Working toward the Elon
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The servile lickspittles heading the NSF fired a bunch of people they weren’t even ordered to fire:
The National Science Foundation went beyond the staff cuts demanded by the Trump administration in a move that set off a frenzied backlash at the science funding agency.
NSF fired about 10 percent of its staff at the end of Tuesday, removing 168 people who included most of the agency’s probationary employees and all of its experts, a class of contract workers who are specialists in niche scientific fields.
The agency didn’t have to fire its experts but decided to in the interest of fairness, a top NSF official told staffers in an emotionally charged hybrid meeting Tuesday morning at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.
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The announcement prompted outrage, confusion and concern from people at the meeting, resulting in a string of scathing all-staff emails from impacted workers.
“You are presenting us as trophies in front of OPM,” one angry employee said in the meeting, referring to the Office of Personnel Management, according to the transcript. “I don’t want to hear anything about how you are sad, how you feel bad for everyone who’s losing their job today.”
“You screwed people, hardworking people, who trusted the word of this agency, left their careers, wherever they came from,” they added. “That’s on all of you. Take some accountability.”
If only the DEEP STATE was nearly as willing to stand up for itself as its enemies think.