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David Rice, a disabled Army paratrooper who has been on probation since joining the U.S. Department of Energy in September, also learned Thursday night that he had lost his job.
Rice, who has been working as a foreign affairs specialist on health matters relating to radiation exposure, said he’d been led to believe that his job would likely be safe. But on Thursday night, when he logged into his computer for a meeting with Japanese representatives, he saw an email saying he’d been fired.
“It’s just been chaos,” said Rice, 50, who had just bought a house in Melbourne, Florida, after he got the job.
Rice said he agrees with the Trump administration’s goal of making the government more efficient, but objects to the random, scattershot approach being taken.
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There is not a conservative community on Lemmy. There are, however, a few communities entirely composed of one guy posting conservative leaning articles that all get downvoted to zero and have a half dozen comments saying he’s wrong.
I love that so much…
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The Leopard feasts tonight
People act like it’s only government workers that are lazy and wasteful. But lazy workers are universal, especially with the soulless jobs that the vast majority of people have to do in order to survive.
Wait, he’s still in his probationary period at a new job and he committed to buying a new house?! The job isn’t even really yours until you’re hired permanently. You can be let go for any reason at all. (I know this the US, where worker protections suck even after that)
Getting a new probationary job means you can commit to going out for dinner to celebrate, not tying yourself down with a 20 year mortgage.
To clear up some of what you’re saying, it sounds like you’re applying private sector rules to government jobs.
Government probationary jobs have fewer protections than non-probationary, but they still have way more protections than the private sector. Once they make it past probation, government employees can only be fired after 30 days notice and an opportunity to challenge the firing in writing, so it takes a while to lay the groundwork for firing an employee. And then a fired employee has appeal rights.
While on probation, government employees don’t have the right to notice before firing, or an opportunity to challenge the firing before it happens, and their appeal rights are seriously limited. But the law is that they still can’t be fired except for poor performance.
Can you share a link for that info? A friend of mine is a probationary fed who just got fired, so I’m trying to help in any way that I can
This article compiles some information, but I know a lot of lawyers are currently going through the work of citing specific provisions and putting out guides to people’s rights.
They think other government workers are a waste but they themselves are a special case because reasons. It’s easy to criticize when you don’t understand what is going on. Hopefully they learn from this instead of thinking it’s an honest mistake.
“… but objects to bring personally affected by the retribution he asked for.” ftfy
The conservative consequences.
Their first rule says:
- No racism or bigotry.
So… is it really a conservative community?
That’s a good point, didn’t they want to make it illegal to be against racism?
Conservatism != racism
Frankly I’d love to see more non-racist conservatives on Lemmy! If we want the fediverse to replace big tech, we can’t be a left wing echo chamber
But yeah, you can’t be a dick
I can’t tell if this is leopard eating face, or dog getting nose rubbed in. That sub has always been very tolerant of people contradicting the narrative you usually see fostered on social media. Was it co-opted by non conservatives? Maybe? If so good.
That’s not contradictory to conservatism itself, only to the way it’s represented in the USA (and a few other countries, but in many countries there’s a right wing party and a center-right conservative party)
Does that really mean anything though?
If you asked Trump himself if racism and bigotry were bad, he’d say yes. Then he’d go on to sign anti that hurt minorities and marginalized groups.
“random, scattershot approach” AKA “They did not only target the non-white people!”
I like having it around. It’s like seeing the bullied kid get bullied, but in this case they totally deserve it.
The Political DEI, under the Orange Turd, did not save his ass. Oh well, zero sympathy and another classic FAFO case.
Oh noooooooo.
Oh well.
As a gov contractor is be all for improving efficiency but what is happening is the exact opposite.
Oh, not me though!
A disabled federal government worker who supports Trump. You have to be a special kind of clueless to be in all of those camps.
Did he think being a veteran would protect him from the fickle judgement of the guy who famously called dead and injured soldiers “suckers and losers”?
The article says he agrees with one point of the Trump administration, where I come from that doesn’t mean you support the entire administration’s point of view, but I might be wrong about that in the US
DEI allowed people with disabilities to work in government. This dipshit Trumper MAGA fuckwit thinks he was immune. Fuck him. Hope he gets everything he voted for.
That’s because Trumpers conveniently forget to mention the “A” in “DEIA”. The A stands for “Accessibility”. As in, accessibility for the disabled to actually be able to do their jobs with reasonable accommodations. If you kill DEI, you also kill accessibility.
Generally speaking disability rights has adopted civil rights language in its activitism so it’s also part of diversity. And equity… And inclusion.
That’s because they think DEI just means black. As usual they don’t know what the fuck they are talking about
Now now now, they also think it means you hire women.
I have yet to hear one of those fuckers IRL tell me what DEI stands for, they don’t know!
It stands for Donald, Eric, Ivanka.
DEI is the safe n word now.
theyd have him in a camp alright
