So yeah, if you’ll remember, I got fired by the NRCS a month ago.
I miraculously got hired for the same Civil Engineering position by a private firm 2 weeks later (I was literally under/unemployed for 2 years so this was insane fortune).
I got a call from USDA telling me not only am I reinstated and getting back pay, I also have the chance to do the ‘deferred resignation’ bullshit Elon came up with so I’d get paid until September.
It’s great I’m literally getting paid to do nothing, it’s great I’m literally stealing funds from the great satan but but I feel bad because…
Well, because this money is not coming directly from the private coffers of Elon.
And I actually believed in the mission of the agency.
But 
I guess I come out of this winning (?) AND unquestionably fucking over the Federal government
I feel bad because…
Well, because this money is not coming directly from the private coffers of Elon.
I for one feel absolutely honored that my tax dollars are helping a fellow comrade get that bag
Thanks for your dollars ‘rad
enjoy my taxes, comrade.
wow such efficient DOGE
Squirrel that extra dough away
Trust me, this is basically how me and my partner managed to afford the down payment on our house
Get that bag
Thanks for trying to work for the NRCS - they do good work (imo) but are way underfunded and have a habit of grinding down good engineers. Maybe you’ll get to do their work on contract! I’ve designed a handful of ACEP sites as a consultant - NRCS has produced so many good resources for rural engineering and ecosystem restoration - it’s too bad they’ve gotten fucked up so much by austerity (and the the capitalist desire for converting ag land to development).
Thanks for trying to work for the NRCS - they do good work (imo) but are way underfunded and have a habit of grinding down good engineers.
It was nearly a perfect job, the people there are people I would take over anyone else in this shitty country; it was a fucking dream to get seemingly the perfect role for me after jerking off at my parents’ apartment for 2 years.
I left Puerto Rico to go live in bumfuck New England for 1 month of work. I even gave it a second thought to return, even after all this skullfuckery. It’s just way too risky given I already have a job in hand.
Yeah I hear that. I have no idea what I’m gonna do- I’m almost a “career” employee in the agency I’m at so I may as well stick it out and see if the outlook improves in that time, or see if they fire me - tbh maybe that would be the fun “change of pace” I’ve been craving haha. Good you’ve got something lined up though - the civil engineering world has been wild since 2020, kinda the opposite of the late 2000s- there’s just so much work to do - hope it’s doing something you like and can learn from in the mean time! And most importantly take some time to recover from getting jerked around
Please don’t feel bad.
the only thing you should feel bad about is not getting three paychecks
Hey, with how much he gets in government subsidies, it’s pretty much Elon’s money
So are you going back, staying at the private firm? Still figuring it out?
I was seriously considering it, and now that Elon is leaving, it might not be that fraught woth future terrors. But i’d probably be extremely irresponsible if I left my current job, I even make slightly more here…
t’s great I’m literally getting paid to do nothing, it’s great I’m literally stealing funds from the great satan but but I feel bad because…
And I actually believed in the mission of the agency.
Just remember that they’re not actually committed to the mission of the agency right now. Take the money, and work both jobs at the same time if you can get away with it.
I have some experience with the NRCS (not as an engineer, but a natural resources person doing maps etc) and while the frontline workers may believe in the mission, a lot of the farmers and ranchers who are clients just see it as a piggybank and couldn’t give less of a shit. They will jump to the highest bidder like Fish & Wildlife if it produces a few thousand more dollars over a 30 year period. Leadership is extremely fickle and incompetent (look how quickly they folded to DOGE), training is non-existent and you can be hired straight out of school and expected to take over programs for an entire county on your own while the rest of the office also has less than 6 months of experience. People in the state office will not help you, but will for sure call you the second you do anything wrong. It’s basically the stereotype of government inefficiency DOGE claims it is, not because workers are lazy, but the terrible structure of the organization and lack of incentives for people to stay in a role they are not respected in.
It sounds like the engineering side may be better, but for some other roles, it’s not great and I wouldn’t feel an ounce of remorse for getting free money out of them.
training is non-existent
you can be hired straight out of school and expected to take over programs for an entire county
Lmao but that’s the good part!
It’s great for credentials and you do learn a lot, but it’s not great feeling like you don’t know how to do your job correctly even a year later. Real trial by fire stuff that leads straight to burnout.
Oh yeah, it’s not such good thing when literal crops are rotting due to mismanaged the effluent runoff cause you literally don’t know shit
based
get that check sweety
