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FEDERAL AGENCIES Tears, angst as workforce braces for Trump takeover
eenews.net ^ | 11/11/16 | Robin Bravender and Kevin Bogardus

Posted on 11/13/2016 9:31:46 AM PST by ColdOne

U.S. EPA employees were in tears. Worried Energy Department staffers were offered counseling. Some federal employees were so depressed, they took time off. Others might retire early.

And some employees are in downright panic mode in the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory.

"People are upset. Some people took the day off because they were depressed," said John O'Grady, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, a union that represents thousands of EPA employees. After Election Day, "people were crying," added O'Grady, who works in EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago. "They were recommending that people take sick leave and go home."

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To: ColdOne

Fire. Them. All.


21 posted on 11/13/2016 9:37:10 AM PST by chris37 (It's time to burn the GOP down.)
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To: ColdOne

Good, you useless and malignant losers. All these faceless bureaucratic degenerates do is harass normal Citizens and their businesses. That these government “workers” have a job is an abomination. They are overpaid, get too much leave and holiday, do nothing productive and retire with cushy pay. The He** with them and their kind. They are parasites feeding on productive Citizens (to whom they condescend and despise). I laugh at their “tears” and hope the worst for them all.


22 posted on 11/13/2016 9:37:12 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: ColdOne
"People are upset. Some people took the day off because they were depressed,"

Overpopulated federal agency workers might not want to use up all their vacation and sick leave just yet. They may need the money while job hunting after RIF occurs.

23 posted on 11/13/2016 9:37:30 AM PST by NautiNurse (Confucius says: "Never measure curtains before the votes are counted.")
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To: dynachrome

Their tears are delicious.

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These same feds shed no tears when excessive regulations cost other people their jobs. Tears for me but not for thee.


24 posted on 11/13/2016 9:38:02 AM PST by Starboard
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To: ColdOne

Maybe these fed emps can now sympathize with the miners who were thrown over by Hilda and O insect. Maybe they can think about all the others whose jobs were whisked away overseas.


25 posted on 11/13/2016 9:38:06 AM PST by georgiegirl (Count me in the half that's in the Deplorable Basket)
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To: ColdOne
Awwww!

The Enrichment Program for Attorneys may lose employees.... Many lawyers also on suicide watch.

26 posted on 11/13/2016 9:38:12 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: ColdOne

I am loving this Trump effect!


27 posted on 11/13/2016 9:38:53 AM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: ColdOne
No more afternoon naps!


28 posted on 11/13/2016 9:39:55 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("He may be a sinner but she's the Devil" - a minister on the candidates)
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To: ColdOne
More smiles for me. Schadenfreude explained:


29 posted on 11/13/2016 9:40:35 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The problem I see is that an EPA guy has a worthless degree and experience. A lot of these EPA folks in DC are GS-13/14 types and making $100,000 a year. There’s zero potential trying to stay in DC so they will be throwing houses in Virginia and Maryland up on the market rather quickly (wouldn’t surprise me if you see some houses marketed by Thanksgiving).

With 15,000 employees....if Trump just told them to lay off 1,000 employees by 1 Oct 2017....they could probably do it. At least the IT folks and clerks could find other work in DC.


30 posted on 11/13/2016 9:40:43 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: ColdOne

So the answer is to take a day off work to show how useless you are


31 posted on 11/13/2016 9:40:43 AM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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To: ColdOne

That’s how to get Virginia back in the red column. Eliminate the support for all those lefty fed employees in northern Virginia.


32 posted on 11/13/2016 9:41:12 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: ColdOne
"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."

- John Basil Barnhill

33 posted on 11/13/2016 9:41:18 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: ColdOne

Canada has offered to take all of you snowflakes in...

Oh, wait a minute...no they haven’t. Canada specifically stated THEY DON’T WANT YOU EITHER!


34 posted on 11/13/2016 9:41:31 AM PST by moovova
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To: Texas Eagle

Can you say downsize? I knew that you could.

Trump must cut thousands of useless Fedzilla jobs that are harming the economy and causing the federal debt to balloon.


35 posted on 11/13/2016 9:42:01 AM PST by Starboard
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To: ColdOne

Keep in mind where this is. I doubt all civil servants are wilting... Johnson Space Center, for example.


36 posted on 11/13/2016 9:42:07 AM PST by leakinInTheBlueSea
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To: ColdOne

The EPA and Department of Energy should both be completely defunded. Both are drags on the economy.


37 posted on 11/13/2016 9:42:09 AM PST by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: ColdOne

Drain the swamp, fire these lazy POS and send them packing. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH


38 posted on 11/13/2016 9:42:33 AM PST by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: 50mm

They took their “day off” and I bet they did their “mourning” at the local shopping mall or bar.


39 posted on 11/13/2016 9:43:28 AM PST by laconic
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To: ColdOne

Interesting comment that they’ve “been through” Reagan and they “got through” Bush. Everything seems to have been just peachy under GHWB, clinton and obama. I wonder why that might have been.


40 posted on 11/13/2016 9:43:38 AM PST by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not auccomplishments; they're jobs.)
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