Summary
Elon Musk is facing criticism for targeting Ashley Thomas, a federal climate official, by reposting a right-wing troll’s comment labeling her job as a “fake job.”
Musk’s actions, reminiscent of his past harassment of ex-Twitter employee Yoel Roth, prompted concerns about the safety of federal employees.
This comes as Musk prepares to co-lead Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, aiming to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget, potentially outsourcing roles to private companies.
Critics argue Musk’s tactics intimidate public servants while benefiting billionaire-owned businesses.
That’s funny from a guy who just got appointed to a made up job in a made up department.
The thing is, it’s already effective…
VA has scheduled more retirements for December than they’ve ever had in a single month, and that includes 2016. Not unique to them either, it’s up pretty much across the board with all the agencies.
It’s fucking infuriating because federal employees have some of the strongest unions in the country, but everytime a shit head gets elected, all the senior people with a sense of ethics decide to get out of the way opening up senior positions for people without ethical concerns of the incoming administration.
As fucked up as it is to say it, shit hasn’t gotten bad enough that people want to fight. They still think they’ll be better off staying out of it.
If anybody wants one less person in the federal government who will just do whatever trump says and won’t resign when things start to suck (they’re gonna suck). Then be the change you want to see. Don’t let them be the only ones trying to get a spot.
There’s a reason Republicans are constantly trying to get good people to quit federal service.
I look forward to you taking a government job under a hostile administration with your coworkers constantly looking to make your life hell and get you fired, endangering your career and making financial security impossible. Hopefully you don’t have a family. I appreciate that you’re willing to make this sacrifice for us, @givesomefucks@lemmy.world.
What you describe could be said about any management job, government or private.
I didn’t realize the Department Of Giving Up had a presence on lemmy.
edit: on further inspection, if you check the comment history of this account, you can piece together a picture of a professional wet blanket turned loose by an evil empire to bum a resistance out with low-energy snark.
I personally recommend a block.
Hey, for all you know I served in the military under GW, and this isn’t even going to be my first 4 years as a federal employee under trump…
You do realize there’s a shit ton of people who would fit that…
Right?
And that someone who’s lived that life, would often be highly opinionated about politics and tend to often have insights into how shit works? That they would have been a little stressed about this election and spent the run up trying desperately to convince people to take the path most likely to get a Dem in office at every step of the process?
Like, this is the Internet, I could also just be a dog or an edgy teenager sitting in study hall…
But what’s the point in you trying to dissuade good people from entering federal service in either case?
Keep dissembling. 🙄
Right on bud…
Have fun spending your time online convincing people not to fight fascism then I guess.
I don’t know if this is a good enough reason to encourage someone to work for the government. It’s a dead end for good people so you need to play the game, be happy with being a drone, or leave.
No movement is going to stop the momentum at this point. This reactor is going to have to spin itself faster until it breaks.
Cool…
So you think that nothing can be fixed so you personally have given up on fixing things.
That is your choice, and I won’t try to talk you out of it.
Can you please show the other side the same decency, and not try to talk them out of doing whatever is possible to fix shit?
If you’re right it doesn’t matter. If you’re wrong, and shit gets fixed…
Well, that works out even better for everyone, including yourself.
If you’re going to disengage, then disengage. Dont hang around trying to talk people into also giving up.
If you’ve applied to several hundred jobs on USAjobs already, even with full veterans preference, you already know you’ll basically need a professional Government resume writer to assist you if you want anything higher than, like, a GS-8.
Shotgun method.
Don’t use a one page resume, make it like 5 pages and talk about everything
The fact that he’s going to rinse NASA and no one can stop him despite the obvious conflict is wild.
Elon Musk is a dog shit human being…
I was right there with you until that last bit. He’s definitely a dog shit.
the absolute audacity of this piece of shit, who has demonstrated that he has the fakest job on earth, literally doing nothing but scrolling through twitter all day, calling someone else’s job fake. even after sucking up to the president elect the best he got was a fake position on a fake agency that’s not even official. fucking clown.
A trillion? That’s it? That’s literally the budget deficit after Trump’s corporate tax cuts from 35% to 21% (18% to 11% effective) .
Repeal the TJCA
What’s next?
Privitizing will obviously be more, not less, expensive. These supposed prodigies of wealth generation think creating middlemen is a good call? Elon makes 80% of his money through the government and the rest through stupid investors, I guess he well represents the middleman class.
I’d rather musk get hacked than Andrew Tate.
His time will come.
Can have both
The Vice-President is really getting into action!
I bet nothing is cut from the hundreds of billions used to murder people around the globe and funnel money into weapons manufacturers pockets
Well, yeah, “federal climate official” is a fake job. The United States is on track to destroy the climate, so what the fuck is her job supposed to be?
Well we voted the world’s biggest cyberbully into office, eyes wide open.
Too bad Melania’s campaign didn’t work…
I’d say he’s just finishing his transition to being a full on comic book style supervillain, but honestly Lex Luthor would have more class than this
I would say he is more a Mysterio than a Lex Luther.
Lately he seems more like Bizzaro to me. He has more power than anyone but he comes across as a dumb meathead now who thinks doing bad things is good so he wants to beat up all the heroes
The hard part is that he speaks better than most of the dumbasses. So he’s the smart dumbass.
…have you ever actually seen Elon Musk speak? 😄
Fun* fact: Lex Luthor is short for “Lexicon Lutherson”
*but untrue
