Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:59     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:I did cry tonight in front of my first grader. This is it guys. The US is over. Or maybe it won't have ripple effects outside of DC .... /S


I think your latter conclusion is the correct one.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:58     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do we think the government will own up to how many people it eventually terminates this year? I suspect not, though I suppose that might be FOIA'able


Presumably we see something in the jobs numbers but I don’t know that that will be broken out by sector


This has got to be massive. The huge numbers of those who took the fork alone will drastically increase unemployment.

But these firings? These will be much much bigger. No one is going to have a job soon.

We are looking at The Great Depression 2.0 here folks.



The Forkers - if they weren’t fired today - are still technically employed, so they should increase the unemployment nos.


*shouldn’t*
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:57     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do we think the government will own up to how many people it eventually terminates this year? I suspect not, though I suppose that might be FOIA'able


Presumably we see something in the jobs numbers but I don’t know that that will be broken out by sector


This has got to be massive. The huge numbers of those who took the fork alone will drastically increase unemployment.

But these firings? These will be much much bigger. No one is going to have a job soon.

We are looking at The Great Depression 2.0 here folks.


No one is going to have a job just because some Feds are getting the ax? Really? Why do you think that?
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:57     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do we think the government will own up to how many people it eventually terminates this year? I suspect not, though I suppose that might be FOIA'able


Presumably we see something in the jobs numbers but I don’t know that that will be broken out by sector


This has got to be massive. The huge numbers of those who took the fork alone will drastically increase unemployment.

But these firings? These will be much much bigger. No one is going to have a job soon.

We are looking at The Great Depression 2.0 here folks.



The Forkers - if they weren’t fired today - are still technically employed, so they should increase the unemployment nos.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:56     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
I did cry tonight in front of my first grader. This is it guys. The US is over. Or maybe it won't have ripple effects outside of DC .... /S
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:54     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
I was trying to explain the situation to my son who is a first grader that all the 1st graders are put on the naughty list. He was about to cry after hearing this, then I changed my script to all the Kindergartners are on the naughty list…
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:46     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do we think the government will own up to how many people it eventually terminates this year? I suspect not, though I suppose that might be FOIA'able


Presumably we see something in the jobs numbers but I don’t know that that will be broken out by sector


This has got to be massive. The huge numbers of those who took the fork alone will drastically increase unemployment.

But these firings? These will be much much bigger. No one is going to have a job soon.

We are looking at The Great Depression 2.0 here folks.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:44     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DOE let go of most of their probationary staff today. It’s been a gut wrenching sort of day to tell smart STEM professionals who you recruited away from industry and who moved their families that they were being let go.


Department of Energy? Or are you one of those idiots who is calling ED DOE?


Considering they mentioned STEM, it’s obviously Energy. But how nice if you to preemptively call them an idiot. People in glass houses…
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:42     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:I heard secondhand that attorneys in the probationary period are exempt from the cuts. Is that correct?


Reports are that was true at SEC and maybe Treasury but not clear for anywhere else.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:39     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
I heard secondhand that attorneys in the probationary period are exempt from the cuts. Is that correct?
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:33     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DOE let go of most of their probationary staff today. It’s been a gut wrenching sort of day to tell smart STEM professionals who you recruited away from industry and who moved their families that they were being let go.


Department of Energy? Or are you one of those idiots who is calling ED DOE?


US Department of Energy. (Not PP).
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:31     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am anticipating a huge increase in deaths of despair. This is not right...lives are being ruined overnight.


X1000. I am close and not even probationary. This is all too much.


Please call 988 if you need to, and reach out to friends or neighbors. You aren’t alone in this and you will get through it
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:29     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:DOE let go of most of their probationary staff today. It’s been a gut wrenching sort of day to tell smart STEM professionals who you recruited away from industry and who moved their families that they were being let go.


Department of Energy? Or are you one of those idiots who is calling ED DOE?
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:27     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Nope, the annoying AF probationary 28 year old girlie in a GS-15 job at my agency did not in fact get fired today. I keep hoping that she will.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 22:24     Subject: Probationaries getting fired today
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know quite a few people at CFPB who were fired this week. They are not probationary and they were supposedly fired for cause. No severence. Maybe they can convince the state to offer them unemployment, but goes against everything civil service laws are supposed to protect against.


Sorry to be clear - just firing them with no notice, no severence, no consideration of years of service - that's what goes against civil service protections.


Does CFPB have a union?