Reply to Other feds just very depressed?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Other feds just very depressed?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the gleeful "cullers" do you have any capacity for empathy? Suppose you, whatever you do, were deemed "cullable" would you feel anything? [/quote]

Do you dissolve into a puddle of tears every time a company lays off staff?  This happens ALL the time in companies and corporations, across entire industries.

Remember covid when people lost their jobs, their businesses, their livelihoods?  [/quote]

This. Government workers were calm and relaxed while the government put restrictions in place on most private industries that put tons of people out of work (either officially or unofficially by simply not allowing them to work to get a paycheck). It’s long overdue that the bloat was cut from our federal government. I don’t agree with everything that Trump does but this one I’m looking forward to.

Many functions will likely move to the states anyway. So unless you’re doing something completely useless, you probably still have options if you live in a blue state. There will be some disruption but that’s life. [/quote]

You are so dense. Most gov workers were very sympathetic to those who couldn’t work because of the pandemic, and fully supported PPP, eviction freeze etc. it’s the incoming party that opposes all that (well except keeping PPP to help the bottom line, whoops can’t find my workers).

I am ALWAYS upset when a layoff happens, most especially when a profitable company lays off people to goose stock. [/quote]

If you were truly sympathetic to the people struggling in private industry then you would not have supported the shutdowns. It wasn’t that anyone “couldn’t” work because of the pandemic. It’s that the government (which is really just people - people like you) prohibited it. They prohibited people from going out and enjoying meals in restaurants, working out in gyms, etc. Supporting eviction freeze doesn’t help either since many small time landlords needed that money to live. The shutdowns were a disaster of government overreach and were the reason that so many people all lost their livelihoods and are in a horrible position now. All while government workers were safe. Forgive me for not being sympathetic to government workers now that they need to justify why they actually deserve their paycheck.[/quote]

Umm NP but the shut down decision-making had *nothing* to do with the rank and file feds. I and many of my coworkers were very against shut downs (once the initial ~6 months passed). We did not get any PPP loans. We still had to work (my agency didn’t give so much as an hour of admin leave). I had young kids at home (including a kindergartener doing virtual school) while DH and I staggered hours and stayed up late to get our work done. We rearranged our (not super huge) home to suddenly have 2 adults WAH full time.

Further shutdowns were largely imposed by local governments (the counties were the ones shutting down schools and businesses). And even within local governments it is a subset of employees with the powers to implement this. The average worker at any level of government has no control over this anymore than most private sector employees have control over corporate decisions.

I get you’re looking for excuses to not be sympathetic to feds and at this point I don’t care because clearly you’re just not going to gain any sympathy. But your pretzel logic is totally embarrassing for you.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics