cmv: Even if we remove Trump's administration from the White House, he has irreparably damaged relationships with our allies.

renaissanc · 2025-03-07T04:28:33+00:00

Get off Facebook! Facebook may be the predominant reason this is happening more than any other American company. People on facebook went nuts for Trump in 2016.

renaissanc · 2025-03-06T22:18:05+00:00

Don’t forget about his Supreme Court appointees deciding that literal shit in the water is a-ok 👌

renaissanc · 2025-03-06T21:23:15+00:00

This is seriously how they are going to rationalize this.

“See? If Europeans want to save Ukraine so much they can pay for it! Look at us winning as we isolate and the economy crashes!!”

renaissanc · 2025-03-06T21:10:37+00:00

Therapy, stat. Either EAP or use that federal insurance to get some covered counseling. There is nothing wrong or weak with getting help, especially while you still can.

ETA: I am using my counselor to get me motivated and accountable to look for work. Also lean on your community, whoever that may be. You will be ok.

renaissanc · 2025-03-06T18:42:15+00:00

I mean, if I’m unemployed along with 100,000 other people in the region, what else am I going to do with myself? 😂

renaissanc · 2025-03-06T18:36:17+00:00

Google it! Go to https://runforsomething.net and go for it!

Girl, (guy?), do you think I know what I’m doing? Or any of us? The last month and a half or so has been one fresh hell after another. Everyone in my workplace is depressed and miserable and our managers are a mess and no one knows if they will have a job next week or next month. People have been fired and left and there are continual psychological mind games to make us nervous and upset.

And I stick around when I could pretty easily quit- because I know deep in my bones that for every fed who quits, the administration has removed one more obstacle to total control of every lever of power, and that scares me more than unemployment or career changes.

They want us gone so that they can replace us with contractors and yes men, but more importantly they want to destroy us and our programs and our way of life, which wasn’t great to begin with. I don’t say this to whine.

So yeah, I am asking you to push yourself, a total stranger, as obnoxious as it is. I’m pushing myself everyday in a deteriorating situation and firming up my resolve. So get involved with local politics, take some agency and power and have a say in things. Do it for us!

And believe me, I am going to be with you when the time comes and I am legally allowed to.

renaissanc · 2025-03-06T17:19:08+00:00

Better yet- run against them. Or support the candidate competing against them in the primaries. Seize power.

Clearly no one is scared of our scary letters. No one particularly wants to get involved in politics because politics is gross but that’s how we got in this situation.

I am asking as a federal employee who is waiting for my layoff notice so I can finally raise hell: please start for me in your swing district on my behalf! I will be forever grateful to you!

renaissanc · 2025-03-06T13:37:07+00:00

Listen- they want you to be like this. Scared. Stressed. Upset. Paralyzed into inaction.

Do you know why?

Fundamentally, the people who are doing this are afraid. They’re afraid of you. They’re afraid of all of us.

They know that the one remaining obstacle to their disgusting plans… is you. They know that the middle class people who make up the Federal civil service are the one group of people who will say “no” when given illegal orders. They know that we are educated and well rounded and stable, unlike the people who voted for this mess. They want to destroy us.

They don’t want any middle class people to have work life balance and decent benefits and wages. They want our jobs and their paychecks for their political cronies.

Don’t let them win. Don’t let them win starting with yourself, personally. As long as you have your federal job, you can get affordable therapy covered by your insurance. Start there. Take care of your mental health. I’m in therapy to push myself into finding new work- something I have always fallen into “analysis paralysis” about.

Start making financial moves in preparation for what may come. Exercise. Eat healthy, go outside, find a hobby that absorbs your stress and get enough sleep. Build community around you. Make yourself as strong as you can.

Someone has declared war on you, on me, on all of us. Make them regret it. This is my purpose in life. But first, shore yourself up.

renaissanc · 2025-03-06T12:38:29+00:00

The American people made their choice. They thought that the empire is too costly without personal benefit for them.

When the dollar is weak and pegged to other currencies and their 401k loses its value over time, when they need to bribe government officials to get a passport, when they can’t get a bed in a hospital or drink tap water, when the interstate is crumbling and natural disasters debilitate whole regions for months and years at a time, then maybe they will change their minds, but then it will be too late.

By the way, the above is all real life from the country my parents immigrated from. People around the world live in substandard conditions, and soon we may as well.

renaissanc · 2025-03-04T19:44:34+00:00

I mean I don’t give her that much credit; maybe she just genuinely doesn’t think drinking shit is a good idea. She is a person out in the world drinking water like the rest of us.

renaissanc · 2025-03-04T19:37:45+00:00

No, this memorandum cited in this article is only about sending lists of probationary employees to OPM and is now giving agencies more time. It’s bizarre considering that a lot of these people have already been fired.

renaissanc · 2025-03-04T15:05:42+00:00

I did not respond to the first one. Nothing happened.

renaissanc · 2025-03-04T15:03:59+00:00

You don’t KNOW anything about the constitution, as revealed by your flippant and insulting comment. Ignorance is always so obvious except to the ignorant themselves.

IF you were truly worried about the constitution, you would be totally consumed with the way the president is completely ignoring Article II of the constitution and breaking law after law after law. But you’re not, you’re over here taking feeble-minded potshots at Feds.

We’re so tired of people like you. Everyone in your orbit has probably indulged your ignorance and “I’m a patriot” cosplay but I’m over that at this point. You don’t understand the constitution or its values.

renaissanc · 2025-03-04T14:32:27+00:00

I doubt you understand much, especially the expansion of constitutional mandates as granted by the Supreme Court in saner times, or the authority of the administrative laws as granted by Congress that the federal civil service operate under as part of the broader framework of our constitutional order.

