# Fellow Federal Employees...How will you spend your shutdown?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-federal-employees-how-will-you-spend-your-shutdown/670025>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 30, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-federal-employees-how-will-you-spend-your-shutdown/670025 "2013-09-30T19:07:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-federal-employees-how-will-you-spend-your-shutdown/670025/1 "2013-09-30T19:07:03Z")

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Me, I’m going to get some stuff done at our rental house, keep my hands and mind busy, and hope like hell these jackballs can get their act together.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-federal-employees-how-will-you-spend-your-shutdown/670025/2 "2013-09-30T20:10:21Z")

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Congress hasn’t even been able to pass a budget since 2009, so I’m afraid it’s going to be messy.

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**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-federal-employees-how-will-you-spend-your-shutdown/670025/3 "2013-09-30T20:11:43Z")

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My friend who is a grad student and works for NASA for his research is going to work on his thesis some more, and enjoy his “unpaid vacation” as he put it.

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**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-federal-employees-how-will-you-spend-your-shutdown/670025/4 "2013-09-30T20:25:33Z")

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I’m sorry you got shut down. But if it happened to me, I’d make being non-essential work for me.

“I need you stay late, and come in on Saturday”  
“Not me? Surely you need somebody _essential_?”