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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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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

I love that so much..

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 58 points 6 days ago

Our leopards are starting to look a bit, uh, not super healthy.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In the jungle, the mighty jungle

The Leopard feasts tonight

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] gimmelemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

"... but objects to bring personally affected by the retribution he asked for." ftfy

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 6 days ago

The conservative consequences.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Their first rule says:

  1. No racism or bigotry.

So... is it really a conservative community?

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

That's a good point, didn't they want to make it illegal to be against racism?

[–] doylio@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

"random, scattershot approach" AKA "They did not only target the non-white people!"

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How braindead do you have to be to equate efficiency with destruction?!

Unless of course, destruction is the point.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Lots of folks want it all to burn down, not see it healed. Accelerationism is not unique to maga, they just differ in what they hope comes next

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago

Some want a levelling of the playing field, others want an opportunity to seize absolute power.

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've seen about 3 pop up in All so far. And I just block them as they appear.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I don't block them, I down vote them.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I like having it around. It's like seeing the bullied kid get bullied, but in this case they totally deserve it.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

The Political DEI, under the Orange Turd, did not save his ass. Oh well, zero sympathy and another classic FAFO case.

[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Oh noooooooo.

Oh well.

[–] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

As a gov contractor is be all for improving efficiency but what is happening is the exact opposite.

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