US Politics on Yik Yak | Someone forgot about the shutdown in 2019. Understaffed National Parks were damaged and trashed, some beyond repair.

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Someone forgot about the shutdown in 2019. Understaffed National Parks were damaged and trashed, some beyond repair.

US Politics 5w

There’s not gonna be a shutdown lol Every year there’s a scare, every year there’s an 11th-hour negotiation

Anonymous 5w

national parks are already understaffed and trashed rn :/

Anonymous 5w

I sure did, didn’t I

Anonymous 5w

Speaking as a former NPS employee it needs to happen unfortunately. A large part of what happened that year is the parks were left open despite not having staff, and obviously that should be avoided. At the same time, there’s been a massive problem that’s coming to a head now but existed for decades where people love the parks, but see us workers as disposable. We’ve been understaffed long before I was hired and teetering on massive collapse. Shit, no ranger who onboarded after the 80s even 1/2

Anonymous

#2 5w

No this was to another level.

Anonymous

#1 5w

I didn’t intend to

Anonymous

OP 5w

oh im sure but theyre already bad rn bc off trumps cuts

Anonymous

#2 5w

Yeah I’m not denying that

Anonymous

#1 5w

I didn’t mean to sound like a smart ass. It’s just people say this every time this happens but we can’t ever say that because it’s happened before and ruins the country, and economy

Anonymous

OP 5w

Don’t worry, I understand, and you didn’t sound like one I genuinely forgot about 2019, thought the last shutdown was under Obama

Anonymous

#3 5w

Gets a pension. There’s been a lot done to keep up a facade of normalcy, mostly because we care a lot about the public we serve and don’t want them to be negatively affected, but I know a huge portion of current employees are on the same page that the public needs to see the consequences if we continue to be cut/exploited.