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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a sibling (incidentally a Republican but not a Trump supporter) who spent their whole career — 40 years — as a fed in one agency because they believed the work was inportant.  The agency is now being drstpyed, my sibling is retiring and I think it is permanently affecting their outlook on life to feel that their life’s work is being dismantled in this way.  It’s all very sad and it’s okay to feel sad about it.   It’s normal to be upset and I wouldn’t expect that feeling to ever go away, although you may learn to live with it differently as time passes.  [/quote]

Just for fun , imagine you have worked hard for 20 years and were very good at your job , and then the company fired an entire division suddenly , and then the next week a group of H1bs from
Indian companies showed up to take their place .   And then imagine that when you expressed your the opinion that h1b is not good for US citizens  , you heard that others in the community did not care and thought h1b was great because we had a worker shortage

I really do have sympathy for your situation , next election join in the fight and let’s elect leaders that will promote policies that help US workers first and not h1bs and opts [/quote]

DP, but I don’t think I know anyone who thinks h1b workers were a great thing. We all knew it was so rich people could save money on labor costs. There’s never been any pretext (at least widespread that I know of) that this was some sort of good for the American people.

Meanwhile the absolute vitriol toward feds and cheering of the destruction of federal programs by many of our fellow Americans has been disgusting. Imagine worshipping billionaires who would gladly leave you for dead on a street corner if it meant increasing their net worth by .01% while celebrating some GS-11 getting RIF’d. [/quote]

I've never met anyone who wasn't an h1b visa holder who supported the program, and I'm a liberal Democrat. It exists to make wealthy people even more wealthy by abusing their workforce.

I'm really sad that so many Americans hate federal and state employees. [b]Worked for years to make life better for my fellow citizens at a salary lower than private industry and this is what happens? [/b]

The federal / state government mission and job security were two of the only things keeping me in government jobs recently, and now those two motivations are gone. [/quote]

I’ve worked with a ton of federal workers at different agencies.  I went into these jobs thinking the majority were good people who wanted to help the country; over time I came to realize that those employees are a small fraction of the government employees out there.  The majority I worked with were lazy and incompetent.  Unfortunately as many have mentioned the ridiculous way this was handled won’t help to keep the good ones and eliminate the bad ones; probably the opposite as the good ones have marketable skills.[/quote]

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