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>>nice work hours. brother-in-law tells us about his office and its 2 hour coffee breaks. your government at work
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>Now Dave....much our workday (when/what) is mandated by the Feds. With some small flexibility, our standard day is 8-5. Overtime MUST be approved ahead of time (Unless it's a production problem) and any time over 8 hours in one day is overtime. That is by law, also, by law, the employees must get 15 minutes of breaktime for every 4 hours work. Now I don't know where your Bro-in-Law works, but I know that around here 95% of our government at works actually WORKS.

Being a Fed and having experienced dodging alot of deadwood floating around here, "works at what?" :)

FWIW, when I was a Program Manager, and before the Ma (Governor) Richards "cost saving" merger to TNRCC (Texas Enviro Agency), I used to visit your TDH offices in Austin fairly often (Drinking Water Program -- Charles Maddox, et al).