Posted on 02/28/2025 6:49:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
They're scientists. Veterans. Park rangers. Lawyers. Researchers. Administrative staff.
They work on fire safety. Safe drinking water. Veterans' health. Combating bird flu.
They're from all over the country, in red states and blue. They're young and old.
Thousands of federal workers have been fired in the last month.
They're victims of efforts by President Donald Trump and his senior adviser, billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, to cut the size of the government.
And they want people to understand what they did and why they loved being public servants.
Anna Conn, 35, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Asheville, N.C.:
Conn was a public health analyst focused on chronic disease. She has experience in disability rights and international development, once living in Nigeria working on immunizations. Conn is eight months pregnant and an above-the-knee amputee. Her due date is in mid-April – just after her health insurance runs out. Her pregnancy has made the use of her prosthetic painful, and it is causing sores.
While she believes she can eventually switch to her husband’s health insurance, she is facing other financial challenges because of the uncertainty around the loss of her job and benefits. Any insurance change means she’ll accrue duplicative out-of-pocket costs for the year, she said, as she attempts to attain a new prosthetic leg that’s still in the process of being designed.
“Just trying to figure out health insurance has been challenging. I think I have health insurance that ends three days before my due date. … What happens if I give birth on the day [it runs out]? Is the next day covered? …
As a pregnant amputee that wears a prosthetic leg, because you tend to swell [and] gain weight around your thighs – your body changes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Life sucks. Welcome to the real world.
Good heavens! These people are babies!
I’ve lost so many jobs over the years and neve did I have a nervous breakdown like these people are having. And every time, thru the Grace of God I got a better job!....................
I thought snowflakes can identify as whatever they want. So, go ahead and identify as a government employee.
You won’t get paid, but since identity is what they care about, problem solved.
While ABDNC wonders why their viewership is in the toilet.
The chaos, confusion and emotional suffering in federal offices is already off the charts.
Normal people live in a world where you show up for work, do useful things, report on what useful things you did last week, and always face the risk that layoffs by your company might become necessary.
Federal employees don’t live in that world. Until now. And they find it unfair and frightening.
Welcome to the real world. Rarely is employment forever.
She better hop to it.
It took SIX people to write this vomit fest?.....sheesh
I got laid off once fir reasons NOT of my doing......know what I did? I sacked up and went out an FOUND ANOTHER JOB.
They might have chosen an unfortunate poster child. Better to have highlighted an essential worker in the Severe Storms area of the National Weather Service, which is a service everybody needs from time-to-time.
Trump and Musk will triumph because there are too many special interests getting public money with little accountability for most people to care..
Oh spare me.
Y’all thought you had a cushy job with gold plate benefits and a pension and now you’re suddenly a peon like the rest of us.
“I don’t know who I am anymore”. “Momma, Orange Man fired me. Orange Man bad.”
NBC = Nothing But Communism.
I feel for all the restaurant workers in California that were laid off after the State raised their minimum wage to $20 an hour.
They thought a civil servant was a lifetime at the government (taxpayer) food trough.
When Biden cancelled the Keystone pipeline, he threw thousands of people out of work. I don’t recall the mainstream media worrying about those folks.
Just sayin’.
Yeah, like the federal government maybe 5 out of the 6 are redundant.
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