Trump fires thousands for "performance" without any evidence in error plagued firing frenzy.

[progressive hunter]

That is pretty comical. These fired federal employees, they don't do any work, most of them stay at home and telecommute, right? And yet now you are so delusional that you think they are going to show up to raise field crops. They ain't going to do it, damn few Americans are going to work those fields.

And delusional is certainly the right word. Those that claim, like you, that these immigrants are taking jobs from Americans, are both delusional and ignorant. Ignorant as to what those jobs are really like. And nothing exemplifies that reality better than immigrants working the fields, it is so much more than picking the crops.

Field cropping is some hard ass work. And dangerous, I mean fishing boat in Alaska dangerous. And these commercial farms, this ain't working the summer at the grandparents, my experience from a young age. One a dairy farmer, the other field crops. It was hard work, but hell, I pretty much was just showing up at harvest time. The real work is setting the crop in, pruning it, maintaining it until harvest.

And the really comical part, the money. Oh, these immigrants are suppressing wages. I am here to tell you, those immigrants bring home more money than almost any blue-collar worker, rather paid hourly or even salary. At least they do around here. Sure, much of the time it is for cash under the table. But they work longer, and harder, than most. And among the immigrant community, the field workers are held in high esteem.

I have seen it. For the immigrant, and yes, probably illegal, overstaying a tourist visa granted to visit relatives. It starts in a single wide trailer, with no walls, except for maybe the bathrooms, two of them. It is wall to wall cots, a maximum-security prison probably gives you more personal space. The cooking is done outside, communal, and it is more than a dozen men staying there.

But they work. They show up at the crack of dawn, and they dig it until mid-afternoon. Then, they show up at another gig, maybe just a busboy, but they dig some more. And they do this day in and day out, sometimes weeks at a time. But when they take off, well they show up at the finest restaurants, dressed to the nines, wife and kids along.

that doesnt make sense,,

were you dropped on your head s a child??

 

[BluesLegend]

You're having a bad month. Take deep breaths and relax

All these chicken little Democrats need to be careful because we'll see that the sky really doesn't fall if you axe THOUSANDS of government PORK jobs. Things continue to run just fine.

Besides, Obama told Democrats there's a lot of stupid waste that needs to be cut. Trump and DOGE is only doing the job Obama said needs to be done! Poor Dems, OH SNAP!!! 100x

 

[berg80]

Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research​

“This is simply the end.”

That was the five-word message that Rick Huganir, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, received from a colleague just before 6 p.m. two Fridays ago, with news that would send a wave of panic through the scientific community.

When Huganir clicked on the link in the email, from fellow JHU neuroscientist Alex Kolodkin, he saw a new National Institutes of Health policy designed to slash federal spending on the indirect costs that keep universities and research institutes operating, including for new equipment, maintenance, utilities and support staff.

“Am I reading this right 15%??” Huganir wrote back in disbelief, suddenly worried the cut could stall 25 years of work.

In 1998, Huganir discovered a gene called SYNGAP1. About 1% of all children with intellectual disabilities have a mutation of the gene. He’s working to develop drugs to treat these children, who often have learning differences, seizures and sleep problems. He said his research is almost entirely reliant on NIH grants.

The search for a cure for these rare disorders is a race against time, because researchers think treatment will be most effective if administered when patients are children.

“We’re developing therapeutics for the kids and may have a therapeutic that could be curing these kids in the next several years, but that research is going to be compromised,” Huganir said in an interview, estimating that scientists in his field could start a Phase 1 clinical trial within the next five years. “Any delay or anything that inhibits our research is devastating to the parents.”

Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

www.nbcnews.com

No biggie. There's nothing hydroxychloroquine can't cure. And what about shinning light up kid's butts?

 

[Seymour Flops]

If I were a demoquack I'd probably shy away from the IRS issue after what Lois Lerner pulled

You have to shameless to be a Democrat. Regular people couldn’t do it.

 

[Rawley]

This is the very definition of a man made disaster. Giving someone of this temperment the keys to the front door is only just beginning to show what a looming trainwreck is rolling down the tracks. It has been remarkably bad in only just a matter of weeks. The reason it is going to get so much worse is because of this brain drain that our federal government is currently undergoing. Even if all these jobs are refilled the experience that was there is all gone. Will take years to repair the damage done in weeks.





The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

“I’m glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person,” her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. “So we can add a little human touch to what’s going on.”

Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years’ probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

Critics warned of swift consequences as the administration raced to execute a vision Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have touted for a leaner, reshaped government. The latest wave of personnel actions already prompted an administrative complaint on behalf of workers at nine agencies, adding to more than a dozen legal tests of Trump’s power filed one month into his term.

The Trump administration will not disclose how many workers it cut since last week ahead of its Tuesday deadline, but the government employed more than 200,000 probationary workers as of last year. The firings have extended to touch employees at almost every agency, including map makers, archaeologists and cancer researchers, The Post found, in choices that some workers said contradicted a U.S. Office of Personnel Management directive to retain “mission-critical” workers.

