Trump Fires Thousands Of Workers

[Hymie]

Those still within their probationary period have effectively been summarily dismissed, their termination letter read:-

 

 ‘Unfortunately, the Agency finds that you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the Agency's current needs, and your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment at the Agency.’

 

Apparently one former National Institutes of Health scientist said:-

‘Words cannot adequately express how financially screwed I am.’

 

I wonder how many of those sacked, were foolish enough to vote themselves out of a job – no sympathy from me.

[ToraToraTora]

what are you talking about?

[Hymie]

TTT appears to have no ability to find news stories on the WWW – yet he claims to be some software master – software master my ASSSSS.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thousands-of-probationary-federal-health-agency-workers-fired-by-letter-this-weekend/

[ToraToraTora]

It's up to you to provide the details of what you want to talk about, that's a basic courtesy. How do we know what you are talking about?

[ToraToraTora]

right so you are talking about federal health workers. How are we supposed to know that from your OP?

[ToraToraTora]

"The letter was signed by Jeffrey Anoka, acting head of human resources for the Department of Health and Human Services." - What has that got to do with Trump?

[Hymie]

You’d only have to google ‘US national institute health workers sacked’ to find loads of links to the story – how difficult is that for a software master?

[perseverer]

Perhaps read the full article in the link?

[douglas9401]

Okay.

First of all, "basic courtesy" 🤣

and second

Trump administration creates benefit recipients and potential workshy scum. An Englishman is torn.

[ToraToraTora]

not difficult but that's not clear from your OP. Why is it up to us to find what you are talking about?

It's wrong anyway, I have reported this as misleading and innacurate.

[douglas9401]

Englishman attempts to censor the internet!

[Canary42]

Every sympathy from me - because all MPs (and aspirants) are liars, you don't now what a useless count you've voted for until after they get in - e.g., our current PM.

[Spungle]

Excellent, drain the swamp.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

So,  Trump is doing what he was elected to do.  I think they'll survive without our sympathy.

[gulliver1]

Seems like histort repeating itself then Hymie just like the idiots in the UK who voted for Boris and Brexit ,then regretted it when they realised what a huge mistake they had made. It's know as shooting oneself in the foot

[Khandro]

UK should follow suit and sack a load of useless obstructive civil servants, working part-time on full pay. 

[vulcan42]

Trump, being Trump, will continue to fire thousands of workers and then congratulate himself by employing others to fill those places and saying he's creating jobs.

[Untitled]

this is not a very good idea

[New Judge]

“…because all MPs (and aspirants) are liars,”

That’s certainly true of most of our MPs. However, Mr Trump is doing precisely what he said he would do. He is reducing the number of people working on the State’s payroll. 
We could do with similar action here. The number of people working in the Civil Service and other State funded organisations in this country is ridiculous. As a the middle of last year there were 513,000 civil servants (the “proper” Civil Service which supports central government departments). There are almost certainly more now as the figure seems to rise by about 5% a year. Before the pandemic there were 420,000. The increase since then is 93,000 (22%). Nobody seems to be able to explain just what the country is getting for this additional “investment” because every public body seems to be short of staff..

But that is just the tip of the iceberg. It is estimated (and only estimated because I doubt anybody knows) that almost 6.5m people work in the “public sector”. Many of them are employed to provide essential services. But many of them are not. 

The UK could do with a cull of some of these jobs. It would enable hose displaced o do something useful which actually contributes to the country’s wellbeing. 

“I think they'll survive without our sympathy.”

Indeed they will. Here’s a snip from the report:

“Many scientists that CBS News spoke to said they had uprooted their lives for the chance to serve the federal government, sometimes taking steep pay cuts from what they could be earning in academia or the private sector.”

So it seems they should have no difficulty earning a crust elsewhere.

[Khandro]

Adding to what New Judge has said above, these surplus to requirement, civil servants are not only remunerated for doing little, they will be entitled to a very good pension when they retire, a pension which is better and securer than most.

[THECORBYLOON]

KHANDRO, why do you believe civil servants do very little?