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David Rice, a disabled Army paratrooper who has been on probation since joining the U.S. Department of Energy in September, also learned Thursday night that he had lost his job.
Rice, who has been working as a foreign affairs specialist on health matters relating to radiation exposure, said he’d been led to believe that his job would likely be safe. But on Thursday night, when he logged into his computer for a meeting with Japanese representatives, he saw an email saying he’d been fired.
“It’s just been chaos,” said Rice, 50, who had just bought a house in Melbourne, Florida, after he got the job.
Rice said he agrees with the Trump administration’s goal of making the government more efficient, but objects to the random, scattershot approach being taken.
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“random, scattershot approach” AKA “They did not only target the non-white people!”
I like having it around. It’s like seeing the bullied kid get bullied, but in this case they totally deserve it.
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The Leopard feasts tonight
People act like it’s only government workers that are lazy and wasteful. But lazy workers are universal, especially with the soulless jobs that the vast majority of people have to do in order to survive.
As a gov contractor is be all for improving efficiency but what is happening is the exact opposite.
The Political DEI, under the Orange Turd, did not save his ass. Oh well, zero sympathy and another classic FAFO case.
“… but objects to bring personally affected by the retribution he asked for.” ftfy
Their first rule says:
- No racism or bigotry.
So… is it really a conservative community?
Conservatism != racism
Frankly I’d love to see more non-racist conservatives on Lemmy! If we want the fediverse to replace big tech, we can’t be a left wing echo chamber
But yeah, you can’t be a dick
I can’t tell if this is leopard eating face, or dog getting nose rubbed in. That sub has always been very tolerant of people contradicting the narrative you usually see fostered on social media. Was it co-opted by non conservatives? Maybe? If so good.
That’s a good point, didn’t they want to make it illegal to be against racism?
That’s not contradictory to conservatism itself, only to the way it’s represented in the USA (and a few other countries, but in many countries there’s a right wing party and a center-right conservative party)
They think other government workers are a waste but they themselves are a special case because reasons. It’s easy to criticize when you don’t understand what is going on. Hopefully they learn from this instead of thinking it’s an honest mistake.
There is not a conservative community on Lemmy. There are, however, a few communities entirely composed of one guy posting conservative leaning articles that all get downvoted to zero and have a half dozen comments saying he’s wrong.
I love that so much…
A disabled federal government worker who supports Trump. You have to be a special kind of clueless to be in all of those camps.
Did he think being a veteran would protect him from the fickle judgement of the guy who famously called dead and injured soldiers “suckers and losers”?
The article says he agrees with one point of the Trump administration, where I come from that doesn’t mean you support the entire administration’s point of view, but I might be wrong about that in the US
theyd have him in a camp alright
DEI allowed people with disabilities to work in government. This dipshit Trumper MAGA fuckwit thinks he was immune. Fuck him. Hope he gets everything he voted for.
That’s because Trumpers conveniently forget to mention the “A” in “DEIA”. The A stands for “Accessibility”. As in, accessibility for the disabled to actually be able to do their jobs with reasonable accommodations. If you kill DEI, you also kill accessibility.
Generally speaking disability rights has adopted civil rights language in its activitism so it’s also part of diversity. And equity… And inclusion.
That’s because they think DEI just means black. As usual they don’t know what the fuck they are talking about
Now now now, they also think it means you hire women.
DEI is the safe n word now.
I have yet to hear one of those fuckers IRL tell me what DEI stands for, they don’t know!
It stands for Donald, Eric, Ivanka.
“The last time the economy lost jobs was in December 2020, when the United States was still recovering from
the coronavirus pandemic” Trump’s first term. (fixed that)How braindead do you have to be to equate efficiency with destruction?!
Unless of course, destruction is the point.
Lots of folks want it all to burn down, not see it healed. Accelerationism is not unique to maga, they just differ in what they hope comes next
Some want a levelling of the playing field, others want an opportunity to seize absolute power.
Our leopards are starting to look a bit, uh, not super healthy.
The conservative consequences.