This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications reviewed by The Post.

The Federal Aviation Administration let go hundreds of technicians and engineers just weeks after a midair collision a few miles from the White House killed 67 people, eliciting promises from Trump officials to improve air safety, workers said in interviews. FEMA, which handles the nation’s natural disasters, is preparing to fire hundreds of probationary employees, according to four people familiar with the situation who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The agency is already stretched thin responding to fires in California and floods in Kentucky. And the administration terminated scores of employees who work to bolster the nation’s nuclear defense, only to realize its error and start reversing the firings.

WaPo

Last in, first out.

 

[odanny]

This is real world, people impacted by President Musk and the Emperor.



Employees who were told their performance was at issue said they had earned evaluations, reviewed by The Post, that offered evidence of their good work.

“Above fully successful,” read a November assessment of a fired General Services Administration worker.
“An outstanding year, consistently exceeding expectations,” stated a review for a former NIH employee, whose manager credited her for “mastering a steep learning curve and becoming an invaluable asset.”

One well-rated Veterans Affairs staffer texted her boss to complain after she was fired. In text messages obtained by The Post, he replied: “It states it’s due to your performance which is not true. … Your performance has nothing to do with this.”

Others were stunned to find themselves included in the probationary category, including a federal nurse with more than five years of government employment who recently moved under military orders with her spouse — and had to switch agencies as a result. Now she’s out of a job.

A veteran of the National Park Service, who had worked at parks including Yosemite, Shenandoah and the Great Smoky Mountains, last year left a permanent position to accept a promotion in a new park. There, she was told she’d have to serve one year of probation. On Valentine’s Day, she was fired for “performance,” ending a quarter-century of service.

“It is very brutal,” she said. “Especially after working and dedicating most of my life to the NPS.”
Some lamented that they had hoped to forge careers in federal service but won’t get the chance.

 

[Seymour Flops]

This is the very definition of a man made disaster. Giving someone of this temperment the keys to the front door is only just beginning to show what a looming trainwreck is rolling down the tracks. It has been remarkably bad in only just a matter of weeks. The reason it is going to get so much worse is because of this brain drain that our federal government is currently undergoing. Even if all these jobs are refilled the experience that was there is all gone. Will take years to repair the damage done in weeks.





The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

“I’m glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person,” her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. “So we can add a little human touch to what’s going on.”

Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years’ probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

Critics warned of swift consequences as the administration raced to execute a vision Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have touted for a leaner, reshaped government. The latest wave of personnel actions already prompted an administrative complaint on behalf of workers at nine agencies, adding to more than a dozen legal tests of Trump’s power filed one month into his term.

The Trump administration will not disclose how many workers it cut since last week ahead of its Tuesday deadline, but the government employed more than 200,000 probationary workers as of last year. The firings have extended to touch employees at almost every agency, including map makers, archaeologists and cancer researchers, The Post found, in choices that some workers said contradicted a U.S. Office of Personnel Management directive to retain “mission-critical” workers.

This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications reviewed by The Post.

The Federal Aviation Administration let go hundreds of technicians and engineers just weeks after a midair collision a few miles from the White House killed 67 people, eliciting promises from Trump officials to improve air safety, workers said in interviews. FEMA, which handles the nation’s natural disasters, is preparing to fire hundreds of probationary employees, according to four people familiar with the situation who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The agency is already stretched thin responding to fires in California and floods in Kentucky. And the administration terminated scores of employees who work to bolster the nation’s nuclear defense, only to realize its error and start reversing the firings.

WaPo

They’ve been collecting paychecks and benefits for years without any evidence of productive work for the American people, so I guess it makes sense.

 

[Rawley]

Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research​

No biggie. There's nothing hydroxychloroquine can't cure. And what about shinning light up kid's butts?

Johns Hopkins has a 10 billion dollar endowment. Problem solved.

 

[Clipper]

This is the very definition of a man made disaster. Giving someone of this temperment the keys to the front door is only just beginning to show what a looming trainwreck is rolling down the tracks. It has been remarkably bad in only just a matter of weeks. The reason it is going to get so much worse is because of this brain drain that our federal government is currently undergoing. Even if all these jobs are refilled the experience that was there is all gone. Will take years to repair the damage done in weeks.





The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

“I’m glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person,” her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. “So we can add a little human touch to what’s going on.”

Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years’ probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

Critics warned of swift consequences as the administration raced to execute a vision Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have touted for a leaner, reshaped government. The latest wave of personnel actions already prompted an administrative complaint on behalf of workers at nine agencies, adding to more than a dozen legal tests of Trump’s power filed one month into his term.

The Trump administration will not disclose how many workers it cut since last week ahead of its Tuesday deadline, but the government employed more than 200,000 probationary workers as of last year. The firings have extended to touch employees at almost every agency, including map makers, archaeologists and cancer researchers, The Post found, in choices that some workers said contradicted a U.S. Office of Personnel Management directive to retain “mission-critical” workers.

