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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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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…
Our leopards are starting to look a bit, uh, not super healthy.
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.
Wait, he’s still in his probationary period at a new job and he committed to buying a new house?! The job isn’t even really yours until you’re hired permanently. You can be let go for any reason at all. (I know this the US, where worker protections suck even after that)
Getting a new probationary job means you can commit to going out for dinner to celebrate, not tying yourself down with a 20 year mortgage.
To clear up some of what you’re saying, it sounds like you’re applying private sector rules to government jobs.
Government probationary jobs have fewer protections than non-probationary, but they still have way more protections than the private sector. Once they make it past probation, government employees can only be fired after 30 days notice and an opportunity to challenge the firing in writing, so it takes a while to lay the groundwork for firing an employee. And then a fired employee has appeal rights.
While on probation, government employees don’t have the right to notice before firing, or an opportunity to challenge the firing before it happens, and their appeal rights are seriously limited. But the law is that they still can’t be fired except for poor performance.
Can you share a link for that info? A friend of mine is a probationary fed who just got fired, so I’m trying to help in any way that I can
This article compiles some information, but I know a lot of lawyers are currently going through the work of citing specific provisions and putting out guides to people’s rights.
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.
“… but objects to bring personally affected by the retribution he asked for.” ftfy
The conservative consequences.
Their first rule says:
- No racism or bigotry.
So… is it really a conservative community?
That’s a good point, didn’t they want to make it illegal to be against racism?
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 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)
Does that really mean anything though?
If you asked Trump himself if racism and bigotry were bad, he’d say yes. Then he’d go on to sign anti that hurt minorities and marginalized groups.
“random, scattershot approach” AKA “They did not only target the non-white people!”
Claiming to on some level support Trump as a government worker is just common sense at this point, regardless of what you actually believe.
There’s a sliver of a chance this article goes viral. If MAGA sees him as “one of them”, he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.
It’s kinda like some Chinese protests have signs glorifying the CCP and Xi.
If MAGA sees him as “one of them”, he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.
As if. MAGA doesn’t give a shot about injured veterans. For them, veterans are just an advertisement for the armed forces, and injured veterans taint the image. Also he’s a textbook DEI hire.
Okay can we stop it with the DEI sanewashing. It honestly feels like gaslighting. Anyone who worked in corporate America for the past few years could tell you that DEI placed an overwhelming emphasis on race/gender. Those HR girlies were in no way placing emphasis on disabled veterans.
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.
I’ve seen about 3 pop up in All so far. And I just block them as they appear.
I don’t block them, I down vote them.
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I can tell. There are plenty more just like you. Even reasonable articles that deserve consideration get automatic downvotes. How very mature. Ironically, that reminds me of conservative political sophistication.
Until a conservative sub can prove that it’s banned all Nazi and fascist content and is fully separated itself from support of the current administration and its attempted coup I will continue to downvote on sight. I refuse to pretend as though there is a reasonable middle ground to be struck and I don’t have to tolerate intolerance.
Echo, Echo, ^Echo…
ANyThInG tHaT dOEsNT TOleRaTe BrEiTbARt iS tHE ReAL EcHo ChAmBeR
Name one sitting conservative politician that isn’t sucking up to Donald Trump. Everything else is hot air.
Well, yes. What are your gonna do about it? 🤪 Here, have a downvote too. Honk honk.
I like having it around. It’s like seeing the bullied kid get bullied, but in this case they totally deserve it.
