Contractor staff are serfs to fed staff: 2nd class at best - Research Scientist bei NASA: Mitarbeiterbewertung

If you are one of NASA's 18,000 federal employees, you have great benefits. If you are one of NASA's 50,000 employees, you will be a serf. (Akin to a member of a servile feudal class bound to the job and subject to the will of federal employees. In other words, poor benefits, extra work and hours for zero pay (because *everyone* is a salaryman), and when folks leave, you will do yet another job-for no pay. And so on.