I just moved across the atlantic for a civilian Federal government job that is honestly pretty fucking awesome and fulfilling job and 4 days in I’m worried about whether this dickhead is going to fire every new employee in the entire government. Spent all I had to come to rural Northeast lol
It’s so shitty. I have a colleague who is probationary who is literally waiting for his newborn to arrive and about to go on pat leave. And like, it took a long time to hire his position and we need his expertise, so if they terminate him arbitrarily, it will be horrible for him and we’ll be back to being fucked with no way to rehire the position.
Shit is so, so fucking bad. There’s thousands of people who got a job offer, moved across the country, spent their savings like I did only to get their offer rescinded. Despite the historically protected nature of government jobs, this admin is running this in ways not even shitty corporate entities would conduct personnel management. This is worse the treatment at will employees get.
I’m probably giving away too much but fuck it. I’m doing s critical job. My agency/office does a critical job. They froze all grants and awards. There’s farmers who need the work done and the funding to go through or they are fucking done. I got in and I was amazed that there’s three fucking engineers for the entire state, they were running a skeleton crew even before this new admin. These motherfuckers made a public showing of shutting down DEI as if the entire government just does jack shit. They sent an government wide email saying ‘if you are a government employee please report any and all person’s who adhere to the DEI ideology’ wtf lol.
Yeah my jaw dropped at that email. I reported it to our infosec. I knew it was probably legit, but it was so out of whack and weird, with anyone that is never used in govt emails that it absolutely got all the criteria that we get trained relentlessly for spam.
I think that’s one of the worst parts, this messaging that govt employees are just wasters… we do real critical work that keeps the country running, and this bullshit will have not just personal bad effects, but wide wide negative ramifications.
I still can’t quite believe that the situation you’re describing, ie the move, etc and then rescinding, can be legal, but who knows.
Also can’t imagine a worse time to cripple our health infrastructure while ERs are full of respiratory cases and H5N1 keeps balancing on the knife edge of major spillover.