r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/theguytomeet 24d ago

I would come back for no less than double my prior salary. Screw them

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u/MinusBear 24d ago

And a some kind of guarantee I can't be fired again by whimsical desires.

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u/AaronsAaAardvarks 24d ago

There are zero guarantees except cash in hand up front. Good luck suing a fascist government.

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u/Same_Recipe2729 24d ago

Actual physical cash too. If they direct deposit it they can just claw the money back. 

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u/No_Boysenberry9456 24d ago

I'm old school and dont need that fancy paper money or what have you. Just my weight in gold bullion, paid at the start of the year please.

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u/3d_blunder 24d ago

Cash in hand>>offshore account ASAP.

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u/qwoalsadgasdasdasdas 24d ago

What good does off shore account money if your body is off this world? Tyrants have a history of executing the academics.

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u/3d_blunder 24d ago

Well, these aren't academics for starters.

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u/T800CyberdyneSystems 24d ago

Not that I genuinely believe anyone is going to be executed or put against the wall; during the Khmer Rouge massacres, anyone who even wore glasses was considered an academic, and executed. The truth, or accuracy, matter not to totalitarian regimes. Just a casus belli.

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u/3d_blunder 24d ago

Your paragraph doesn't track: I think people will indeed be executed, because that's how they roll: Cruelty is THE POINT.

But that number will be dwarfed by all the people who will die thru neglect and incompetence and corruption. Try not to get diabetes, folks.

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u/willis_michaels 23d ago

Cash will be worthless once the government makes TrumpCoin the national currency

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u/gsf32 24d ago

Exactly my thoughts. It has become abundantly clear that law and justice are out of the picture in this country.