1776

The interesting thing is that I work in the private sector and enjoy almost every one of the benefits he apparently thinks are exclusive to government work. I don’t get a pension, and generally work more than 40 hours a week, but I mostly enjoy it and pay no income tax in Texas to boot.

Sounds like the guy just wants to be punished. Some people enter the clergy and flog themselves, he’s doing it his way.

1777

Seems like another entry in this new genre of fiction to me.

1778

At all? Or just not defined benefit?

1779

This is America! We don’t really do pensions. Or healthcare. Or basic worker rights, when we can get away with it.

1780

I thought most places would at least do a 401k.

Over here, I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to get those other benefits without getting a pension. There’s an automatic enrolment one even if you don’t choose to do a voluntary one.

1781

Yeah, sounds made up. I don’t really get what it has to do with buying crypto though.

1782

I’m gonna guess (if it’s not straight-up fiction) that he got fired for cause, and now he’s trying to reclaim some self-esteem.

1783

Gotta be fiction.

My father was a firefighter. As a public service worker who received a pension he is ineligible to draw Social Security.

1784

As others have noted, pensions are pretty rare here in the US now. My older sister is about to retire with one though, after working 20 or so years at her company. It’s great if you can get it.

But 401ks and matching are quite common. My company matches 50% of up to 10% of salary, with a vesting period of course, which is also common.

1785

Pensions are common (standard?) in the Federal government.

1786

To me it reads as: The Federal Government is treating employees as they should be treated everywhere.

That’s kind of how you would want the government acting – as a model employer, providing an example to private industry, and absolutely not exploiting its employees on our (meaning the citizens) behalf.

1787

To be honest, I don’t trust private pension funds. The government is the only entity I would trust not to let their pensions go bust, and I don’t think I’d trust a local government or probably at least some state governments.

1788

401ks seem common for professionals, yeah.

1789

When I first started at my college, we had a defined benefit (pension) retirement plan. Very shortly thereafter we transitioned to a 403(b) with employer matching. Those of us who had time in the previous plan had that plan rolled into the 403(b) eventually, though it still shows up or did for a while at least as a sort of separate folder as it were. But even though the markets this past couple of years have hit the 403(b) stuff hard, I am reasonably certain it will bounce back before I retire. I would have been very skeptical of our defined benefit plan actually weathering the storm.

1790

You don’t have to. I was just so verklempt I had to share.

1791

No pronouns necessary. Except for ladies to get premium. And to say we only accept men and women.
Somehow, it will still fail at attracting women.

1792

I am a woman. And I am sexy. Send me your credit card information. For my OnlyFans.

1793

Was he ineligible to draw Social Security because he didn’t contribute to Social Security, or was there some other reason? Many employers and employees with pensions explicitly do not contribute to Social Security and are hence ineligible to receive it, but the understanding is that the pension will reward them at least as much as Social Security would have in retirement.

If he contributed to Social Security and couldn’t draw on it in retirement, that’s F’d up.

1794

“Be authentic! And creative!”

The profiles are sure to be fair and balanced, then.

1795

Look on the bright side, a new site to potentially honeypot as yet uncaught J6th insurrectionists. In my experience all these people need to let down their guard is the slightest inkling they have a friendly audience.