Those of us who are not furloughed make up a skeleton crew left in the office, and we're potentially working without pay. Yes, I'm one of those government employees. I won't go into which agency I work for or what my position is other than to say that we do "back office" work and do not have direct contact with the public. That said, I can speak for my entire team and say that we all would rather be on the job without pay than to be home and learn that a problem occurred that we would have rectified had we been on the job.