Working at the mothership I’ve seen a few retirement parties. Some of them were pretty cool. Some were piss-poor pandemic “parties”. One was a lukewarm Domino's pizza, paper plates and a 2-liter bottle of generic orange soda on a folding table affair. Are you fucking kidding me? 30+ years gets you that? The guest of honor intentionally left before the pizza showed up.
That little government worker ditty above is circa 2007, when my perspective on government workers was based on interactions with court clerks: municipal, county and federal. When I showed it to a UW employee I knew back then, he got a bit peeved, taking pride in his state employee status.
10 years later I became a government worker. The ditty is holding up well, I wouldn’t change a thing. But now that I’m talking shit from the inside out, toggling between essential and nonessential status, depending on the weather or the passing pandemic, I might add a few lines, and then add a few more.
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