Posted on 07/13/2025 6:44:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
More than 1,300 employees were forced out of the State Department on Friday, leaving their offices with small boxes of plants and old coffee mugs and taking with them decades of specialized skills and on-the-job training as part of the United States diplomatic corps.
“It’s so hard to work somewhere your entire life and then get treated this way,” one veteran civil servant with more than 30 years working at the department told NBC News. “I don’t know how you treat people this way. I really don’t.”
Michael Duffin, a civil service employee with the department since 2013, spent nine years as a policy adviser with the counterterrorism bureau developing some of the first programs to counter white supremacy and other forms of violent extremism.
“Our entire office is just ... gone,” said a senior civil service officer from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor standing in front of the department late Friday as fired employees left the building.
A group of women laid off from the State Department’s Office of Science and Technology Cooperation walked out wearing T-shirts over their office clothes with the message, “Science is Diplomacy. Diplomacy is Science.” The women cried and hugged each other as they exited the building in front of the gathered crowd.
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they can find new employment in the dreaded private sector
Get rid of this idiot too.
Boo hoo hoo. A department that just about DOUBLED in size since 2008 experienced a small reduction in force. Let’s all cry like little bitches about it.
Welcome to the private sector snowflakes. It happens to us all the time and always has. Get used to it. This was just a small taste of the mass firings that need to happen at Foggy Bottom.
Welcome to the real world.
Happens all the time in non-government jobs.
Sympathy meter pegged at ZERO.
...once they learn some useful skills.
The state department was packed with liberal left leaning dishonest Democrats that subverted our foreign policy for years. This house cleaning was needed and I have little to no sympathy for them.
Good riddance. Now they can do their pron surfing perpetual coffee breaks at home.
“Baffled”!!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
Hopefully, the people being tossed out are the RAT spies, leakers, resisters and obstructionists imbedded in the government by the interns that ran the Joe Pedo administration and had control of his “autopen”.
With all the problem the State Department has caused in the world, we do not need the 80,000 employees they have.
A mere 1,300 laid off is nothing.
*** “Science is Diplomacy. Diplomacy is Science.” ***
Hmmmm…certainly don’t need these types in our government offices.
“ 30 years working at the department”
I never worked more than 8 years doing anything. My average stint was 4 years.
I had 9 different employers and way more job functions over a 38 year career.
Good to see a few Federales getting a reality check.
Welcome to the real world, produce or perish…….
every single time anyone is cut, or funding is cut etc we need to state over and over and over, we must cut in order to save Social Security.
“ the counterterrorism bureau developing some of the first programs to counter white supremacy”
Delicious.
“Science is Diplomacy. Diplomacy is Science.”
Words mean things.
Science is not Diplomacy.
Freaking loons.
Good riddance!
Sonds like getting rid of ;eftist deadwood. I mean since when should we be concerned wiyh “White Supremacy” Wehave more than enough crazy Iranians and other world wide caliphatists ,the Russians , Norkies and the Chinese to battle , as well as the nullification left here at home.
Send that deadwood to where they can grow into more useful citizens..
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