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the federal workforce is gonna be so fucked for the next like 20 years. nobody is gonna want to work there, stability and wlb was the only reason to work for the gov but that’s gone. recruiting is gonna be a nightmare until everyone forgets
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Anonymous 9w

Can confirm as a federal worker this is a fucking mess. So many of my colleagues are just at their limit with being shat on and told by the government and the public that we’re lazy, corrupt, working against the interests of the public etc., especially when none of us is doing this for the money. Everyone I know in civil service would not be here if we didn’t love our country, not in the sense of loving the state but of loving the people in it. And I can tell you having worked in private 1/2

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Anonymous 9w

It's so sad. All these other countries have great public sector STEM investments. Like china just built a train faster than planes for example. And we're decimating science to fund billionaire tax cuts.

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Anonymous 9w

Already kinda was. For a long time, at least in the tech positions, the government wasn’t necessarily hiring the top talent. They were hiring people who found honor in civil service, people who were willing to trade pay for job security and benefits, and people who couldn’t get jobs elsewhere but happened to not smoke weed. Those first two groups are gone, along with the top talent

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

it’s like they know china’s ahead of us in technology and are just conceding it and giving what’s left of this country to their rich friends. just imagine what the public would’ve said if our president did this during the space race, there would have been fucking outrage

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

Hold up how fast is the train?! That’s absurd

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w
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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

that’s insane

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

Sector as well, we work as hard if not harder than those people, not in small part because we’ve been understaffed and underfunded for decades. And so the rhetoric from the right currently is a slap in the face that won’t soon be forgotten. A strong bureaucracy isn’t sexy but it’s so so important to acting as a barrier to dictatorship.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

That’s crazyyyyy. Might be a while before we see it though because I can imagine there needs to be tons of safety testing. Idk much about maglev though

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

Exactly. And these people think bureaucracy is something unique to the public sector as though corporate America is free of bs and red tape 🤣

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

I would have loved to work for USDS (the agency that was eventually turned into DOGE) but was denied (apparently there were tens of thousands of applicants). I dodged a bullet but under Biden and Harris it would have probably been a pretty cool place to work

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

Yes!!! And to your point about tens of thousands of applicants: people act like they’re just dragging people off the street but jobs are so hard to get!!! Everyone I work with is so qualified and smart and talented!!! They’re firing and pushing out some of the most talented and dedicated people in the nation and being cheered on by large parts of the public, and they’re never going to get these folks back, nor are they going to have the large pool of qualified candidates they have historically.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

Don’t even get me started on the new hiring guidelines with essays and too-short CVs they announced last week

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

Omg what are the new guidelines 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

i genuinely considered going the government route w my degree, like using my skills and knowledge in way that helps my country and in extension communities and people i care about, it would be rewarding, on top of that the government jobs are known for being stable if you’re competent and having good benefits as well as wlb (dependent on agency but for my degree - accounting) it’s very discouraging.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9w

i could work for a big firm and everyone would assume i’m smart and hardworking and skilled, but if i instead chose to gov route the stigma is “lazy waste of my taxes” like people don’t think about they’re insurance premiums going to big corporate guys pockets, they like getting ripped off, but when there money goes towards someone literally working for you it’s a waste??? and i’m sure some programs could be flattened, but that’s not what’s happening

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