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Anonymous wrote:DEI jobs were fabricated by bidens orders so it's no surprise it can go away

I’m a moderate liberal fed employee and I agree with this. When my agency started creating DEI positions in 2021, I assumed they would go away in the next GOP administration, which I assumed would be DeSantis. That is why I’m not convinced that the DEI cuts help to predict any larger cuts to the federal workforce. Sure, there may be huge cuts later this year, but DEI was the lowest hanging fruit.

+1. DEI literally promotes discrimination. You can't promote race and gender based discrimination and expect it to be a long term gig. Come on now. The courts have been clear that it's illegal to discriminate against anyone for race or gender, and that these protections are not only for minorities. It's literally in the constitution that we are all equal.

All of this "it's only one group being targeted" or "I planned better!" has some serious "surely, the leopard won't eat MY face" energy.

Keep it up and see what happens in 2028. You can't do anything you want and expect to win. If something (like DEI) is divisive and counterproductive, then give it up! Don't spewing stupid slogans about leopards eating faces. This election will have a lot of outcomes, but it's incrediblely unlikely that an actual leopard will eat my face. Find a real argument.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody got fired. They’re on admin leave with full pay and benefits. Boo hoo.

For a couple weeks, then they will get let go. These are American jobs and you are mocking them?! Where is your humanity?

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Anonymous wrote:DEI jobs were fabricated by bidens orders so it's no surprise it can go away

I’m a moderate liberal fed employee and I agree with this. When my agency started creating DEI positions in 2021, I assumed they would go away in the next GOP administration, which I assumed would be DeSantis. That is why I’m not convinced that the DEI cuts help to predict any larger cuts to the federal workforce. Sure, there may be huge cuts later this year, but DEI was the lowest hanging fruit.

+1. DEI literally promotes discrimination. You can't promote race and gender based discrimination and expect it to be a long term gig. Come on now. The courts have been clear that it's illegal to discriminate against anyone for race or gender, and that these protections are not only for minorities. It's literally in the constitution that we are all equal.

All of this "it's only one group being targeted" or "I planned better!" has some serious "surely, the leopard won't eat MY face" energy.

Keep it up and see what happens in 2028. You can't do anything you want and expect to win. If something (like DEI) is divisive and counterproductive, then give it up! Don't spewing stupid slogans about leopards eating faces. This election will have a lot of outcomes, but it's incrediblely unlikely that an actual leopard will eat my face. Find a real argument.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DEI jobs were fabricated by bidens orders so it's no surprise it can go away

I’m a moderate liberal fed employee and I agree with this. When my agency started creating DEI positions in 2021, I assumed they would go away in the next GOP administration, which I assumed would be DeSantis. That is why I’m not convinced that the DEI cuts help to predict any larger cuts to the federal workforce. Sure, there may be huge cuts later this year, but DEI was the lowest hanging fruit.

+1. DEI literally promotes discrimination. You can't promote race and gender based discrimination and expect it to be a long term gig. Come on now. The courts have been clear that it's illegal to discriminate against anyone for race or gender, and that these protections are not only for minorities. It's literally in the constitution that we are all equal.

All of this "it's only one group being targeted" or "I planned better!" has some serious "surely, the leopard won't eat MY face" energy.

Anonymous wrote:Trump is establishing dominance, and it’s beautiful.

If you’re on record as DEI or Democrat, you’re going to go through some things .

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Anonymous wrote:In case you missed it in all the other news, all of USAID programs have a stop work order, with a few exceptions. The horrible thing is the work stops - no training midwives to respond to women hemorrhaging in childbirth, no rabies vaccination campaign, no Malaria bednet distribution. People will die.

But in addition, all of the thousands of us who implement this work just had our jobs…what? Frozen? Ended? If there is no money our NGOs can’t pay us. This isn’t the for-profit sector. There are no reserves or profit to keep people on for two weeks, let alone the three months given for this spending freeze.

I think the Trump administration just drove a stake through the heart of international public health and development, which of course was the point. My career of over 20 years may be over.

I'm sorry. This is truly devastating. At a strategic level, China is ready to step into the vacuum left by this decision, and will yield even more influence abroad. And we just handed it to them.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not worried either. I bring value to the table, and if they don’t want it, I’ll be fine in corporate or I will figure something else out. I believe in what I do for the good of the public, if the new leadership doesn’t (and I can’t say whether they do or not yet) I am not sure I want to stay around anyway. To the poster above, the private sector and other countries will step in where the U.S. exits. Your career isn’t over. It’s just different.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI jobs were fabricated by bidens orders so it's no surprise it can go away

I’m a moderate liberal fed employee and I agree with this. When my agency started creating DEI positions in 2021, I assumed they would go away in the next GOP administration, which I assumed would be DeSantis. That is why I’m not convinced that the DEI cuts help to predict any larger cuts to the federal workforce. Sure, there may be huge cuts later this year, but DEI was the lowest hanging fruit.

+1. DEI literally promotes discrimination. You can't promote race and gender based discrimination and expect it to be a long term gig. Come on now. The courts have been clear that it's illegal to discriminate against anyone for race or gender, and that these protections are not only for minorities. It's literally in the constitution that we are all equal.

Anonymous wrote:In case you missed it in all the other news, all of USAID programs have a stop work order, with a few exceptions. The horrible thing is the work stops - no training midwives to respond to women hemorrhaging in childbirth, no rabies vaccination campaign, no Malaria bednet distribution. People will die.

But in addition, all of the thousands of us who implement this work just had our jobs…what? Frozen? Ended? If there is no money our NGOs can’t pay us. This isn’t the for-profit sector. There are no reserves or profit to keep people on for two weeks, let alone the three months given for this spending freeze.

I think the Trump administration just drove a stake through the heart of international public health and development, which of course was the point. My career of over 20 years may be over.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI jobs were fabricated by bidens orders so it's no surprise it can go away

I’m a moderate liberal fed employee and I agree with this. When my agency started creating DEI positions in 2021, I assumed they would go away in the next GOP administration, which I assumed would be DeSantis. That is why I’m not convinced that the DEI cuts help to predict any larger cuts to the federal workforce. Sure, there may be huge cuts later this year, but DEI was the lowest hanging fruit.

Anonymous wrote:So, they're talking about government employees being wasteful but then fired all the people who have the ability to investigate waste and fraud? Many of the Trump appointed in the first place.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone, we need to be worried about losing our jobs. Forget about telework for now. They let the DEI people go at the swipe of a pen. Any of us could be next. They could decide they do not like Intel analysts--gone. They don't like public affairs staff--gone. And on and on.