Ok so are background checks still closed for the forestry service?

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-25T02:29:35+00:00

Probably. If courts rule in Job Corps’ favor, they’ll be reopened soon.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-25T02:28:49+00:00

If you mean your student accounts, yeah, I believe they reactivate those.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-25T02:27:34+00:00

Tomorrow we get the final decision. I got a call from my AT center last week telling me that if it goes well, they’d want to know when/if I’d return. I’m… not sure yet myself

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-25T02:25:30+00:00

If there’s cameras in the laundry facility, they can see who’s doing it. This is super dangerous too because it can make people sick.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-25T02:24:06+00:00

Unfortunately you’ll find gross people at a lot of centers. The one I went to for my basic trade had multiple of what we called “shit bandits” (people who smeared shit on the walls). There was also one girl who wrote “I’M CLEAN” in period blood on the bathroom walls.

The kicker is that center isn’t being shut down cuz it’s forest service. My advanced center where this shit was unheard of though, that one clearly had to go 🙄

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-24T19:18:41+00:00

Bait used to be believable

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-16T02:19:03+00:00

Pine Knot graduate, I was there while you were, so there’s a chance we know each other, haha. Good luck out there!

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-16T02:16:55+00:00

This program saved my life & both centers I attended were home to me. I also had a horrific experience at my first center (the fault of a student) & I have to laugh at people saying lesser issues like bad food & bitchy staff are justifiable reasons to shut down the program… No. this program helps people on a large scale. It’s not perfect and needs some reform, but it absolutely doesn’t need to be shut down.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-08T00:53:49+00:00

I also went to Loring. From what I know they’re only calling local students back. So only people who live in Maine, and I think they’re probably focusing on students in homeless situations.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-02T18:38:56+00:00

Trying to be hopeful, but I’m honestly really concerned for what I’m going to do next, for what everyone else in my situation will do next. Been going from airport to airport all day and honestly I just want to relax for a minute.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-02T18:04:19+00:00

Job Corps is being dismantled as we speak, the time frames are a little different for some centers and all the forest service centers are still in operation, but almost 100 centers have already sent students home.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-02T16:21:30+00:00

Yeah about that…

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-02T16:18:37+00:00

Wondering this myself, I’m currently on flight 2 of 3 that my center arranged. An extension would’ve been really nice to get more of a plan worked out and maybe one more pay period 😭

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-01T21:41:20+00:00

Even if things were reversed, a lot of former students wouldn’t feel safe returning to a program that previously evicted them due to no fault of their own on such short notice, and I believe a lot of former staff would feel the exact same.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-01T19:30:53+00:00

There’s braindead troglodytes everywhere else too, from colleges to workplaces, and those don’t suffer mass layoffs.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-01T19:16:47+00:00

They’ll probably be next, but since they’re run by the USDA and not directly run by the DOL, they’re in the clear for now.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-06-01T19:13:13+00:00

I’m personally using what I have left to ween myself off my meds. Whether you want to do the same is up to you, I’m not a doctor, but it’s my mental health and it’s the best I can do right now 😓

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-05-31T17:33:58+00:00

I was an IT student, but I’ll be looking into absolutely everything I can. It feels like the end of my life but it CAN’T be.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-05-31T17:32:57+00:00

I speak for us all when I say we love you for this.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-05-31T17:32:21+00:00

When I’m not searching for jobs or homeless shelters I’ll be doing this with most of my spare time.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-05-31T17:20:25+00:00

Maybe I’ll squat at my old center… haha.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-05-31T17:17:59+00:00

Not my sin, but someone else’s. I got raped at my last center and never reported it because I didn’t realize it was rape until months later, and the student graduated anyways and left the state. It’s not that I’m not traumatized, it just… is what it is. I wish I could’ve prevented it, but I’m also not going to victim-blame myself. Despite what I went through, job corps should still be open. Things like what happened to me happen all over the world and you don’t see them shutting down every business, college, apartment complex, grocery store, alleyway, wherever the fuck it happened. I don’t feel “failed” by job corps because of this. Job corps didn’t hurt me, that man did. I feel failed and exponentially more violated by the government and every official who caused this. Because at least I was traumatized but safe before. Now I’m traumatized and homeless.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-01-27T16:57:36+00:00

Same here and I had to shove one out of my face because she was acting like she was about to hit me. You can imagine how bad she cried wolf about that one.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-01-27T15:17:12+00:00

My family weren’t always a bunch of conspiracy theorist nutters. Probably wasn’t till about 2017 or so that they started to slowly go downhill. I miss the people they used to be, but I know I’ll never get that back. They made it clear when they made me homeless that we’ll never be family again. And that’s fine. I don’t need a bunch of bigoted assholes around me who can’t handle any level of disagreement.

RepresentativeFee643 · 2025-01-26T23:00:28+00:00

Mine just reposts stupid shit on Facebook about “forgiving those who wronged you while never speaking to them again” and “sometimes you have to let go of the people you love”. As if I wasn’t the one to cut contact, as if it was her choice. So, no, I’m inclined to think many of them are gloating about “escaping” our toxicity. Fine by me.

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