Comment: You mean the $40K plus 40% benefits load Admin Clerk whose high school diploma would get her $20K and no benefits in the private sector, that Admin Clerk?   This really isn't the kind of comparison you want to make, because the State pays far above market in lower/entry level jobs.

And those "rubes" you're talking about are your boss.   You're a poster child for why it is so easy to hate public employees.    Most of them are just ordinary people who go to work and do what they're told, but there is a fairly large contingent who are arrogant malcontents and they get away with it in union-friendly administrations because supervisors don't dare supervise.   In less union-friendly times we got the pleasure of firing some of them.