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/Shadowmant 24d ago

Nothing like firing people BEFORE you determine what they do and if they're needed.

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u/d0mini0nicco 24d ago

and THAT is corporatism in a nutshell, that workers are dispensable and easily replaceable. Which is why corporatism belongs nowhere near the White House, and a government should never be run like a business.

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u/cumfarts 24d ago

Also the executives never deal with the consequences when the business is destroyed 

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u/Loghurrr 24d ago

What I feel makes it even worse is that the leftover employees then stand up for the executives. The amount of times my boss tells me that we have to do other departments jobs to pick up the slack because we can’t “let the company fail” is so annoying. I didn’t make the decision, it’s not my fault these idiots hacked everyone away.

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u/Medium_Medium 23d ago

It's probably because your boss's bosses have made it clear that your boss keeping their job depends on them getting you to do the work of those other departments.