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.
On my last interview, things were going swimmingly when a comment was made they were "concerned" about my lack of experience in a different area of accounting. One can only cram a portion of 25 years of experience into two pages.
In 45 seconds, I turned that around to "oh, we're sorry, you may have too much experience for this position.
This was back in 2009. Fortunately, the FDIC was ramping up, and I got a term position with them. In 10 months, I went from a GS-7 to a GS-13. Unfortunately, it was a term position, as I said, though I nearly got five years out of it.
You’re assuming too much.
What’s paint?
How do you hold the brush?
It is only a shock to those who relied on the lies the MSM was spreading about HRC being certain to win the election. When one would watch the Trump rallies with thousands of people versus those of Clinton, with hundreds, something was not right. The MSM and those who believed them were divorced from reality. (And still likely are to this day.)
What a rotten group of poisonous vipers. Their dreams of leftist utopia, with them in charge, smashed.
No wonder no one want these losers.
LMAO!!
Anyone too proud to clean toilets or sweep floors can starve to death for all I care.
Winning! Winning winning winning!!!
(The Never Trumpers and Dems never die. They just get smellier, snarl, whine more and look/act very depressed!)P>
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Wilbur Ross & Carl Ichan going to ‘restructure’ all federal employees under Trumps guidance. These 2 do not waste time or energy. They act fast and with ruthless efficiency
I’ll venture that about 800,000 Federal leeches will be looking for productive work within the next 4 years.
“There are no jobs”
These people are probably still wondering why the Democrats lost.
Aw that’s a shame.
A link to Fats Domino singing, “Ain’t that a shame!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfMlk1PwGU
This means fewer government employees wasting away the day on porn sites.
You could die and reduce the surplus white privilege population!
Painting house numbers on curbs is one of the most useful and noble jobs a man can have. People put their house numbers in the most random locations and use all sorts of artsy fartsy numbers that aren’t legible from the street. Working as a delivery person is infinitely easier in neighborhoods that have the numbers on the curb.
Did you get back into your field?
“When will the good news stop!!!???”
I’m not tired of winning yet, please don’t stop Mr. Trump. :-)
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