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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you differ from your friends politcally, you have to either stop discussing politics entirely or reahc a level of comfort in the inbetween - where you can joke, or see the other side, or at least understand the other person.  t a minimum, you have to know what they believe how they will respond and not engage.

You know how your friend feels about gov't workers - so this is not a friend you can go to with worries about losing your job or other pressures feds are under.  Is the person a good enough friend otherwise?  That's what you have to decide.

I have my high school reunion this weekend.  I'm from a rural area that is extremely red.  I'm pretty blue and have been since I was a kid.  We all know this about each other, even not having seen some of them for decades.  No one is going to bring up politics (I don't think).  Or if anyone does, I will smile blandly and ask about their mom, what are their kids doing, what do they do for fun, etc etc.  You just have to put it to the side.  [/quote]

In my friend’s case— and my parents’ case— I’d prefer to challenge THEM to put their devotion to Trump and his policies that go after the people they don’t like (Democrats, federal workers and minorities) aside. [/quote]

My husbands entire department at a Treasury subagency was just told they are being RIFed and lady I am going to pray for you. You are a provoking thesr fights[/quote]

Right and like with OP most people will have no idea nor any basis to judge whether the RIF is or isn't justified as to the whole subagency or any individual employees.

That's the problem with making ones friendships dependent upon what's going on in your professional life. Like OP implies she is doing with her friends.

OP is asking her friends to judge her worthiness to retain continued employment with the feds.  But they have no information to make that judgment.

Her friend told OP you're smart which is shorthand for reassuring her that she has nothing to worry about based on what the friend knows about op personally.

That's not good enough for OP.  She wants her friend to change political philosophies entirely which is tantamount to agreeing that ALL federal employees should essentially be protected from job cuts because....OP says so?

Rational people make judgments based on information.  Can OP rationally make the argument that most of the people she works with are providing the US taxpayer with good value in exchange for de facto lifetime job security of federal employment?

Of course not and she doesn't even try.

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