This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications reviewed by The Post.

The Federal Aviation Administration let go hundreds of technicians and engineers just weeks after a midair collision a few miles from the White House killed 67 people, eliciting promises from Trump officials to improve air safety, workers said in interviews. FEMA, which handles the nation’s natural disasters, is preparing to fire hundreds of probationary employees, according to four people familiar with the situation who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The agency is already stretched thin responding to fires in California and floods in Kentucky. And the administration terminated scores of employees who work to bolster the nation’s nuclear defense, only to realize its error and start reversing the firings.

WaPo

Punks run amok. Elon's errand boys in it for the bucks to see how much chaos they can cause. Weasely little hackers blowing things up with glee as the felon sub-human rides around Daytona, plays golf & watches Animal Planet reruns with his thumb up his ass.

The MAGA Trump humpers sit back drooling in their recliners as the very same people who voted for the reality tv huckster conman get it shoved in their ass by their Dear Leader.

 

[JWBooth]

Privatize or lease out management of the parks, problem solved.

 

[Woodznutz]

You're not very smart, are you?

I'm not a brain surgeon but I know some stuff.

Ever see "The Learning Tree"?

You don't have to be weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Transportation Department workers with 'exceptional' reviews told they're fired for 'performance' issues​

Letters went out to dozens of probationary employees in at least one section of the Department of Transportation that said part of the reason they were being fired was for poor performance, according to a copy of the letter obtained by NBC News.

But as a source familiar and a secondary document viewed by NBC News laid out, most of those employees were rated as being “exceptional” performers by their supervisors.

Federal workers with 'exceptional' reviews fired for 'performance' issues

President Donald Trump’s administration has started the mass firing of workers who are new to the civil service or have recently switched jobs.

www.nbcnews.com

This means Orange Jezzzus has learned from experience after pushback by unions it's easier to fire competent staff if you just lie about their performance.

That feels like a whole lot of incoming lawsuits from labor lawyers.

 

[Seymour Flops]

That feels like a whole lot of incoming lawsuits from labor lawyers.

They’re probationary emps. Not a legal leg to stand on.

Cheaper to fight the lawsuits than hire them backs.

It’s ripe for a class action which means the lawyers get rich and each plaintif gets peanuts.

They should look into job training as bus drivers for the illegals

 

[odanny]

They’ve been collecting paychecks and benefits for years without any evidence of productive work for the American people, so I guess it makes sense.

Give it up dude.

 

[odanny]

Privatize or lease out management of the parks, problem solved.

That would work really well, they would all become playgrounds for the wealthy, considering the $250 entrance fee (per day).

This is exactly the reason we pay taxes, but now this money will somehow end up in the hands of those who least need it,

 

[Mac1958]

Will take years to repair the damage done in weeks.

Definitely possible.

These people are like cats on catnip. Slow down and THINK, people.

 

[imawhosure]

On the bright side the wife talked to one of her old FEMA co-workers....They have to go in every day now.....After better than four years of remote work.

National Parks are going to be trashed this summer, I wonder how many Fish and Game have been terminated? Both were understaffed already, especially the Forest Service.

Shrink government as a whole

They are determined to do as much damage to the US as they can in the shortest time possible.

I am beginning to think that they think they may be removed from office soon.

If you notice, Leftists like......ahem.......ohdummy and friends, can only PROJECT. They have no idea what will happen, they just want to convince you that their projection is correct. No facts, just projections/opinions by them.

Tell them to STUFF IT, and come back when they have something concrete besides their BULLSH** projections.

Projections are like a**holes, it is just OHDUMMY'S, MACAFLOOZY'S, and CREPTUS are bigger a**holes than the rest of us-)

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Local, State and Federal level government employees (many of them) have become so overpaid, protected and entitled that many of them today feel We The People serve them. And that is actually true in MANY government offices on all levels.

When We The People are bullied, used and over taxed it really is time to trim those offices.

I think we need new laws governing how much government employees can make. A Cap of sorts based on Private sector pay rates and salaries. A government employee SHOULD NEVER make more than the median free market / private sector pay for that same job. Actually, they should make LESS so that private sector has the advantage. IMO this should already be law.

Otherwise local, state and Federal governments gain a HUGE advantage on finding and retaining employees because they pay them with someone elses money. I hope Mr. Musk thinks about this. He probably has.

 

[Crepitus]

If you notice, Leftists like......ahem.......ohdummy and friends, can only PROJECT. They have no idea what will happen, they just want to convince you that their projection is correct. No facts, just projections/opinions by them.

Tell them to STUFF IT, and come back when they have something concrete besides their BULLSH** projections.

Projections are like a**holes, it is just OHDUMMY'S, MACAFLOOZY'S, and CREPTUS are bigger a**holes than the rest of us-)

I'm speculating, not projecting.

DERP

 

[1srelluc]

One woman the wife worked with at FEMA moved over 200 miles away because she could remote work....She quit when they had to go back.