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Some Federal Workers Face Mental Health Struggles As Cuts Bite
Newsweek ^ | March 17, 2025 | by Kate Plummer

Posted on 03/17/2025 4:14:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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1 posted on 03/17/2025 4:14:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Getting laid off by the bloated government: cheaper than Ozempic!


2 posted on 03/17/2025 4:16:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

grow-up, crybabies


3 posted on 03/17/2025 4:16:25 AM PDT by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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Traumatized by less than a guarantee of lifetime employment!


4 posted on 03/17/2025 4:17:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Damned elitists. They are all mentally ill. Good riddance.


5 posted on 03/17/2025 4:17:17 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To cope, she added: “I sleep a lot. Eat a lot. Cry the whole way to work and the way home.”

…so nothings changed except the part about work.


6 posted on 03/17/2025 4:17:26 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Way back in the mid 80s, when I had just joined the USAF, I recall hearing a SNCO and a Major talking about getting Federal jobs when they retire and how they would be “set for life.”


7 posted on 03/17/2025 4:18:15 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Most were already mental cases.

It would be interesting if Musk could get past HIPAA regulations and run a report on how many Federal employees are on psychiatric meds.


8 posted on 03/17/2025 4:19:24 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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rats and thier sick agenda has conditioned these people from school age to adult.


9 posted on 03/17/2025 4:23:16 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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If federal employees are this weak, they should be terminated. Our country needs strong Americans, not suicidal bed wetters. Get Em Out!


10 posted on 03/17/2025 4:23:28 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Oh no..not mental health


11 posted on 03/17/2025 4:24:00 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Where were these sob stories when tens of thousands of workers lost their jobs due to Biden axing the Keystone Pipeline?
And those jobs were actually productive jobs, unlike the majority of bureaucratic jobs, which are anti-productive.

BOO HOO HOO!

12 posted on 03/17/2025 4:24:23 AM PDT by Pythion.net
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Leaving the GS service in 2013...I would say about 10-percent of the people I worked with...had some form of PTSD (probably from their military years) or anxiety/stress in lower forms. But I’ve conversed with folks in the postal ‘trade’ and caterring business....finding similar statistics in general.


13 posted on 03/17/2025 4:24:35 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

B-O-O. H-O-O.


14 posted on 03/17/2025 4:26:36 AM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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I simply dont remember any sob stories AT ALL of the tens and tens of thousands of independent contractors who lost their jobs when Gavin signed AB 5 in 2020. The press didn’t touch it ... it’s like it never happened.


15 posted on 03/17/2025 4:31:51 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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These boo hoo stories are designed to make the reader feel sorry for the victims of DOGE. Our grand children will thank them for their sacrifice as the 36 trillion deficit is retired.


16 posted on 03/17/2025 4:31:54 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: TornadoAlley3

My recent experience with federal workers is that they are unbelievably obsessed with that damn email telling them to list 5 bullet points covering “what I did last week”. Mental churning about the unfairness of this utterly fascist request seems to eat up all 8 hours of their working day.


17 posted on 03/17/2025 4:35:03 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: 9YearLurker

I was prouder of Americans before the phrase “Mental Health Struggles” became the coin of the realm in public discourse.


18 posted on 03/17/2025 4:36:12 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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You should see a modern college classroom. “Mental health struggles” is what bonds them together.


19 posted on 03/17/2025 4:37:51 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If they have mental issues now ,they had them before .


20 posted on 03/17/2025 4:40:32 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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