"Snowflake! Snowflake!! That's my safe word! Stop! -- Snowflake!!"
Posted on 02/11/2017 9:49:56 AM PST by Zakeet
Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump's arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired.
At the Treasury Department, civil servants are quietly gathering information about whistle-blower protections as they polish their resumes.
At the United States Digital Service - the youthful cadre of employees who left jobs at Google, Facebook or Microsoft to join the Obama administration - workers are debating how to stop Mr. Trump should he want to use the databases they made more efficient to target specific immigrant groups.
"It's almost a sense of dread, as in, what will happen to us," said Gabrielle Martin, a trial lawyer and 30-year veteran at the Denver office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where colleagues now share daily, grim predictions about the fate of their jobs under Mr. Trump’s leadership.
"It's like the movie music when the shark is coming," Ms. Martin said, referring to “Jaws,” the 1975 thriller. "People are just wary - is the shark going to come up out of the water?"
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November 8 2016 The Dread Trump Decision
The heat from their rage warms me on the cold nights. The chill from their fear cools me on a hot day. Their tears slake my thirst.
They ought to worry when they get paid twice as much to do less than half the work like the Full-Time Employees (FTE) where I work. Some are vets and all due respect to them for their service but it doesn’t mean they are entitled to a $90k/yr job where they hardly lift a finger while contractors do the heavy listing. Those folks can be fired and you’d never notice.
"Snowflake! Snowflake!! That's my safe word! Stop! -- Snowflake!!"
Since many of them have outlived their usefulness maybe its time to ‘take the pill’?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rin4h4cRs6Y
They should be fired for cause. This is straight-up insubordination. You say X needs to be implemented by July 1st. You document their feet dragging and when end of business July 1 comes and it's not done, you fire them en masse July 2.
And the year is still young ;)
Or maybe NOT a shark ...
“Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump’s arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.”
Really, who cares what they think? They have a job to do. Every single one of these people has a superior in their place of work, and the ultimate superior to each and every one of them is the President of the United States. While they certainly have the right as individual citizens to like or dislike any politician, or to vote for or against any politician, while in the workplace they have a simple choice: either do their job (as defined by their superiors), or not. If the answer is “not,” then they can find work elsewhere. But good luck with that one, as failing to even be able to do the work of a federal bureaucrat is not exactly the highest recommendation for another job.
“At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how to slow-walk President Trump’s environmental orders without being fired.”
“To hell with cutting their budget by 50%. Cut it 100%!!”
No, I think the better solution is to reassign them to one of two places. The first is somewhere out in the deserts of Texas or Arizona, building the border wall. Sorry, there are no actual offices there, just an open-air facility with no air conditioning. The second choice would be our new EPA office just to the north of Yukon National Park. Of course, there hasn’t yet been time to install any heaters. It’s pretty much an open air facility right now, but if they refuse the reassignment to either place, then they will have forfeited any unemployment benefits that they might have otherwise received upon being fired.
Why doesn’t some reporter ask them how they thought the coal miners felt?
When you job is banishing energy, once you have banished all energy sources, there is no need for you anymore.
The firing rate of govt employees is .4%. It is time to unload them and let them get a job where production is required. I’d love to see them all fired, and re-hired if they are the best candidate, otherwise....see ya later
If you’ve been scrupulously doing your work according to your job description, you’re probably not in much danger. If you’ve been sandbagging, gooofing off and/or doing political bleep, be very afraid. Serves you right!
Hoppe’s #9 and WD-40 to me. Not to mention the smell of spent gunpowder out on the firing line. Booooyahh! Trump keeps winning. He’s the Lord’s hand-picked man for this time and this situation.
The biggest class of welfare thieves in the Country, .gov!
I hope that President Trump let's Paul Ryan know that he won't accept any "grand bargain" budget deals. Break the budget down by agencies and submit their budgets as separate budget items.
HORRYWOOD!!!
This is fun to watch.
5.56mm
I agree with grinding them up, but not for dog food or fertilizer.
I would not feed that poisonous sh!t to my dogs, and using it for fertilizer would only spoil my fruits and vegetables.
Better to just haul the debris to Yucca Mountain for permanent storage.
My choice would have been for honing oil ( knives and straight razors.)
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