• zikzak025@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    What, so I can be underpaid to do the most stressful and undersupported job ever, with the chance that the next political controversy may force me to go weeks or months without pay, and then feel the guilt of killing several hundred people if I screw up?

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      6 hours ago

      Federal jobs used to be nice. Stable solid employment for the rest of your life. Nothing glamorous but you wouldn’t have to worry while the market goes up and down.

      And then last year that completely changed in a bad way

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      17 hours ago

      All because Reagan felt their power trip was more important than maintaining safety in a system entirely dependent on maintaining safety.