‘Cruel and thoughtless’: Trump fires hundreds at US climate agency Noaa | Employees informed by email that their jobs would be cut off at end of day in move a worker called ‘wrong all around’

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

‘Cruel and thoughtless’: Trump fires hundreds at US climate agency Noaa | Employees informed by email that their jobs would be cut off at end of day in move a worker called ‘wrong all around’

Zoot · 4 months ago

What’s stopping people from just ignoring trump and continuing to work?

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

Not getting paid. Not having physical access to buildings. Not having working accounts on government computers.

This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥 · 4 months ago

Homelessness, starvation, threat of police brutality…

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

Most people don’t like to work for free.

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

I’d imagine the lack of income, probably

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

AccuWeather has been working on this since 2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Duties_Act_of_2005

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

Another anonymous staffer called the laid-off workers “dedicated, hard-working civil servants who came to Noaa to help protect lives and keep our blue planet healthy”.

I’m afraid those goals are at odds with your leadership.

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

All fossil fuel companies, plastic manufacturers and all around polluters just got unleashed and are ready to go all out. Protecting the planet is not the goal, no.