I can honestly say I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as a federal worker.
Right now I’m working on my resume. I’m open to work, preferably in finance as I have my accounting degree. If you know of anyone hiring please let me know.
As I have mentioned before, please do not post your political beliefs as I am not interested in debates or opinions. During this time, please remember that government employees are workers at risk of losing their job. It’s scary as most of us have dedicated our careers to government and government operations is all that most of us know and now will be forced to look outside for other options and start over. No matter which side everyone is one, no one wants to lose their job so please be mindful of this. Remember that government employees are humans too and it is a very scary time for most of us and our families.
don’t get me wrong - fuck that guy, he had a choice, and he chose the more harmful option.
but i mean, let’s be real, the guy got scammed/tricked by republicans into voting against his own interests, and now has to deal with that realization, plus the stress of losing his job, plus also now he has to listen to people saying “i told you so!”
there are two paths from there - admitting he was wrong, and doubling down. it’s hard to admit when you’re wrong, but it’s much easier when people are understanding and compassionate, and much much harder when people are making fun of your misfortune and having a “told ya so” victory lap
it’s really tempting to give in to the urge to clown on these people for bringing this shit on themselves, but these are the moments where a bit of compassion can change the world.
by all means, though, if it’s not for you, that’s totally understandable, i just hope you can kinda see where i’m coming from, even if you don’t agree
Honestly, irl I would be a bit more outwardly compassionate because there’d be a chance for a discussion, but we need to stop pretending like they “got scammed/tricked”. Trump readily and openly said he wanted to do a bunch of horrible things, and now he’s doing them. Even if you’re deep in right wing spaces and only seeing propaganda, he was not quiet about how he wanted to shut down whole government departments. He talked about how they needed to cut back on spending and to my recollection mentioned defunding the irs before the election (though it’s hazy because it’s been a blur), also closing the EPA and dept of education. Gotta give it to him that he’s doing a better job of keeping his campaign promises than the dems. The grown adults that voted for him had access to that information and were probably for it until it affected them personally. Not to mention that even if they were ok with personal job loss if it meant less govt spending, they still were either happy to or didn’t mind selling out literally every member of the LGBT community, every immigrant, POC, and women (not to mention the poor white men), just for this agenda.
Teachers that voted for Trump are upset about education cuts and like, HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO THAT. Here’s a SEPTEMBER 2024 article: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/politics/department-of-education-shut-down-trump/index.html
How can you or anyone, including them, say they were tricked? The guy can’t stop saying the quiet part out loud. The best defense I have heard from them is that they thought “he wouldn’t actually be able to do that”, which if anything, makes them look even WORSE.
I’m not looking for a victory lap, I’m looking for even a shred that if Trump reverses the specific decision that affected them personally, that they would still take issue with him. I’ve seen some people do this, for what it’s worth, and they generally get a much warmer reception.
I’m so sick of (not you personally) people in general acting like his voters were little babies that didn’t know what they were doing, with no eyes or ears or access to the internet or even just his actual words on FOX news. It’s one thing to say that you didn’t understand tariffs (even though everyone in the world was telling you what they actually would do), but to be surprised when he fires government employees is absolutely beyond the pale. Uneducated Trump voters either did it for the racism or “the economy”, so either this guy is a racist and that’s why he lost his job (good, fuck racists) or he heard Trump say he was gonna cut government spending and he voted for his own firing (lol, lmao even). I cannot think of a reason this person should enjoy any compassion unless they are willing to own up to what they did. Otherwise, they’re either still just a racist who didn’t realize that voting for a racist would mean he’d be fired, or someone who is getting EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED when they cast their vote to lower government spending and apparently still support it except for the tiny little fact that it meant they’re out of a job.
Despite all of that, I want to reiterate that IRL I would be willing to engage in a non-hostile discussion with this person and not actively make fun of them. I would push back on their unwillingness to discuss it as a political issue and if they refused to budge about being willing to discuss it then I’d peace out. If you have the energy of the black guy befriending kkk members so they stop being racist, more power to you. I legitimately believe some people can be helped with that approach, but this guy wants to stick his head in the sand and if he got a bunch of laughing emoji reacts and didn’t wake up the next day, I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. If you’re out there doing deradicalization, I think that’s great. There’s probably better uses for your time, but admittedly clowning on them instead is probably not one of them. (Sorry not sorry for the rant. Everything is terrible and typing on the internet gives me moments of reprieve from the reality of it all lol). Thanks for fighting the good fight, however you decide to fight it.