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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (743478)	10/2/2013 11:33:15 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574751

>Federal workers aren't even allowed to check their work e-mails. How stupid is that? Because according to a law passed in 1870 (as was shown here earlier), it's pretty clear that it's illegal for a government worker who is not declared essential can't show up to work during a shutdown, even as a volunteer. Given that it was 1870, it's not clear whether e-mail counts, but the supervisors are being careful so they don't get in trouble. In a political atmosphere where public servants are pariahs, can you really blame them? Yeah, I agree it's stupid, but it's (probably) the law. -Z