• scripthook@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    The irony that a News Anchor is telling Federal Workers to get a “real job” when she could get one herself

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    I’m a federal employee and have been for 25 years.

    Some years back my parents were visiting from Florida and asked to borrow a car (I had two), and I said sure. Then, later, I said something about how busy work had been, and my father starts laughing at how funny that is - and calls my older brother - so they can share a laugh about me “working hard”. Both lifelong Republicans, I will note.

    I was like, hey, did you want to borrow the car that my hard work paid for, or not?

    When I called them out on it, they said I was absolutely correct and apologized.

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    4 hours ago

    Yo like, there hundreds of people without a job already. Why did she want to have the unemployment offices flooded.

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    Funny how they’ll say this to federal workers, but they won’t say shit to the military who are living the socialist dream.

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      Yeah, and if you ever ask a vet what they did, unless they’d been to literal war, they’re going to tell you that they were basically just put in charge of stocking a broom closet and were bored 95% of the time.

      Edit: just want to add that I do respect the military, and if anyone wants to tell me why I’m wrong, I’d love to hear lol

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    And many of the people I’ve talked to among different agencies are taking this offer. Those that were sort of close to retirement, for example December and the like.

    So wait, is this dumb bitch expecting us to believe these people are forgoing their entire retirement for a few months pay? Or does she expect us to believe that retiring them a few months early and saving one or two months pay (basically fucking pennies) is saving significant government money? I genuinely don’t know what else she could mean.

    I guess that’s what they do though. Throw out useless anecdotes, say it’s a good thing, and let the user generate feelings based off it while having no idea what it actually means.

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      4 hours ago

      This. And there is no way Trump will keep any “deal” that costs him money. He has literally built his business around stiffing contractors. No one should trust him or expect him to keep his word.

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      7 hours ago

      Right, these are likely people with fully vested pensions basically taking terminal leave above and beyond their accumulated leave. Most feds can accumulate 240 hours of leave to be cashed out on retirement. Trump basically offered people nearing retirement the opportunity to cash out 1280 hours. Much efficiency. Very cost savings.

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    5 hours ago

    Even if I wanted to take the deal I’d have to work until 5/15 anyway because of the agency I work for. I haven’t heard of anyone taking it around me.

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      12 hours ago

      Why would a worker that is paid less be less important?

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        Typically because it’d be a job that doesn’t have many skill or education/knowledge requirements compared to higher-paying jobs