Anonymous
Post 03/07/2025 10:42     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:A lot of the whole “just relocate and get another job” rhetoric seems to assume that there is only one breadwinner. Lots of us went through contortions to set up a situation with two jobs in the same area, semi reasonable commutes, a workable daycare arrangement, maybe even some staggered hours so we could share the load. It’s a delicate balance that took a ton of tinkering and even some sacrifices to construct (ie “not my ideal job but a reasonable commutes” etc.) Then some idiot blows the whole thing up and things we can just get another similar siowith all of those pieces. Darned near impossible!!!


The double income career kids (dick) model should be rethought. It only works in certain areas that are going to be in the red zone for housing and standard of living. Though with remote work it might have started to make more sense. My wife decided she didn't want the career. Can't blame her, but this is why we moved here, and I ended up with a series of sub optimal jobs, but now she has a job that barely pays for kids babysitting tuition and wants to move somewhere else. We could have had a higher standard of living somewhere else without all of the traffic and what not. The schools would have been better also. The planets only partially aligned for us.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2025 09:50     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:1.5 million people lost their job in like a 60 day period in Financial Crisis and I dont recall anyone in Govt caring

114 million people lost their job in 2020 due to Covid and I dont recall govt workers caring.

I was out of work in Covid with two kids in college laid off and I recall govt workers on the block throwing parties, going to their beach house, sleeping in late swimming in their pool getting full pay for doing nothing all day.

Even if every Fed lost their job there are only 2 million. A rounding error compared to Covid or Financial Crisis.



Gosh, what I find sad about the glee in this post is that the firings so far have disproportionately affected younger professionals, who like your own kids, were in college or trying to start a career during the pandemic. This is terrible for our generation of kids. I teach high school science and know of at least one (brilliant) former student who was fired. What’s happening with science and research is two-fold because not only are the federal agencies being targeted, the funding is getting cut off too, which funds science positions at universities and elsewhere. It’s very sad.

FWIW, maybe you just live in a fancier neighborhood than me but I have a lot of Fed neighbors (and a Fed spouse) and don’t know any with their own beach house (or a big enough yard for a pool-ha). And big block parties were considered super-spreaders. But again, sounds like we live in different areas.


You’re responding to a troll. They said 114 million people lost their jobs during covid. lol.


Eh that PP sounds an awful like my bitter ILs and their friends. We-are-miserable-everyone-else-should-be-too.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2025 09:43     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:A lot of the whole “just relocate and get another job” rhetoric seems to assume that there is only one breadwinner. Lots of us went through contortions to set up a situation with two jobs in the same area, semi reasonable commutes, a workable daycare arrangement, maybe even some staggered hours so we could share the load. It’s a delicate balance that took a ton of tinkering and even some sacrifices to construct (ie “not my ideal job but a reasonable commutes” etc.) Then some idiot blows the whole thing up and things we can just get another similar siowith all of those pieces. Darned near impossible!!!


But don’t forget to have more babies!
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2025 07:15     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
A lot of the whole “just relocate and get another job” rhetoric seems to assume that there is only one breadwinner. Lots of us went through contortions to set up a situation with two jobs in the same area, semi reasonable commutes, a workable daycare arrangement, maybe even some staggered hours so we could share the load. It’s a delicate balance that took a ton of tinkering and even some sacrifices to construct (ie “not my ideal job but a reasonable commutes” etc.) Then some idiot blows the whole thing up and things we can just get another similar siowith all of those pieces. Darned near impossible!!!
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 16:20     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:I work in IT as a federal government contractor, and my employer is still hiring for people with technical skills. The problem with hiring Fed employees is that "most" of them just do not have the technical skills to do the work. Where I am at, we have 40% Fed and 60% contractors. The fed folks just perform the oversight of the contractor folks, and they do not have the technical skills to do the job should all contractors are terminated. Many of the Feds are staying past their time. YMMV.


IT is well-known as an area fed gov is lacking on the employee side. Pay is one of but not the only reason. This current purge isn’t exactly making it an ideal destination for our future generations if probationary IT employees are axed or including in RIFs.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 16:05     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
I work in IT as a federal government contractor, and my employer is still hiring for people with technical skills. The problem with hiring Fed employees is that "most" of them just do not have the technical skills to do the work. Where I am at, we have 40% Fed and 60% contractors. The fed folks just perform the oversight of the contractor folks, and they do not have the technical skills to do the job should all contractors are terminated. Many of the Feds are staying past their time. YMMV.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 15:40     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:1.5 million people lost their job in like a 60 day period in Financial Crisis and I dont recall anyone in Govt caring

114 million people lost their job in 2020 due to Covid and I dont recall govt workers caring.

I was out of work in Covid with two kids in college laid off and I recall govt workers on the block throwing parties, going to their beach house, sleeping in late swimming in their pool getting full pay for doing nothing all day.

Even if every Fed lost their job there are only 2 million. A rounding error compared to Covid or Financial Crisis.



Gosh, what I find sad about the glee in this post is that the firings so far have disproportionately affected younger professionals, who like your own kids, were in college or trying to start a career during the pandemic. This is terrible for our generation of kids. I teach high school science and know of at least one (brilliant) former student who was fired. What’s happening with science and research is two-fold because not only are the federal agencies being targeted, the funding is getting cut off too, which funds science positions at universities and elsewhere. It’s very sad.

