know ee wouldnt believe it.

You'd think federal employees would get federal holidays off, but no.

Is this really a thing? They don’t get federal holidays off?

No, dumbass. Mason is a liar.

Eh, I once went about 6 months as a prosecutor prepping for and then trying a particularly complex murder trial where i basically worked the hours Mason just described. Yeah, i technically worked 37.5 hours a week and had weekends and federal holidays off, but in actuality i was averaging about 10-12 hours a day 7 days a week. It’s possible to be in public service and work hours like that, especially if you’re an exempt employee and not in a union. As a side note, when you work like that, a weird side effect is that you lose all capacity to judge what day of the week it is without specifically looking at like your watch or calendar. I’d have to consciously look at a calendar to figure out if it was the weekend so I’d know I could not wear a suit that day.

Considering professional gambling, an occupation that provides no service to society, more worthwhile than census work is ****ed up.

Though you seem to be the kind of guy who thinks a job is only worthwhile if it puts more money into your bank account. Typical deplorable selfishness.

Bob:

Your assumptions are way off, but thanks for the insult. After Census, I worked for Northrop for over five years and think very highly of Northrop/Grumman.

Mason

northrop/grumman is an arms dealer

Working for the military industrial complex, Mason? I'm sure children in the Middle East would be proud of your contributions if they weren't too busy avoiding the bombs made by Northrop Grumman.

Anyway, it was a fair assumption given that you've spent numerous posts complaining about unpaid overtime hours while working at the Census Department rather than recognizing its positive contributions and necessity. It led me to believe that you prioritized salary over benefit to society.

I don’t think your comment is at all accurate. But if it makes you feel better, I did work on blowing up the Soviet Union.

MM

you didn't blow up the soviet union tho, and it's a good thing that never happened

jfc

Just to be a little more accurate, when I worked there it was just Northrop. Grumman was still a separate company.

Mason

also, from 1990

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-02-..._fraud-charges

so now you're touting your time as an employee of a defense contractor who defrauded taxpayers out of millions (maybe billions)

their rap sheet re: fraud investigations is ridiculously long stretching to the present day lol

And I believe that I played a small part in helping to assure that war with the Soviet Union never happened.

Mason

i think you played a bigger part in defrauding taxpayers tbh, the soviet union didnt collapse because of anything NG did

Amazing. I left Northrop in 1987. My comments only refer to when I was there. Also, my work all revolved around Reliability Engineering and Probability Theory.

Mason

what i'm saying is that perhaps NG isnt the bastion of good stewardship that you think it is

(and they were most definitely working on projects in 1987 that they were later accused of fraud for, read the article)

at least they paid you well tho amirite

but like maybe, just maybe your time publishing poker books and starting up an online poker forum was more worthwhile and harmed less people than anything you did at NG

it definitely helped me, so thanks

Yep

LOL Mason, doesn't give a **** about workers' rights but feels super entitled about his overtime hours at the Census, then goes to the crown jewel of American capitalism: the private sector where oops turns out his employer was guilty of massive fraud