• qaz
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      83 months ago

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

      • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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        -103 months ago

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

  • @scripthook@lemmy.world
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    593 months ago

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

  • @limelight79@lemm.ee
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    573 months ago

    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.

    • @jj4211@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

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

      You see, this story I could believe until you said a republican actually conceded being wrong, I don’t know if I can believe that…

  • JoYo
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    423 months ago

    Every federal employee I know could easily triple their pay by going into private sector.

    I anticipate we’ll need to rehire them as contractors at triple the pay.

    • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      283 months ago

      AF vet here. Big govt personnel cutbacks followed by “Oh shit!” followed by hiring expensive contractors that do half the work is a tale as old as Uncle Sam.

      …that said, I dunno if there will be an “Oh shit” moment this time around: Trump is acting on malice, not stupidity. Weakening the US is his goal.

      • @Susaga@sh.itjust.works
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        83 months ago

        It’s actually a very common right-wing idea to take anything publicly owned and turn it into a profit-driven private entity. Chances are, if they don’t own that entity, someone they know does. When the contract goes over budget, you know they’re enjoying the spoils.

        Even if it’s owned by nobody they know, at least it’s profit-driven enough to bribe politicians for better contracts.

      • JoYo
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        53 months ago

        I’ll hold judgment either way until I see a law repealed but I share the same fear.

    • @Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      73 months ago

      That’s the plan and one of Trump’s buddies will get their share for holding the company that organises it all.

      • JoYo
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        23 months ago

        I’ve gotten some confused looks when I tell people that what Trump is doing right now is exactly what Republicans do every time they’re in power. I think they thought I was defending Trump. No, I’m condemning Republicans. Every year they vote to remove my right to vote in DC and every year it’s just as fascist.

  • @danc4498@lemmy.world
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    313 months ago

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

    • @FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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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

      • @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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        43 months ago

        My mom was a mechanic in the army and never got deployed. For her mandatory four years, she just fixed trucks in the day and got wasted with other mechanics at night. She says it was a job, not actual service. She doesn’t consider herself a veteran because she didn’t do jack shit.

      • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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        33 months ago

        One of my call center buddies was in charge of receiving requests for freight transport and asking his NCO to approve them. His NCO say directly behind him. So he’d stare at a computer screen until a request came in, turn around, ask for approval which would be framed, then turn back around and click the approve button.

  • NutWrench
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    303 months ago

    Huffing Donald Trump’s farts isn’t a “job.”

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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.

    • NutWrench
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      23 months 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.

  • loaf
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    263 months ago

    Self-awareness: this woman lacks it.

  • @meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    193 months ago

    Ah, the Fox Business brain trust peddles its economic logic—golden parachutes for public servants framed as fiscal savviness. “Get a real job” drips with the private sector’s trademark disdain for anyone not chasing quarterly bonuses. Federal work—infrastructure, disaster response, public health—reduced to a punchline in their profit-worshiping catechism.

    The arithmetic is perfect: swap lifelong stability for a one-time payout and genuflect before the gig economy’s algorithmic altar. Feast on capitalism’s crumbs before the vultures pick the bones clean. When has short-termism ever collapsed industries or gutted pensions? The real crisis? A world where civil service is mocked while hedge fund carnage gets tax breaks.