Bless their hearts
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Former U.S. Army First Sergeant Nelson Feliz, Sr. was among those receiving a termination email.
“We’re mistreated,” Feliz told Channel 2′s Richard Elliot. “We’ve been betrayed.”
The “Notice of Termination” email from the VA to Feliz stated, “The agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest.”
“I was a first sergeant. My job was to take care of troops, making sure they were paid, fed, and slept. Why is this happening to us? I’ve been here too long for this to be happening,” Feliz said.
Feliz said he’s been a VA employee for more than 12 years but just started in a new position in which he’s still in his probationary period, the layoff selected probationary employees for termination.
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What does that have to do with this? These guys were let go because they were probationary despite their decade+ of experience.
VA hospitals are all over the country. USDA employees are everywhere there are plants to inspect.
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What does that have to do with this? These guys were let go because they were probationary despite their decade+ of experience.
VA hospitals are all over the country. USDA employees are everywhere there are plants to inspect.
@jon-nyc I'm sure you intended a granular point that my post has nothing to do with. Please pardon me if I don't work too hard to discover the specifics of that granular point. My point is that sometimes, people support a political side that in certain specific ways might work directly against them.
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But maybe publicizing a few will tamper down the glee with which the maga right has greeted these individual job losses. At the end of the day all these people did was apply for a decent job.
Agreeing with the cuts is one thing, celebrating the tragedies the individuals are going through (let me know if you’d like receipts, but I’m sure everyone here has seen it) quite another.
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Every dollar we cut is a dollar that doesn’t go to increase the debt, and we have a long, long way to go.
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It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.
@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:
It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.
You can piss in your pants, too, if you want a warm , fuzzy feeling. Doesn't pay off a damn thing.
