This happens all day everyday out in the real world. Learn to code.

Public sector unions... gfys

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(02-25-2025 07:36 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

This happens all day everyday out in the real world. Learn to code.

I feel empathy for people who for no fault of their own lose their jobs. It happened to me. However, the federal debt is at a dangerous level and it must be tamed.

A job in the private sector actually produces something.

Hate it that they lost their jobs but welcome to the private sector. All the rest of us have to deal with these kind of things.

(02-25-2025 08:39 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  A job in the private sector actually produces something.

Hate it that they lost their jobs but welcome to the private sector. All the rest of us have to deal with these kind of things.

At least every other year, and for each reorganization, buyout, etc.

I don't like it, either, but that is the way corporations work today. Have to produce more than your peer co-workers, or you become expendable, particularly as you age.

(02-25-2025 07:36 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

This happens all day everyday out in the real world. Learn to pick strawberries.

FIFY

Yeah, no doubt it sucks to lose your job and with all the layoffs and even more layoffs coming, finding a new job might end up being difficult. Also, while there are too many government workers who are lazy AF and don't do their jobs, there is always that one who is busting ass and doing the work of 2 or 3 of the lazy people. It really sucks that there is no real way to weed out the workers who are just there wasting hours and the one or two who are doing all of the work. At the same time, we have to clean up all the waste.

I got RIF’d a dozen years ago. It sucked and was a bit of an emotional roller coaster, but I got a new job two months later. In hindsight it was the best thing that happened to me, I got a little pay bump and the environment at the new place was much better than where I was.

There are millions of people who have felt with what these government workers are going through.

(02-26-2025 07:48 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  Yeah, no doubt it sucks to lose your job and with all the layoffs and even more layoffs coming, finding a new job might end up being difficult. Also, while there are too many government workers who are lazy AF and don't do their jobs, there is always that one who is busting ass and doing the work of 2 or 3 of the lazy people. It really sucks that there is no real way to weed out the workers who are just there wasting hours and the one or two who are doing all of the work. At the same time, we have to clean up all the waste.

And this is the rub....

I guarantee some good people are getting caught up in the sweep and that is a shame. But these "victims" are placing the blame on the wrong place.

Had the administrators (etc...) of these various agencies done it correctly in the first place, collateral damage like this could have been avoided. When you get in trouble for ratting out poor performers (and by-defacto condone that performance) the house cleaning is gonna take out everyone - not just those that suck.

See Union Mentality

(02-26-2025 08:05 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

lol Hey, that's my local CBS affiliate. I don't always watch it, but I do sometimes. All I'll say is they're a local news outfit.

I'll bet his definition of "work" is vastly different than most of ours.

(02-26-2025 10:34 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  I'll bet his definition of "work" is vastly different than most of ours.

Having dealt with those people for many years, I had a similar thought.

These IRS workers are going to be snatched up by corporations and put into finance and compliance departments rather quickly. They will be fine

(02-25-2025 07:53 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  

(02-25-2025 07:36 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

This happens all day everyday out in the real world. Learn to code.

I feel empathy for people who for no fault of their own lose their jobs. It happened to me. However, the federal debt is at a dangerous level and it must be tamed.

The budget the Republicans just passed cuts spending by $2T and revenue by $4.5T increasing the debt.

(02-26-2025 11:07 AM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(02-25-2025 07:53 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  

(02-25-2025 07:36 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

This happens all day everyday out in the real world. Learn to code.

I feel empathy for people who for no fault of their own lose their jobs. It happened to me. However, the federal debt is at a dangerous level and it must be tamed.

The budget the Republicans just passed cuts spending by $2T and revenue by $4.5T increasing the debt.

Cutting spending actually increases the debt? What the hell is this? Girl math? I need a source for that. Better yet, I need a new thread for that.

Ball's in your court there, sparky.

Revenue? Doesn't the word mean income? It might screw up their income but what does it contribute to the public if all it does is take away from it with the IRS earnings. Remember the gubmint does not generate revenue it sucks money out of people's pockets not put it into them. Sure, there will be less "revenue" from taxes (they say) but remember that before O' foggy hired 88000 more irs agents it was doing fine.

(02-26-2025 11:12 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(02-26-2025 11:07 AM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(02-25-2025 07:53 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  

(02-25-2025 07:36 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

This happens all day everyday out in the real world. Learn to code.

I feel empathy for people who for no fault of their own lose their jobs. It happened to me. However, the federal debt is at a dangerous level and it must be tamed.

The budget the Republicans just passed cuts spending by $2T and revenue by $4.5T increasing the debt.

Cutting spending actually increases the debt? What the hell is this? Girl math? I need a source for that. Better yet, I need a new thread for that.

Ball's in your court there, sparky.

Math. Second grade math. That is the answer to your question.

If you reduce tax revenue by 4.5T but only reduce spending by 2T you increase the federal deficit dummy.