<story><title>At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecolorblue</author><text>Is it better to find short term solutions, like odd jobs, or to find new employment?</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>Good for them!&lt;p&gt;Working without pay is completely nonsensical. The relationship between the employee and employer has been broken.&lt;p&gt;If I were in some of these guys shoes I&amp;#x27;d be working odd jobs to make ends meet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surge</author><text>&amp;quot;The IRS is also losing 25 IT staffers every week since the shutdown began, with many finding other jobs, one House aide said, citing the IRS officials&amp;#x27; briefing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;At least some are already doing this.</text></comment>
<story><title>At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecolorblue</author><text>Is it better to find short term solutions, like odd jobs, or to find new employment?</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>Good for them!&lt;p&gt;Working without pay is completely nonsensical. The relationship between the employee and employer has been broken.&lt;p&gt;If I were in some of these guys shoes I&amp;#x27;d be working odd jobs to make ends meet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>One possible motivation for the administration holding out on the shutdown is it encourages people to leave the civil service; they&amp;#x27;ve been fairly open previously about wanting to purge he federal civil service of those not loyal to Trump, either leaving holes or backfilling with loyalists. Civil service rules make this difficult, but driving people off with no pay (and publicly characterizing staying in that situation as a noble gesture of loyalty to the President, as some admin figures have done) is one way to do some.of that in a way which avoids civil service protections.</text></comment>