I miraculously got hired for the same Civil Engineering position by a private firm 2 weeks later (I was literally under/unemployed for 2 years so this was insane fortune).

I got a call from USDA telling me not only am I reinstated and getting back pay, I also have the chance to do the ‘deferred resignation’ bullshit Elon came up with so I’d get paid until September.

It’s great I’m literally getting paid to do nothing, it’s great I’m literally stealing funds from the great satan but but I feel bad because…

Well, because this money is not coming directly from the private coffers of Elon.

And I actually believed in the mission of the agency.

But shrug-outta-hecks I guess I come out of this winning (?) AND unquestionably fucking over the Federal government

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[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

training is non-existent

you can be hired straight out of school and expected to take over programs for an entire county

Lmao but that’s the good part!

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's great for credentials and you do learn a lot, but it's not great feeling like you don't know how to do your job correctly even a year later. Real trial by fire stuff that leads straight to burnout.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, it’s not such good thing when literal crops are rotting due to mismanaged the effluent runoff cause you literally don’t know shit