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 Trumps 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 Trumps 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.
Theres anger, theres frustration, theres anxiety, theres 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 theyve lost their bearings because theyre so rattled by the differences in Trumps 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 its not all bad news. Laslo Bock, Googles 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 Trumps 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.
That is a hilarious gif! I’m taking that...:)
NSS
Yep. Made 6 figures in IT in 2008..got laid off and had to train replacement(Indian H1b)..u can check the disability box..after a year or two out of work your better off having Aids so you can check the disability box I guess..since then i’ve done construction, packed boxes, worked in a car wash, traded stocks to survive..now I work the ramp at the airport but am beginning a career in Aviation as a Pilot..which I gave up after 9/11 thanks to the ex..oh well..God has a strange way of working in someone’s life.
I say to the Obama staffers..Welcome to the real world aholes..your boss f’d up everything
To quote Mork from Ork: “Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arrrr.”
To quote Mork from Ork: “Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arrrr.”
Oh, you're being mean. He did once have a job, as a junior community organizer teaching others how to get by without working. About the only honest job he had, but he wasn't totally worthless.
You are hero. Watching a bunch a hacks whom have never had real jobs nor contributed in any meaningful way to their country or community complain that they can no longer suck on the government teat is simply priceless! Their economic “suffering” on top of their psychic pain is too much for me to enjoy all at once. I am going to have to pace myself....
Stage two will involve these young morons realizing that they actually possess no skills whatsoever - other than as paid political drones without the ability to produce or be held to consequences. There will be a long period of reckoning for these special little worms.
Too bad. Let them experience the depravation that the crappy policies of this government and their globalist puppet masters have inflicted on the American Citizens.
Better yet, let them leave for Germany, Ukraine, or anywhere in the Middle East and experience what they have inflicted on those people.
You are my hero. Watching a bunch a hacks whom have never had real jobs nor contributed in any meaningful way to their country or community complain that they can no longer suck on the government teat is simply priceless! Their economic suffering on top of their psychic pain is too much for me to enjoy all at once. I am going to have to pace myself....
Stage two will involve these young morons realizing that they actually possess no skills whatsoever - other than as paid political drones without the ability to produce or be held to consequences. There will be a long period of reckoning for these special little worms.
Oldie but goodie...
“Obama Wants to Determine Who Can Be a ‘Minister’
by Policy Issues Institute
October 7, 2011
http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-wants-to-determine-who-can-be-a-%E2%80%9Cminister%E2%80%9D/
Yes. It took four years, but I'm back to work as an engineer. I spent about two years unemployed and another two working temporary jobs. I can retire next year if I get laid off again.
WELCOME to the U.S. that you sonsofbitches have pressed upon
us for the past 8 years!
Good planning. I've been laid off 3-times in my life and it was always due to federal government actions of some kind. By the last time all the trauma was used up, it just felt good, lol.
Well, Good. Perhaps these cretins can find work in Pyongyang.
I’m one of those rare birds, a DC native. This isn’t new. Admins bring their own people who follow their own policies. All others go home.
Maybe now some of these elitists will go back to Nebraska or wherever and do some real work for real people. I’m not against policy wonks (having worked in a DC think tank, I was one), but living in DC, it is easy to lose touch with the real people of this country. I bet most of these Obama folks would do well to get their hands dirty again with the real people.
Once you realize that you don't need all the money you make to get by it's a little less stressful. My ex and I were both laid off within a few months of each other and I was living off my military retirement and using about 500 a month from my savings. We even managed to take a few trips in the RV without running up any debt.
Any business in DC with half a brain has a ‘red list’ (or something similar by another name) of people who are known rabble-rousers, paid shills, and/or otherwise on the payroll of someone who is directly hostile to them making a profit.
Seems they tend to make rather bad employees.
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