The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced

Re:The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced by tssva on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:42PM (#20216805)

Besides the overtime everything else would be part of the job you were being paid to do. As a federal employee depending on your job classification you were paid either 1.5x your salary or 1.5x the salary of a GS-10 Step 1 adjusted for your locality for the overtime. Most likely in private industry you would be a salaried employee and not have received overtime pay or a bonus which exceeds what you received in overtime pay.

Also challenge coins, especially given to a civilian employee, are considered an honor in the DoD. Your post gives the impression of a great sense of entitlement on your part.

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Re:The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced by GlenTheMachine on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:32PM (#20217394)

Maybe they are to uniformed members of the military. I've never once seen a civilian use, display, carry, or talk about a challenge coin. They typically get thrown in the back of a desk drawer and forgotten about. We literally have no use for them whatsoever. They don't even make good paperweights.

I have a stack of fourteen of them. Most of them I was given for spending thirty minutes giving some random officer a tour of the lab. They're not exactly hard to get.

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Re:The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced by LyndsySimon on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:09PM (#20219721)

I’d say most “gun nuts” at least know what they are. They’re not that obscure.

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