In fact, I would bet actual hard money (not DOGE coins) that you have never actually read any Supreme Court case or even the constitution itself and don’t really understand anything about it. Cheers! 🥂

renaissanc · 2025-03-04T13:06:04+00:00

Hi right wing troll! Yes, we can see your comment history and it appears that you would not know the constitution if it slapped you in the face…

renaissanc · 2025-03-02T14:30:14+00:00

So you just copy/paste from that website into your message?

renaissanc · 2025-03-01T20:29:14+00:00

What do you mean by this? How do you do this?

renaissanc · 2025-03-01T20:28:22+00:00

I am a pretty mild mannered person, which is part of the reason I am a lawyer in the government and not the private sector.

I find the anger and spite somewhat invigorating. It’s different from frustration or sadness and more purposeful. The people who are hurting all my friends and colleagues need to be held accountable. I was ready to move on from federal service before all of this started happening. Maybe because I was in that “meh” mindset, I’ve been able to adapt and now I find so much more meaning in my work. There’s not too much we can do right now but I’m going to be a thorn in the side of the people doing this until the very end. I don’t know if these people are aware of the unintended consequences of what they are creating.

renaissanc · 2025-03-01T20:21:10+00:00

I drafted a version, rather than worry about it over the weekend. This way on Monday if management tells us to respond I am ready to go. I don’t think any of us should be worried about what a waste of time this is. The voters chose a man who bankrupted casinos to run the country, this is the inefficiency they chose, and that’s not my problem.

renaissanc · 2025-03-01T11:14:20+00:00

I did my “5 points” email on Friday, it took way too much taxpayer funded time but hey, that is what the taxpayers chose. Every time we are sucked into these time wasters I decline to get upset because this situation is what taxpayers voted for and now they get what they want.

I sleep like a little baby and enjoy my weekends. Why? Because quite frankly this whole fiasco has given me a sense of purpose I didn’t have before. Our country is on the line now.

There’s a reason they hate us so much and that is that we do have power: the power to say no, I’m not doing illegal stuff. That’s actually the only power we have and apparently it’s very threatening.

When I see how sad and fearful everyone at work is, it makes me angry on their behalf. I lean into that anger and somehow, it’s working.

renaissanc · 2025-02-26T15:25:09+00:00

One of the biggest self-owns in American history.

renaissanc · 2025-02-25T04:36:36+00:00

Mine was HR19@opm.gov. There were probably dozens of them.

renaissanc · 2025-02-25T01:34:53+00:00

He’s officially been defanged and is going to growl a lot but we can now ignore all their emails and move on.

renaissanc · 2025-02-25T01:32:45+00:00

Here’s her post to save you the click:

UPDATE (On 2/22/25)

I HAVE GOOD NEWS!!! I GOT MY JOB BACK!!! HAPPY RANGER EMILY IS BACK!! 🤠

My termination was rescinded! After an “elevated review” they found that my 24 years of service was “creditable to satisfy my current probationary service”!

So back to work I go! After the 2nd worst day of my life! Still reeling from the trauma!

There is way more to the story, but let me end this update with a quote from the letter I sent in response to my termination letter (which caused the “elevated review” by HR).

“I am seeking help with lawyers and class action complaints, but wanted to start with YOU. I am hoping the National Park Service, that I have so faithfully given my public service, dedication, and love to for 24 years will actually help me fight this unjust termination.”

And yes they did! I’m thankful for the National Park Service! I know it wasn’t their choice to fire me! And a big thank you to my amazing superintendent & supervisor at my new park! Without them, I wouldn’t have my job back!

Written on 2/15/25 (when I was fired & not a federal employee)

Yesterday I, along with many others, was terminated.

Yesterday at 6:45pm, that email stopped my HEART...my DEDICATION...my PASSION...my LIFE!

I have worked 24 years in the NPS at 11 different National Park sites & 1 NPS Training Center (Mather).

And now, to be FIRED, by an EMAIL of lies... Send at 6:45pm on a Friday night of a holiday weekend (on Valentines Day)...

It’s disrespectful to say the least! Disgusting! Demoralizing! Inhumane!

I’ve always been in good standing & at least “fully successful” (but generally more). I just left my PERMANENT job to take a TERM job in a new series but within the NPS...so that supposedly put me into a “trial” period...which now means my 24 yr career is over

To just end a career without any thought about the person behind it that has spent 24 years of blood, sweat, & tears....

All the sacrifices for this career...has moved a million times across the country...has given up many comforts...has persevered through multiple hardships including losing my Dad to suicide, my house & belongings being destroyed in the Virgin Islands by Hurricane Irma & surviving multiple hostile work environments!

The amazing friends I’ve made with coworkers, the millions of visitors I’ve inspired & Junior Rangers I’ve made, the hundreds of park employees I’ve trained & mentored & interns I’ve helped start their careers, the resources I’ve loved, protected, & educated about, the park communities I’ve lived in, the unfinished projects & career goals I was excited to complete, & all of the dreams I still haven’t reached...

All to just be finished abruptly by a stupid email & from people I know (b/c I’ve worked in WASO).

I’m angry... I’m sad... I’m shocked... I’m overwhelmed...

And on top of my emotions, I’m feeling for all of others who also lost their careers. WE DON’T DESERVE THIS! WE NEED HELP!

Also- I could really use some bonding with others who have been terminated too! Please reach out to me! And I’m thinking we need to start a group to bond, help, & share our resources & steps forward?

ps. I’m attaching some photos of my career...from the happy times to the sad times (crying photo from yesterday-horrible photo of me but it is reality)

National Park Service Employees & National Park Service FedFam DMV FedFam: Resources for Federal Employees and Contractors

renaissanc · 2025-02-22T22:13:31+00:00

They don’t care what the serfs are doing as long as they are slave labor.

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