Anonymous
Post 03/16/2025 22:44     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There’s a major shortage in accounting


Which is about to easily get wiped out by AI.


I don’t think so. AI is not close to being able to do partnership returns, corporate returns, tax planning for a business, or an host of other things a good CPA can do. AI isn’t close to being about to do even basic reconciliation in quickbooks. It’s nearly impossible to find a competent bookkeeper at all. The big payroll providers make mistakes left and right. That wouldn’t be happening if AI was as amazing as they say.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2025 18:22     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Probably in the service jobs mass deportation will free up. Literally, that’s the only thing I can come up with and it’s grim.


My kid works at Target and has hardly gotten any hours the past few weeks. Corporate keeps cutting payroll because they aren't making their sales goals.

A friend owns a local shop, and she let go all of her employees except for her manager. She, her sister (co-owner), and the store manager are running things now. I expect to see this a lot more with local establishments. It makes me sad.

I even noticed Wegmans isn't working as many employees on the weekends as in the past.

The economy is hurting all types of businesses. If people don't spend, there's no need to have an employee in those service industry jobs.


Target is being boycotted due to their rescinded DEI policies. I am spending $ I normally spend there elsewhere.


So am I. I haven't shopped there since Jan. 14. I was a shopper one to two times per week. I logged into my account out of curiosity to see my purchase history. I spent $732.14 for December, which likely tracks the same or more for other months. Not shopping there has been a lot easier than I thought it would be. I can get bulk household supplies from Home Depot and have found workarounds for items I thought I could only get from Target. Even when this passes, I will likely keep doing what I am doing. Target really effed up this time.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2025 18:01     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Elder care? Could be affected by Medicaid cuts but the demand for the services will always be there. Chronically understaffed and the squeeze on immigrants is making labor shortages even worse. Not glamorous, not well paying but would serve a critical need in our society.


So you want high paid professionals to go make minimum wage in a job you wouldn't do. Got it.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2025 17:31     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I kind of wonder what the enrollment impact will be on our public schools when families find themselves unable to afford private tuition too


That's one of the positive outcomes in my opinion. Private schools locally will tank, there are too many anyhow, and when you have educated parents reinvolved with public schools they will flourish.

Plus, super easy to become a substitute teacher to make a least part of the money to pay bills.


I agree. Less privates = better education.



Lol. It’s fewer, not less. You must have gone to public school.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2025 16:17     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I kind of wonder what the enrollment impact will be on our public schools when families find themselves unable to afford private tuition too


That's one of the positive outcomes in my opinion. Private schools locally will tank, there are too many anyhow, and when you have educated parents reinvolved with public schools they will flourish.

Plus, super easy to become a substitute teacher to make a least part of the money to pay bills.


I agree. Less privates = better education.


I suppose, though the philosophy of “I hope people will lose their jobs so they have to face the same torture as me and the gene pool will be improved” is kinda wonky.

I have no desire to pay $45k per head to send my kids to private school. I would far rather have them in public. But public schools these days, in a word, suck. And I’d rather pay the money than get stressed out.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2025 16:14     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.



I realize this is a fact less post, but I know 0 Feds who have beach homes or swimming pools, unless the homes were inherited from families, or the pools are attached to older homes acquired before Covid. Feds are generally the poorer families in the dinky homes.

Not. Even. Close.

You guys have a cushy job with a cushy retirement with a sweet pension.

Try hustling at $20/hr.


I’m not a Fed. I’m the one in a large $2m new build seeing Feds in their dinky older homes and thinking it makes no sense to be jealous of them. But I guess if you are far below them, then they’re the ones you’re jealous of…
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2025 16:02     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:There’s a major shortage in accounting


Which is about to easily get wiped out by AI.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2025 15:47     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
The posters who keep posting retail and labor jobs aren’t being tongue in cheek. Those are going to be the ONLY jobs left. Trump is dumbing the economy way down. We’re going to be much like Russia soon.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2025 15:04     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Whole Foods is always looking for help
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2025 23:34     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
There’s a major shortage in accounting
Anonymous
Post 03/14/2025 22:36     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Another thought. My daughter is getting her master's in accounting. She has people in her class that have other degrees, and they are doing a bridge program that includes the 6 GAAP required courses plus the MAcc courses. It can be done in 18-24 months. That will get you on your way to be CPA eligible.


Can you name the programs for both bridge and masters? In-person or online?
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2025 14:29     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Probably in the service jobs mass deportation will free up. Literally, that’s the only thing I can come up with and it’s grim.


My kid works at Target and has hardly gotten any hours the past few weeks. Corporate keeps cutting payroll because they aren't making their sales goals.

A friend owns a local shop, and she let go all of her employees except for her manager. She, her sister (co-owner), and the store manager are running things now. I expect to see this a lot more with local establishments. It makes me sad.

I even noticed Wegmans isn't working as many employees on the weekends as in the past.

The economy is hurting all types of businesses. If people don't spend, there's no need to have an employee in those service industry jobs.


Target is being boycotted due to their rescinded DEI policies. I am spending $ I normally spend there elsewhere.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2025 14:24     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Time to be an entrepreneur. Work for yourself - if you are youngish. If you are over 45 and ACA gets axed, you won't be able to avoid health insurance.

If you are over 45, you're f'd.


Work for yourself doing what?
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2025 14:23     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am all for increasing efficiency and not tolerating poor performance (to be clear, I think those cases are uncommon), but it seems to be that a slower, more measured approach to reducing government size would’ve been more effective. I am genuinely confused when these huge swaths of people are supposed to find employment - especially when the private sector / contractors are also doing layoffs.

What is the plan? We as a country also can’t sustain a significant chunk of the population being out of work…


You sound rather simple..there is no plan other than to give a tax cut to the rich. Sounds like we have you to thank for it.


Darling, you sound really angry. I can assure you I am not to thank for this current situation. Hope your miserable life gets better.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2025 12:08     Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
If the lawyers have to go into doc review watch that become minimum wage