Posted on 03/07/2025 8:10:45 AM PST by DallasBiff
NEW YORK — (AP) — Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their firing.
The country's bitterly tribal politics are spilling into text chains, social media posts and heated conversations as Americans absorb the reality of the government's cost-cutting measures. Expecting sympathy, some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government's waste
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Axed federal workers = less gov’t.
Less gov’t = more prosperity.
More prosperity means we all benefit including those axed federal workers who will find private employment soon enough.
Interesting that they didn’t interview any of the “family members”....of course I would expect nothing less biased from the ap.
Also, why didn’t they take the early buy out?
Doing so would have allowed them to seek a new position elsewhere.....now that they’ve been cut loose they have sealed their own fate.
June Umpteenth, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners are going to get uuuugggly this year. The Norman Rockwell daze in America are over. It’s going to look like the cover of True Detective magazine all over the country for the holidays.
That's how MSM does job loss articles when a Dim is president.
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I told my fed govt worker cousin (now retired) years ago, “You’d be richer if you worked in the private sector with all your knowledge.” He talked about the private sector as if it was darkest Africa. He never left the govt, but he managed to cheat us all out of a year and retire early by filing false paperwork. And he was dumb enough to brag about it.
News Flash: you get no help from most, including family, when you lose your job.
Stop calling them workers.
“We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Hillary Clinton 2016
With the eventual return of manufacturing jobs and the expansion of the energy industry, there will be plenty of private sector jobs.
Most of those will require actual work, though.
It’s not gentle out there in the real working world.
If I had a relative, by default, I wouldn’t give them lip about being fired, unless they had shoved it in my face or made an issue of it with me.
Usually, I would think that if a relative is celebrating their firing, there are other factors at play and the ending of their government job has less to do with it than the fact they dislike the person.
Yep.
Since 2000 I have had to find a new job five times. Which is pretty normal. Three times because the company had to down size. Twice I took a buy out.
Keeping your resume up to date and your network humming is what you do.
True. They typically have their own problems, and not much money to help you out.
These MSM worms didn’t publish sob stories for cancelled pipeline jobs or coal jobs or IT workers displaced by H1-Bs.
Only bureaucrats deserve their empathy.
"Why should Federal bureaucrats have an iron rice bowl, when those of us who pay their salaries do not?"
Now they know how the rest of us feel.
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