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Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

You seem to be suggesting that people in America should vote for what's best for the people in the DC metro area? Why would someone in Illinois vote so that DC area workers are employed by the government?

Do you not realize that most government employees do not live here??

You people are stunningly uninformed.

Anonymous wrote:As a 35 year tech exec, mostly in PE backed companies, I’ve been around too many RIFs to count. I’ve seen the good, bad and ugly in how they were executed. But I have NEVER seen one executed so cruelly, and where the cruelty was celebrated by so many, as this one. People have lost all perspective and sense of humanity.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

You seem to be suggesting that people in America should vote for what's best for the people in the DC metro area? Why would someone in Illinois vote so that DC area workers are employed by the government?

Anonymous wrote:Farmers suing over removal of climate data from government websites as they need and use it for business planning.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/climate/agriculture-farmer-website-data-lawsuit.html

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

This is NOT how you fire people in the private sector. If this is your experience, you've only worked at McDonald's.

Correct. I have been RIF'd twice. Received 2 months severance the first time and 4 months the second time and I was not a high-ranking employee by any means.

Anonymous wrote:Farmers suing over removal of climate data from government websites as they need and use it for business planning.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/climate/agriculture-farmer-website-data-lawsuit.html

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

except for companies run by idiots like Musk, the vast majority of companies value their workers and know how much is lost when they have to train new employees

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

I suspect what you really can’t grasp is public service and the concept that running a government is not at all like running a business.

Which still doesn’t entitle you to lifetime employment

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

I suspect what you really can’t grasp is public service and the concept that running a government is not at all like running a business.

Which still doesn’t entitle you to lifetime employment

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

This is NOT how you fire people in the private sector. If this is your experience, you've only worked at McDonald's.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job