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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know some pretty high level people got notices. They were great employees... it's nothing at all against their quality of work. Literally just happened to be in the wrong assignment at the wrong time, that's it. I know they will be a huge gain for whoever picks them up in their next endeavor. [/quote]

BARF is this elon?[/quote]

Curious, why does that sound like something Elon would write to you? I would think he would be quite the opposite. Anyway, I was trying to convey empathy. One person in particular who was RIF'd was truly amazing at what they did, which was managerial in a non-controversial Bureau. I really can't believe it. [/quote]

What can’t you believe?

It’s time to wake up Trump and his sycophants are destroying the economy, science, US constitution! [/quote]

I hate to break it to you but 90% of Americans don't give a crap about any of this. They've all been through layoffs and firings and don't have any sympathy for the work or the people.[/quote]

Welcome to what non feds have dealt with for decades.

Good luck finding jobs. Companies are hiring h1b’s or offshoring. 
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Well, most people actually aren't getting fired in the private sector because of stupid reasons - most people aren't fired if they are super effective employees who are fulfilling the mission (and certainly aren't targettted when they BECAUSE they are those people) -- and most of the time the person in charge isn't doing it gleefully and telling them they were so terrible all along. Most of the time the firings aren't because the big boss wants to decimate the industry they are in[/quote]

Spoken like a true fed. Incredible how you work for taxpayers yet know…nothing? about the real world? Just terrifying. [/quote]

I've only worked in the private sector and never been a fed. 
But By stupid reasons i mean because someone is trying to destroy their work and the impact it has on the world . People in the private sector aren't fired because of a large lr egomaniacal desire to destroy their world usually  [/quote]

As someone who's always worked in the private sector, I have seen plenty of highly skilled and competent people laid off. Mass lay offs are tied to both performance and business lines. I've seen profitable business lines shut down because the company decided to go into a different direction. As someone who was laid off, I am sympathetic to what the fed employees are feeling and what they're going through. It's not a pain I wish on anyone.

The Clinton Administration laid off something like 350,000 feds back in the 1990s as part of budget cuts (funny how that is forgotten). The current administration is doubtlessly laying off many feds for ideological reasons, but many people agree with those reasons, not just one or two people. And there's probably some truth to that we have an excess of fed programs and [b]some were absolutely controversial and a lot of, say, USAID funding was spent on controversial schemes. [/b]And some fed agencies and people within the agencies did act like an ideological opposition/resistance to administrations they didn't like rather than proper neutral civil servants. We saw the boasts on here quite often. Are these layoffs part of the Trump administration's reminding the agencies of their "proper" place? Yes, certainly. [/quote]

If you look at some government programs/expenses in isolation, they may seem controversial. In context, most, if not all, make sense. Buying good will to the US or buying information. Reminds me of the scene in Zero Dark Thirty where the CIA employee says he needs $300K - and uses it to buy a car (Ferrari or Maserati or something) for a Kuwaiti who provided information about a telephone number that was eventually a key to finding bin laden. I have no clue if this part of the movie was accurate or fiction - but the point is someone looking at the $300k in isolation would think it was controversial - especially if the information had not panned out.[/quote]

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