"Patel? F You!"
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.
Tucker brought Glenn Beck on his show last night.
LOL.
Beck has developed more chins than in a Chinese phone book.
Winning!! Exhausted from so much winning!
I laugh at these LIB moonbats and asshats who are or soon will be unemployed. If you own a business you would have to be an idiot, demented or severely brain damaged to hire one of these LIB losers. Why would you hire a pompous a**? Why would you hire someone who hates you? I laugh at their plight. I ridicule their existence.
Things have gotten so bad for Obama and Clinton staffers that they are now interviewing for jobs that require actual work
I was terrible in my last several interviews in the private sector. No matter how I answered their questions to the best of my ability, I was told my resume and qualifications were "too strong" for the position.
It got to the point where I asked the HR specialist for tips on "dumbing down my resume"...that question didn't go over so well.
A big smile, indeed. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.
The great irony is that these snowflakes and cupcakes actually expected the Clintons and Obamas to “take care of them” once they left office. When, in the name of heaven, have Barry, Bill, Hill, or Michelle taken care of anyone except themselves?
Guess a lot of true believers are gonna find out just how much value the market actually assigns to those degrees public policy, urban studies and gender studies. And making matters worse, they are discovering that Zero not only destroyed their party, he also damaged infrastructure that supported it, namely state/local Democrat parties, think tanks and progressive media.
Not that Obama’s worried. Some of the unemployed ex-staffers may get a Christmas card later this year, along with an appeal to donate to his presidential library and community organizing center.
Glenn’s media empire is on its last legs. Fortunately, most of the hosts have picked up various side hustles, such as Buck Sexton filling in for Rush, and Dana working as a Fox News contributor. But the rank and file employees still on the payroll will almost certainly lose their jobs later this year.
Meanwhile, Glenn still has his seven-figure annual gig with Premier Radio, which syndicates his daily radio show. So, he’ll be just fine while his former employees scramble for a new gig.
Now, that you mention it, I don’t think I have ever heard talk like that. Am I missing anything? Nah! Don’t think so.
Try kalifornia. It worked for holder.
There's that, of course. The big change, though, is the Presidential appointees, and their myriad suckups, sycophants, and hangers-on. If any of those worthless bastards weasel their way into the Trump administration, they'll be nothing but trouble.
Cue the Boo Hoo Girl! :-)
Thank you. It sure brought a smile to my face. Now, these hacks can experience what the rest of the country has gone through the past 8 years while they lived high on taxpayer’s dollars.
‘How do I recalibrate my dreams?’”
with a micrometer. You should have a bunch of cash after your unload the two BMWs in the driveway and the house. Start a business.
Her last name is Patel, and she can't find a job?
They didn’t know their jobs had a limited lifespan? That goes with that territory.
"Patel? F You!"
Lol!
The interview process can be a minefield. Sometimes due to the incompetence of the person doing the interview.
In the automotive buisness over the last 15 years it seems to be left to attractive 20 year olds that don’t know the difference between a Quarter Panel, and a Fender! Can be very frustrating.
Aren’t these the same morons who came up with the idiotic term “funemployment”? Now they can have their own fun.
She can’t find a job, with a BA from Wellesley and an MBA from Wharton? I call BS.
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