1 If federal employees wanted to keep collecting rents, then they should have kept rents minimal, and not, for example, screwed over maybe tens of millions by raping the economy, importing tens of millions of slave laborers subsidized by welfare, and raping the economy.  Now, probably a lot of that policy was at or above the GS 12 level, and also the ability to understand the policy interactions is maybe a bit rare.  (It should not be rare, I feel.)

These are unionized civil service positions. 

The weaponized complaints tend to just leave me a bit unmoved.  Almost twenty years ago, I 'should' have gotten a position, and blah blah blah. 

I did not. 

If I had, maybe I would be feeling a bit scared and helpless now.  Actually, I do feel scared and helpless, a bit.  DOGE is something I feel better for seeing the hype of, but I would like to see results finalized, and I'm not exactly feeling okay about my own employment yet. 

The real economy is chaos, and I really do have a lot of deep craving for stability.  I also don't want to have to go out and talk with people that I do not know already from long acquaintance, and do any marketing for myself.  Well, guess what.  I have to do a lot more of that than I am comfortable with.  I need to deal with a whole lot more discomfort than I really want to. 

Spite does not bring me any actual lasting satisfaction. 

When I hear "I just got my MA in Sociology, and leveraged connections to get my dream job writing more regulations for disability employment, and I am fired now and have no idea what to do." I am extremely unmoved.  I understand that such a person has been abused and lied to her whole life, but firing is more compassionate than being set afire.  Restarting the career search and the skilling up from scratch is terrible, but there are a lot of people who would have done less evil had they went ahead and made that choice.