http://blog.adamnash.com/2007/02/22/fun-facts-from-the-us-mint-website-job-openings/ The personal blog of Adam Nash Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.adamnash.com/2007/02/22/fun-facts-from-the-us-mint-website-job-openings/#comment-3134 Ray Hill Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:18:32 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/fun-facts-from-the-us-mint-website-job-openings/#comment-3134 If I take the engraver job, can I remove the god references from our federal currency? Or is that a different position? If I take the engraver job, can I remove the god references from our federal currency? Or is that a different position?

]]> http://blog.adamnash.com/2007/02/22/fun-facts-from-the-us-mint-website-job-openings/#comment-3132 Rebecca Nathenson Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:19:07 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/fun-facts-from-the-us-mint-website-job-openings/#comment-3132 Hey, makes perfect sense to me! Of course, I grew up with a dad working for the government, so the inanities of the GS system are quite familiar to me. You want weirdness, how's this: because no one else in the government can make more than Senators (or is it Congresscritters? one of the two), those people at GS-15 grade (which is the second-highest government grade, at least at the USGS--ST-00 is the top, and is quite rare) can, in some cases, get a "cap" on how much their raises can be (I think this only happens at the higher step levels--each GS grade has, I think, a dozen or so sub-grades called "steps"). This means that, at a certain point, the COLA that they'd get annually on their pensions EXCEEDS the potential annual raise they could receive. So, it actually makes more sense to retire, financially speaking, than to stick around. Hey, makes perfect sense to me! Of course, I grew up with a dad working for the government, so the inanities of the GS system are quite familiar to me. You want weirdness, how’s this: because no one else in the government can make more than Senators (or is it Congresscritters? one of the two), those people at GS-15 grade (which is the second-highest government grade, at least at the USGS–ST-00 is the top, and is quite rare) can, in some cases, get a “cap” on how much their raises can be (I think this only happens at the higher step levels–each GS grade has, I think, a dozen or so sub-grades called “steps”). This means that, at a certain point, the COLA that they’d get annually on their pensions EXCEEDS the potential annual raise they could receive. So, it actually makes more sense to retire, financially speaking, than to stick around.

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