FWIW, maybe you just live in a fancier neighborhood than me but I have a lot of Fed neighbors (and a Fed spouse) and don’t know any with their own beach house (or a big enough yard for a pool-ha). And big block parties were considered super-spreaders. But again, sounds like we live in different areas.


You’re responding to a troll. They said 114 million people lost their jobs during covid. lol.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 15:19     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:1.5 million people lost their job in like a 60 day period in Financial Crisis and I dont recall anyone in Govt caring

114 million people lost their job in 2020 due to Covid and I dont recall govt workers caring.

I was out of work in Covid with two kids in college laid off and I recall govt workers on the block throwing parties, going to their beach house, sleeping in late swimming in their pool getting full pay for doing nothing all day.

Even if every Fed lost their job there are only 2 million. A rounding error compared to Covid or Financial Crisis.



Gosh, what I find sad about the glee in this post is that the firings so far have disproportionately affected younger professionals, who like your own kids, were in college or trying to start a career during the pandemic. This is terrible for our generation of kids. I teach high school science and know of at least one (brilliant) former student who was fired. What’s happening with science and research is two-fold because not only are the federal agencies being targeted, the funding is getting cut off too, which funds science positions at universities and elsewhere. It’s very sad.

FWIW, maybe you just live in a fancier neighborhood than me but I have a lot of Fed neighbors (and a Fed spouse) and don’t know any with their own beach house (or a big enough yard for a pool-ha). And big block parties were considered super-spreaders. But again, sounds like we live in different areas.


OP doesn’t clearly understand that 2 million fired feds also trickles down to contractors, universities, schools, hospitals, pizzerias, local supermarkets, housing, the local businesses in every state, etc. being affected because they also lose their jobs due to no one spending.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 14:16     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:1.5 million people lost their job in like a 60 day period in Financial Crisis and I dont recall anyone in Govt caring

114 million people lost their job in 2020 due to Covid and I dont recall govt workers caring.

I was out of work in Covid with two kids in college laid off and I recall govt workers on the block throwing parties, going to their beach house, sleeping in late swimming in their pool getting full pay for doing nothing all day.

Even if every Fed lost their job there are only 2 million. A rounding error compared to Covid or Financial Crisis.



Gosh, what I find sad about the glee in this post is that the firings so far have disproportionately affected younger professionals, who like your own kids, were in college or trying to start a career during the pandemic. This is terrible for our generation of kids. I teach high school science and know of at least one (brilliant) former student who was fired. What’s happening with science and research is two-fold because not only are the federal agencies being targeted, the funding is getting cut off too, which funds science positions at universities and elsewhere. It’s very sad.

FWIW, maybe you just live in a fancier neighborhood than me but I have a lot of Fed neighbors (and a Fed spouse) and don’t know any with their own beach house (or a big enough yard for a pool-ha). And big block parties were considered super-spreaders. But again, sounds like we live in different areas.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 12:58     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Job layoffs in February 2025 were the highest level since July 2020.

Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 12:19     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is not like industry layoffs. They are dismantling your government. You may not care about federal employees as individuals but I am surprised at the lack of concern about what this means.

Most Feds will find employment, perhaps not in the cities they are in at the current moment, but the longer term problem is the brain drain.

I think a great many people feel the federal government is substantially bloated and don’t view it the same way as you.


A great many people think that mice can be transgender and that “150 year olds” are receiving social security. So I’m not sure this is quite the argument you think it is.


Haha. I was thinking the same thing.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 12:08     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Gov. Moore said last week that MD will fast-track qualified and cleared former feds into teaching certification, but I can't find anything about this on maryland dot gov.


I think they're still working on it. We're not even that far into this disaster. I believe VA was also trying to recruit former feds as teachers, maybe it was ACPS?
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 11:56     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:I don't think the whole "the federal government was fine, there's nothing to reduce" crowd is doing themselves any favors. It just makes them look ridiculous. We all know there is a huge amount of government waste, as well as spending on things that are not priorities for most Americans. Keep singing that tune, though -- I'm happy for Dems to keep telling voters the issue is their lying eyes.


Please find me posts saying everything was perfectly fine and there was nothing to reduce posts … I’ll wait.

I’ve been a fed for 15 years and if anyone had ever bothered to ask workers like me where to cut or reallocate resources I would have given them a TON of ideas. I don’t know anyone I work with who would claim everything was fine and should operate as is.

The problem is we aren’t improving government, it’s being gutted. And there isn’t massive fraud being going — it’s all either lies, things Musk personally doesn’t like although it has been funded by Congress, or maneuvers to give contracts to Musk’s companies.

But it’s been packaged up as a shiny object. I mean who can object to finding fraud, waste, and abuse right? If you don’t dig past surface level and have a very shallow level of knowledge, then you think this is all great.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 11:40     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Gov. Moore said last week that MD will fast-track qualified and cleared former feds into teaching certification, but I can't find anything about this on maryland dot gov.


I hope they don't do that without some education classes. We have some second career teachers and most aren't very good, a few.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2025 11:38     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:I don't think the whole "the federal government was fine, there's nothing to reduce" crowd is doing themselves any favors. It just makes them look ridiculous. We all know there is a huge amount of government waste, as well as spending on things that are not priorities for most Americans. Keep singing that tune, though -- I'm happy for Dems to keep telling voters the issue is their lying eyes.


Nice straw man. No one think an everything is fine, especially Feds, who have the best view of what the problems are. But no one asks us! We do as we are told and wait for real leadership that is interested in fixing things to show up.