If a worker at a Sheetz gas station approached their job the way John Fetterman does, they’d be fired within a week. It’s one of the many irrational things about our economy and system of labor. If you make ten bucks an hour selling hot dogs and coffee to truckers, you have little room for error. Misplace a $20 bill, flout the company dress code, or pull the infamous “no-call, no-show,” and in an at-will employment state like Pennsylvania, you can lose your job that same day. But if you pull down a much higher rate of pay, at taxpayer expense, and the stakes of your job are far higher, apparently any notion of professional standards or accountability disappears. You can wear your gross sweatpants to formal events, be a massive jerk to anyone who even slightly questions you, blow off sick children and veterans who need your help, and just plain fail to show up for work. In short, you can get away with being John Fetterman.

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