Analogy for Fed workers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Voters voted for Trump. Many of them want this. They are not the same as simply turning away.

As bad as this is for feds, 2009 was worse for the private sector especially in certain industries. And then with covid, many other industries especially service ones either had to close or had to operate with a lot of exposure to covid.

It's not done being bad for feds. This is like late spring 2007 when Lehman Brothers failed but nobody else had been hit yet. The RIFs have not even started at the larger agencies.

And it's going to be worse than 2009 because Trump is destroying entire fields (i.e. not just hitting feds, but academic, nonprofit, and private sector employers involved in research etc)

+1

Also, what is being done to fed employees is being done for sheer cruelty by some of the most powerful people on earth. They are using as their ant farm to mess with for fun. None of this has to be happening. This isn’t just market forces outside of any particular person’s control.

I graduated into the recession and remember post-grad offers being rescinded, my parents’ friends losing their jobs, my parents worried about their retirement. I know it was really bad, I lived it and was unemployed for a while.

What is going on right now isn’t the same. I’ve never heard of a private sector CEO antagonizing the company’s employees, telling the world they are lazy and don’t deserve to get paid, and then destroying the local economy and job market as whole to make it impossible to find a new job once laid off.

This administration, including the OMB director, have *admitted* they want us to be vilified and traumatized. They want to ruin lives.

Find me another company trying to make millions of employees scared and miserable on top of tanking the company’s mission and ability to get the job done.

[Anonymous]

What kind of family did you grow up in OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You must not be a step-parent OP.

Excellent point. Really offensive, op

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Voters voted for Trump. Many of them want this. They are not the same as simply turning away.

As bad as this is for feds, 2009 was worse for the private sector especially in certain industries. And then with covid, many other industries especially service ones either had to close or had to operate with a lot of exposure to covid.

I feel bad for federal employees, I really do, but this is what the private sector has dealt with since forever. Recently during the recession and during Covid, there were so many layoffs and firings. Businesses went under, and these people had to find work. They went without work for months no insurance no backpay.

As for the voters, this is exactly what they voted for. Certainly not in the DC area, but the rest of the country did AND many Democrats have also said they wanted to do throughout the years. Obviously not this way, but it’s something that has been floating around for a while.

Lastly, the step parent analogy is gross. It’s an awful, dated and cartoonish stereotype.

It is true there have been similar things in the private sector. However, with respect, in those instances the country did not cheer those on or vote for that to happen to people (by the very people being served), nor did it come from a place of just intentionally wanting to make workers suffer and break our government. The people will pay more or less the same in taxes for a small, broken government. It is worth not overlooking those differences.

Fully agree on the final point.

Fed workers pay ZERO Fed taxes on a macro basis on their pay checks The are just paying ther Fed back with their own money. For instance I did work for the Fed briefly, Actually well paid. 240K income. Of that 240K income I paid Fed taxes But it was really just the Feds money I was giving back. My next job was a German Company, same pay. I paid Fed taxes but the money came from Germany. All profit for Fed.

Are you high?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You must not be a step-parent OP.

Excellent point. Really offensive, op

OMG, stop being so offended, we left that in 2024. Sorry, there are many examples of terrible step parents who treat their step kids like crap. It happens, it’s an analogy, blame Disney.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump admin = Death Angel
Voters = Suicidal pilot
Fed Employers = Helpless passengers on the plane

And they’re stuck in the toilet...all of them...and they all have diarrhea...and the latch is broke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Voters voted for Trump. Many of them want this. They are not the same as simply turning away.

As bad as this is for feds, 2009 was worse for the private sector especially in certain industries. And then with covid, many other industries especially service ones either had to close or had to operate with a lot of exposure to covid.

Fair take.

[Anonymous]

I bet 99% of Americans have no idea what’s happening to Feds. Anytime someone asks me how I am- I breezily say, well I’m a Fed, things aren’t great. And most people have zero idea what I’m talking about. I don’t think it’s in the major news that feds are being fired. No one is talking about the cuts to research or academia. Feds only know about it because we’re looking for it.

It’s like people who say “social security has gotten so expensive, we need to rein in the fraud.” Except it’s so expensive because people are living longer. It’s very easy to say federal government has gotten so big, while ignoring that our population has risen too.

Oh and plenty of feds wanted changes. I’d love to be able to move between jobs and offices easier, they make it a slow miserable process. I’d love to get rid of poor performers easier. We need programs to be cut, not just people. How can we have the same amount of programs being worked on but 40% less people?? And 30% less money.

[Anonymous]

You don't need a dumb analogy.

Trump = con artist
Voters = morons
Federal Employees = civilization being destroyed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also I live near a lot of feds and while we were dealing with unemployment they were comparing their paid time off during months congress couldn't agree on a budget to the months we weren't getting paid. To say it was annoying to watch them have extended vacations year after year is an understatement.

It's obviously stupid for anyone in this area to be against government, but generally most people have seen the government have many fewer employment issues to deal with than the private sector. In rural areas some jobs have completely dried up. Their analogy is that the rich ignore and make fun of the workers that make them stuff to use.

Race to the bottom, dipshit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump Admin = McDonald’s burger
Voters = McDonald’s customer
Fed workers = health inspectors

Enjoy your e coli, moron