'Devastated.' 'Cruel.' 'Surreal.' Federal workers share the toll of losing their identity

NBC New | Comcast ^ | February 28, 2025 | By Rebecca Shabad, Natasha Korecki, Nnamdi Egwuonwu, Aria Bendix, Allan Smith, Garrett Haake, Julie

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[CIB-173RDABN]

Life sucks. Welcome to the real world.

[Red Badger]

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!....................

[HombreSecreto]

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.

[bray]

While ABDNC wonders why their viewership is in the toilet.

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[RoosterRedux]

So these federal workers think they should keep their jobs even if their jobs are considered to be unnecessary?

Welcome to the real world. Rarely is employment forever.

[BenLurkin]

She better hop to it.

[V_TWIN]

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.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

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..

[Skywise]

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.

[BipolarBob]

“I don’t know who I am anymore”. “Momma, Orange Man fired me. Orange Man bad.”

[who knows what evil?]

NBC = Nothing But Communism.

[P-Marlowe]

I feel for all the restaurant workers in California that were laid off after the State raised their minimum wage to $20 an hour.

[crusty old prospector]

They thought a civil servant was a lifetime at the government (taxpayer) food trough.

[xp38]

[fhayek]

That's it. No federal employee should ever lose their job. We only run a $2 trillion a year deficit. We can't have any president trying to tighten the belt or cut the fat. No. We have to keep spending our way into oblivion.

[Leaning Right]

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’.

[Bon of Babble]

Looks like those federal workers were doing a great job with our tax dollars:

[P-Marlowe]

It took SIX people to write this vomit fest?.....sheesh

Yeah, like the federal government maybe 5 out of the 6 are redundant.