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Whining about the situation that many people I’ve known in the private sector have dealt with. You get laid off because you’re paid too much, you’re too new, you’re useless or lazy, or they’re just reorganizing. Welcome to the real world.

Whining about the situation that many people I’ve known in the private sector have dealt with. You get laid off because you’re paid too much, you’re too new, you’re useless or lazy, or they’re just reorganizing. Welcome to the real world.
[–] • 6 pts 2mo (edited 2mo)

Is anyone actually swayed by these sob stories about fired federal workers? Aside from academia administration, I can't think of a single sector which needed to be cut more than the federal workforce. "Oh it was my dream job!" Too fucking bad, live in the real world where you actually have to justify your employment.

The bureaucracy only exists to further itself at this point. It's well past the point of serving the people.

[–] • 0 pt 2mo

How about stories about how unconstitutional lockdowns ruined people’s businesses and livelihoods by threatening their professional licenses? Or how a restaurant has to close because they can’t exist with a ridiculously high minimum wage? Layoffs are common in the private sector, and they usually do it right before the end of the fiscal year which often coincides with Christmas. It sucks, but if we have to deal with that so should government employees.

[–] • 3 pts 2mo

Anyone who had been paying attention in the last four years would have understood that the government hired way too many people - most of last year's job gains were all federal.

The government would have toppled over had that continued - or, it would have required mass firings. Either way, our loveable young'in would have been out of a job.

[–] • 2 pts 2mo

From what I’ve seen lately that is not how it works in the public sector. They do not make cutbacks—at least not in personnel.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

Normally, no. But this isn't a normal situation - the government has grown at a phenomenal clip. At the rate it was going, it probably would have started to fall apart.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

Yes, but instead it’s scare tactics, this woman cut dead trees, since she’s laid off people’s houses will burn, etc.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

Could be. Probably be a lot of cuts and then useful jobs will filter back in.

[–] • 3 pts 2mo

Its amazing to me that federal workers, who are now going through what people in the private sector have gone through for decades, get a big story like this. I don't recall seeing anything like this during the mass layoffs in the oil and gas business over the last 40 years.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

It’s almost commonplace to see massive layoffs in the private sector these days. Why should anyone expect the government to be any different? Especially considering the massive amounts of hiring they’ve done over the last years

[–] • 0 pt 2mo

Absolutely. They don’t care about us, only those who can help them steal and grift.

[–] • 2 pts 2mo (edited 2mo)

Welcome to the real world.

Where youth, enthusiasm, skills, work ethic, drive, etc. don't necessarily mean jack when the rubber hits the road. She can now apply to State agencies, or maybe one of those timber companies with which she's recently interfaced.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

Yes, this is the truth. You can be an excellent employee but get the RIF.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

If nothing else, hopefully she learns that.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

Maybe she should learn to code

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

LOL, it takes a special type of brain to be able to do that competently. If her dream job is hiking in the woods and doing manual labor, I doubt she’d be competent. But maybe they could put her in management of an IT team.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

I completely understand why they’re just taking a chainsaw to the whole thing. I think the hard workers, that actually care about the work they do, can get rehired after the dust settles. People need to learn that it’s not a gravy train anymore. Forest services always seemed to be decent folks though, at least all that I’ve met.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

Yes, and she was doing essential work, but a good way to get rid of bad employees is to lay everyone off and hire back the best ones. If a company is worried about firing any protected class employees who are not carrying their weight, firing, or riffing everyone, shows that it was not about the individual person and essentially shields them from a lawsuit.