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Obama staffers can’t find work in Trump’s DC: ‘There are no jobs’
The Blaze ^ | January 10th, 2017 | Tré Goins-Phillips

Posted on 01/10/2017 12:32:28 PM PST by Mount Athos

As outgoing President Barack Obama plans to head off on vacation when he vacates the White House next week, his staffers and appointees are struggling to find work in Washington, D.C.

Following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory and Republicans’ major electoral gains in November, outgoing Obama employees and loyalists to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have found their job prospects in the District foundering, according to Politico.

“It feels like there are just thousands of us trying to find a job, and there are no jobs,” longtime Clinton aide Mira Patel, who worked for Clinton in her Senate, State Department and 2016 campaign offices, told the outlet.

Following Trump’s surprise victory Nov. 8, Democratic operatives no longer have some 4,000 presidentially appointed jobs for which to apply when the billionaire businessman takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

The Democratic workers who were expecting to see a Clinton White House are reportedly finding the transition especially difficult:

Clinton aides appear to be having a harder time, both emotionally and practically.

“There’s anger, there’s frustration, there’s anxiety, there’s burnout,” said Russ Finkelstein, a managing director at Clearly Next and longtime progressive career guru (including as a founding team member at the lefty jobs board Idealist.org) who has been counseling Clinton alumni.

“People are in shock,” said Anastasia Kessler-Dellaccio, 35, who quit her job at Sister Cities International to run Foreign Policy Professionals for Hillary. Some Clinton campaign workers say they’ve lost their bearings because they’re so rattled by the differences in Trump’s values from those represented by Obama and Clinton.

Kessler-Dellaccio added, “I think people, myself included, are trying to figure out, ‘How do I recalibrate my dreams?’”

But it’s not all bad news. Laslo Bock, Google’s outgoing chief of human resources, has, according to the Wall Street Journal, established a database of résumés to help Obama staffers and Clinton advocates find work after their unexpected yet impending unemployment.

Given the dire situation some outgoing Obama staffers are in: “A lot of us are looking for any fit,” Patel said — the soon-to-be-former president is doing what he can to help his supporters find work in Trump’s Washington.

“The president made it a priority to ensure that, throughout his administration, employees had access to professional development resources and tools to help them advance in their careers and transition to new opportunities,” White House spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine told Politico, describing Obama as “extremely grateful” to those staffers who have stayed with him over the years.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics
KEYWORDS: americawinsagain; schadenboner; schadenfreude; trumpstillwinning
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1 posted on 01/10/2017 12:32:28 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Much appreciated.


2 posted on 01/10/2017 12:33:21 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Mount Athos

That’s what happens when there’s big change in DC.


3 posted on 01/10/2017 12:34:22 PM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: Mount Athos

Aw that’s a shame.


4 posted on 01/10/2017 12:35:04 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Mount Athos

try mexico.


5 posted on 01/10/2017 12:35:06 PM PST by dadfly
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To: Mount Athos

What, are they too good to paint address numbers on street curbs? I may not have liked it, but that put food on the table at one point in my life.


6 posted on 01/10/2017 12:35:44 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Mount Athos

Trump’s Hotel might be hiring some maids


7 posted on 01/10/2017 12:35:51 PM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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To: Mount Athos

how about Chicago


8 posted on 01/10/2017 12:36:19 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Mount Athos

“”It feels like there are just thousands of us trying to find a job, and there are no jobs,” longtime Clinton aide Mira Patel,”

Welcome to the party....bit@h.


9 posted on 01/10/2017 12:36:20 PM PST by DesertRhino
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To: Mount Athos

YIPPEE!!!

let them suffer the same Unemployment they forced on millions and millions of the rest of us the last 8 years


10 posted on 01/10/2017 12:36:22 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Mount Athos

11 posted on 01/10/2017 12:36:26 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Mount Athos

Agriculture is always looking for good produce pickers.


12 posted on 01/10/2017 12:36:49 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: Mount Athos

major snowflake butthurt.


13 posted on 01/10/2017 12:37:00 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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‘How do I recalibrate my dreams?’

Practice saying, "You want fries with that?"

14 posted on 01/10/2017 12:37:20 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Mount Athos

If any of these Quislings find work in the Trump administration, shame on the Trump administration.


15 posted on 01/10/2017 12:37:52 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Mount Athos
Kessler-Dellaccio added, “I think people, myself included, are trying to figure out, ‘How do I recalibrate my dreams?’”

Who in the hell talks like that? (rhetorical question) How about coming back to reality for starters..?

16 posted on 01/10/2017 12:37:55 PM PST by Envisioning (Call me a racist, one more time......)
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To: Mount Athos

Oh, c’mon. They can compete with illegal aliens for lots of shovel-ready Obama jobs—just like everyone else.


17 posted on 01/10/2017 12:38:09 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Mount Athos

Yup, it’s a tough titty to be off the gravy train.


18 posted on 01/10/2017 12:38:31 PM PST by georgiegirl (Count me in the half that's in the Deplorable Basket)
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To: Mount Athos

Even so...drain it some more!
Can’t hurt! Us, anyway!
;)
It’s a me/them sit, still...double drain...
Semper President Trump!
Dick.G: RED!
aka: Gunny G
++++++++++
Retired, Extreme Deplorable/RED!
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19 posted on 01/10/2017 12:39:14 PM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Mount Athos

I can relate. I was a military contractor when Obama took office 8 years ago. They cancelled several of the large projects and the contractors laid off hundreds of people locally. There were no jobs and I went from a high paid engineer to a part time, temporary sales associate at Lowes.


20 posted on 01/10/2017 12:40:38 PM PST by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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