Government Shutdown - Sep 2025 Thread

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:y'al about to get fired. Hope you have a plan b.

I hope I get fired. I don’t want to work for these jackasses a minute longer. Today’s email was the last straw.

+1. A mass firing is fine with me. I’ve got enough saved to last and am willing to move anywhere for any kind of job. I know I didn’t lose my job because of my performance. I lost it because Voight is an ass.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ours had a weird paragraph ay the bottom blaming the dems for the shutdown. Just seems like an odd thing to include in a work email.

You think the truth is an odd thing to include in a work email? Says a lot about how you usually do business.

Go away, troll.

I've worked for the government for decades and never seen such blatant political statements in a broadcast email in my life. Blatant Hatch act violation but laws don't matter any more.

While I completely agree that it was inappropriate and irrelevant, I doubt it’s a Hatch Act violation. Sounds like everyone got the same paragraph so it was flowed down from the WH.

Ugh… that’s irrelevant to the Hatch Act. Laws don’t magically go away because the President broke them. How are people so ignorant? This is how we got here. 🤦‍♀️

The president and vice president are exempt from the Hatch Act.

They didn’t sign the emails the departments sent out.

Correct. Ours was signed by someone subject to the Hatch Act.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:y'al about to get fired. Hope you have a plan b.

I hope I get fired. I don’t want to work for these jackasses a minute longer. Today’s email was the last straw.

+1. A mass firing is fine with me. I’ve got enough saved to last and am willing to move anywhere for any kind of job. I know I didn’t lose my job because of my performance. I lost it because Voight is an ass.

+2 They can fire me as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:y'al about to get fired. Hope you have a plan b.

I hope I get fired. I don’t want to work for these jackasses a minute longer. Today’s email was the last straw.

+1. A mass firing is fine with me. I’ve got enough saved to last and am willing to move anywhere for any kind of job. I know I didn’t lose my job because of my performance. I lost it because Voight is an ass.

+2 They can fire me as well.

Excepted employee here. Getting fired sounds nice, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:y'al about to get fired. Hope you have a plan b.

I hope I get fired. I don’t want to work for these jackasses a minute longer. Today’s email was the last straw.

+1. A mass firing is fine with me. I’ve got enough saved to last and am willing to move anywhere for any kind of job. I know I didn’t lose my job because of my performance. I lost it because Voight is an ass.

+2 They can fire me as well.

+3 A RIF for me would mean a Discontinued Service Retirement; I have 27 years in. I did the math, and I would be fine. It might be time for a change of scenery, so I'd be open to selling my house and using the equity and savings to buy something for cash in a more affordable area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:y'al about to get fired. Hope you have a plan b.

I hope I get fired. I don’t want to work for these jackasses a minute longer. Today’s email was the last straw.

+1. A mass firing is fine with me. I’ve got enough saved to last and am willing to move anywhere for any kind of job. I know I didn’t lose my job because of my performance. I lost it because Voight is an ass.

I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one with these dark thoughts. I’m just so over it.

[Anonymous]

I don't want to be fired but my agency is saying RIFs will hit by mid-October so it's probably a matter of days either way. I'm an emotional mess tonight.

[Anonymous]

Remember the clowns/Anti Americans own the Senate, Presidency & House.

They own this.
Republicans, instead of paying down the National Debt are adding Gold to the WH while hard working Americans all over this country will lose healthcare, jobs, food and all freedoms.

All for christian Nationalism and a cheap orange mob con man. MR MEGA CHURCH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to be fired but my agency is saying RIFs will hit by mid-October so it's probably a matter of days either way. I'm an emotional mess tonight.

I don’t want to get fired and am very worried that all non-essential will get the boot. That would mean my agency would only have like half its staff but I think these ppl are capable of anything and everything. I feel sick with stress of not knowing how this will end. I don't want to see or talk to anyone when I have to go in for the 4hrs thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to be fired but my agency is saying RIFs will hit by mid-October so it's probably a matter of days either way. I'm an emotional mess tonight.

Which agency is this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:y'al about to get fired. Hope you have a plan b.

I hope I get fired. I don’t want to work for these jackasses a minute longer. Today’s email was the last straw.

+1. A mass firing is fine with me. I’ve got enough saved to last and am willing to move anywhere for any kind of job. I know I didn’t lose my job because of my performance. I lost it because Voight is an ass.

+2 They can fire me as well.

+3 A RIF for me would mean a Discontinued Service Retirement; I have 27 years in. I did the math, and I would be fine. It might be time for a change of scenery, so I'd be open to selling my house and using the equity and savings to buy something for cash in a more affordable area.

We purposely did not go on vacation this year (all of 2026) and stopped dining out as we are dual feds and don't know what's coming down the pike. Saved 6 months of living expenses in a bank account and another 6 months in a CD that will mature next spring.
Bring it.

[Anonymous]

How do you see the next Senate vote for tomorrow going?

[Anonymous]

The republicans control Congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority, like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once.

[Anonymous]

I still don't have word if I'm working tomorrow (I've always worked through shut downs).

At this point, whatever. I've been prepping for anything for almost a year now, I can take it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The republicans control Congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority, like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once.

The fact that they put a count down clock on the whitehouse.gov website signals to me that they want a shutdown.