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Leopards Ate My Face

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Update from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34685956

Unfortunately for our entertainment, her Facebook profile has been entirely purged of her MAGA history.

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I'm officially unemployed. Today I was RIF'd from the government. It's such a surreal and humbling moment; one that I knew was coming but secretly thought and wished would never happen. I started working for SBA in 2010 during my senior year of college. I came in as an emergency hire and was placed on the student career experience program. I worked in accounts payable for 14 years before moving to contracting in October. I worked remotely since 2017 when I was placed on a reasonable accommodation after shattering my kneecap while walking into work. I worked countless hours from different hospitals I was inpatient in from 2017-2023. I relied on work to get me through many difficult times in my life while I was alone in the hospital or angry at the universe. It kept me mentally sane for many years and gave me a purpose in life. I took a lot of pride over the team I managed and the work that we produced. I wouldn't change one thing about my federal career and hope one day I can continue it.

For now, it is time to figure out what is next for me. To all my fellow government workers, I want to say it's been a privilege being able to work with you. The government is full of a lot of highly intelligent and hard working individuals. I know that we will all be ok after the dust has settled and make a game plan for what is next. I have met so many great people in the government and hope the best for everyone!

For everyone that knows someone in the federal workforce, please check in on them. This is a scary and sad time for most of us and we are not ok at the moment and are faced with some scary unknown challenges that we have not faced before.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 188 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You know that makes me most Furious about that statement. That I know we will all be okay part. She doesn't know that. Odds are someone's not going to be okay. In fact it's almost guaranteed. Someone's going to lose their home over this. Someone's going to go hungry over this. Someone's kids are going to go hungry over this. Someone's going to lose Health Care protection and maybe die from this directly. She blithely assumes that everything's going to be okay when she has no fucking idea and should know better.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 102 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kind of shows how privileged she is by saying they're facing unknowns they've never faced before. She voted for Trump to hurt others and now that she's getting hurt, she's very quick to point out just how human her and other government workers are

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

If she was really an in-patient for a shattered knee for years, she’s way more privileged than most (just the government funded healthcare alone is super privileged).

I hope she’s ok, but if she was really a trumper than she deserves to be charged what the rest of us would have to pay for all that healthcare.

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Great Recession was a blood bath of people trying to kill themselves too. We literally let one dude cause all this pain and suffering because his followers are fucking stupid.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And a bunch of fucking shitheads didn’t vote at all.

[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

But 78 million people are larger than many countries on earth. At some point we need to face the discussion about how 78 million actually don’t deserve and will not take this bullshit anymore.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Considering how the US economy looks right now, very few people are gonna be okay (mostly the rich ones).