President Trump offered no compassion, only contempt.
And water is wet.
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Trump always had that 'ruthless cold calculating vindictive asshole' as part of his persona since forever. How could anyone think he has any compassion for anyone or anything?
Edit: even his pardons were done entirely for his proven jackbooted thugs, like the Jan 6th rioters who have proven that they are willing to fight and kill on his behalf. He needs them to do whatever bidding he will have in the future.
Dude. I and a couple of friends have been job hunting and actively applying for tons of positions for months and none of us have been able to land jack squat. This job market is a rolling disaster
I can say that its not because demand for labor isn't out there. But the actual process of matching employers and staff has been a train-wreck for a while. My HR department gets thousands of applications a day that are pure spam. We get deluged with solicitations from headhunters who serve up any warm body with a half-written resume. I can point to half a dozen people we did hire who were hired and gone inside a few months, because they were either incapable of doing the work or just fucking around looking for the next rung on the ladder.
There's a certain paralysis that comes with trying to find candidates in a river of shit. In the end, we tend to pull directly from college through our Analyst Development Program or through contractors without non-compete clauses, because its easier than fishing in the scams pond.
When you do find people qualified in the wild, its like hitting a gold mine. The folks who have been on-boarded successfully will often bring on two or three people behind them, simply because managers trust them to find like-minded and like-talented people.
Yeah. My profession has a hollowed out set of qualified people and getting people up to speed has been challenging.
I've never had the fun of interviewing or sifting through applicants and I don't think I'd miss it if I never get to do so
I've been hearing this for over 2 yearS where i live. It's ROUGH. I'm trying to hold onto my job as long as i can, the only places hiring around here are retail for cashiers and fast food places for $13 an hour at most.
But the department of labor says everything is awesome now.
This totally makes sense. Trump thinks that his tariffs are a weapon to get foreign companies to invest in manufacturing in the US. But, all they really do is make procurement in the US a nightmare. Then, add a hostile environment regarding obtaining visas for employees into the mix, and foreign companies end up severely curtailing their investment in the US. Less investment means fewer jobs.
I think history will look to that immigration raid on the Hyundai plant as a turning point. Before that raid, many companies might have taken Trump seriously when he said that he was encouraging investment in the US. But that raid proved that foreigners will always be seen as "others" by this government, never as a full partner.
Yup. No one is going to invest many many millions into building production capability, especially for bottom tier commodities like furniture or raw steel, based on the whims of one extremist administration.
Investors hate a unpredictable market. Trump's constant changes and insane policies make the US very uncomfortable for any business.
Exactly. This is why countries with unstable governments just keep struggling since no one trusts them with their investment $.
No reasonable company would send their citizens to work in the USA when there is every possibility that they could be indefinitely detained or "deported" to some third world gulag at the whim of the Trump administration.
I'd go, but you would have to pay me for the risk, insure me over the ears and have a lawyer on standby.
German and Swiss multinationals are very reluctant to send employees to the US for meetings or conferences already, and that’s just the beginning.
A newly revealed memo from the Office of Management and Budget claims that federal workers forced into furlough during the ongoing shutdown may not receive back pay once the ordeal ends. In open defiance of the law, the administration argues that the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act does not automatically guarantee wages to workers sent home or ordered to labor without compensation. The government that once promised fairness has now declared that those who serve it may be discarded. This is not confusion. It is control.
Eventually people are gonna decide that working for free sucks and they just won't come in.
Sadly, that is the point. Part of project 2025 is to remove as many workers as they can and when a position needs to be filled, make sure it's a loyalist. This is just the means to an end for the fascist.
when a position needs to be filled, make sure it’s a loyalist
Mostly inept, incompetent, stupid loyalists.
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We can let the seats be empty and stop them from filling it with anyone if the government stays shutdown and we also get the benefit of the armed forces and ice not being paid so they will stop kidnapping people
Are you kidding? That's their fucking dream job. They'd even pay just for the privilege. Fucking pigs
gee I wonder why air traffic controllers are getting sick.
It's perfectly valid, and expected, that ATC would call in sick if they so much as didn't sleep well. One mistake could cause the deaths of hundreds of people. Sean Duffy did threaten them with firings if they call in sick, but the policies didn't change
I'd say the vast majority calling in sick legitimately are unfit to work. The stress of non-payment is not conducive to that type of work, especially when their wages have fallen ~40% relative to inflation over the past 20 years
I think the worst part is that Trump openly flirted with paying only the people he likes - his MAGA folks, and only the parts of government he likes. You work on wind turbine safety? No pay for you.
All of this is just part of their plan to drastically shrink the government to a size where you can drown it in the bathtub.
Can we throw a toaster in there too?
i'll get an extension cord
As a resident of the west coast I was confused for a good 2 seconds about what my state had to do with this data.
Dude so I live in Wisconsin which has a capital building that looks identical to the one in DC save for having 2 more wings than DC's. There's been news articles that say "such and such happened at the capital" never specify which capital, and have an ambiguous photo that could be either DC or Madison, and I just have to shrug and go "I guess I'll learn later if that's local news or national"
The struggle is real! However, if you look closely, the U.S. capitol has a row of oval windows inset in its dome that the Wisconsin capitol does not have.
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