I have two daughters, both in computer science. They both had accepted job offers at the same intelligence agency to start in June…until today when the older daughter was told her offer was rescinded. Younger daughter (who is traveling home from college today) is on tenterhooks waiting for a similar call.
This affects the intelligence community. You know, those folks who are trying to keep us safe?
Trump supporters: F*** YOU.
Update: second daughter just texted wrt a voice message “Yes. She identified herself and told me to give her a call back about my offer status so i’s certainly not going to be good news.”
Joking about both daughters losing job offers isn’t funny. They’ve likely missed out on other job opportunities because they thought they had these jobs. I wouldn’t be happy if my kids missed out on jobs because of a couple of fuckwits messing with our country.
Lucky for them that they haven’t done anything irreversible, like sign leases or give notice to current employer (in the case of the oldest). There are so many others out there whose timing was really bad and are now stuck in bad situations. So much needless misery.
The amazing thing is Trump is more popular now than his first term.
He has done a masterful job in making Americans feel like they are “winning”, this is the “right” path, etc.
Time well tell. As I have said from the beginning of he and house R’s are this unpopular dems should get A LOT more seats in 2026, but I do not see that happening.
our kids will have to pack more resilience into the next couple years than my husband and i weathered in 30. I tell myself it will be good for them. It sounds like your girls are extremely qualified and will find their way despite this BS
But I do remember all the concerns expressed here in the last 4 years about “the folks who are trying to keep us safe” while millions of illegals, including terrorists, walked across our non-existent borders.
It’s a fond memory stored right next to all the cheering that went on for employment reports here that were loaded with BS government jobs (and even then all later had to be revised down).
On the bright side I don’t think a lot of coal miners who were told to learn to code actually ever did so…
consider all this lack of empathy a response to your “trump supporters” posiiton.
" No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. People can easily be persuaded to accept the most inferior ideas or useless products"
No matter how chaotic Trump’s administration is @windywave, who totally does not support him, will jump to minimize the chaos and mock those that are affected by it.
Just for perspective, this isn’t DOGE. President Trump instituted a similar federal hiring freeze in 2017, for basically the same purposes.
I’m sure it doesn’t help any feelings of angst you may have at home for your daughters, but this probably should be surprising at this point. It’s been a few weeks since SECDEF ordered no new hires, including people who were already theoretically hired but hadn’t onboarded yet.
America will be great again day 1, and by day 1 I mean this is a long term process and things may get uncomfortable for a while, and by uncomfortable I mean I’m going to screw a whole lot of people and crash the economy, but don’t worry, I’ll come out ahead.
