“I am wondering if these government employees truly understand how much the country really doesn’t care? “
No need to wonder. Since the end of Reagan’s presidency private sector employees have experienced the job killing impacts of technology (personal computers and the Internet) and globalist one sided free trade policies resulting in the deindustrialization of the U.S. and the loss of millions of middle class jobs. At the same time federal government direct employment, and employment at NGO’s, lobbying firms, consulting firms and law firms dependent on government spending exploded.
Politicians and federal bureaucrats told jobless private sector employees to “learn to code” while at the same time greasing the tracks for hundreds of thousands of foreign IT workers to obtain work visas to take those coding jobs.
To the extent people care about fired government workers, it is a feeling these cuts were long overdue.
WE know all that as we experienced it, but these government employees took jobs thinking they would never be ‘fired.’
And like any normal employee who was fired due to recession, loss of job to overseas, etc. they will go through the same mental process we did.
BUT...the catch here is ...the public doesn’t have the empathy for them. In fact, many of them coming from things like offices set up to implement programs the public opposes makes for a unique and unqualified resume/CV. The last person I would ever want to hire would be the one that listed DEI implementation office for the Federal Government. Couple some of the previous policies and these indoctrinators will not be welcome in many small businesses.
So let’s say they were an IRS worker, now trying to get a job in the private sector. How many take up preparing tax returns for the average joe worker? Would you trust them to do that job?
Same with the third party contractors who deal with helping social security recipients?
There people are going to have a difficult time reorienting to the private sector in my humble opinion, it’s like they’ll need to be deprogrammed first.