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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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[–] [email protected] 45 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I love that so much..

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In the jungle, the mighty jungle

The Leopard feasts tonight

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

The conservative consequences.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Their first rule says:

  1. No racism or bigotry.

So... is it really a conservative community?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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)

[–] Zink 1 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Oh noooooooo.

Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Oh, not me though!

[–] [email protected] 193 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

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

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