Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.

Summary

Recently terminated federal workers face not only unemployment challenges but also hurtful reactions from family members who support the government cuts.

Luke Tobin, fired from the Forest Service, and Kristin Jenn, whose Park Service job was frozen, describe relatives celebrating their job losses as necessary to “make the government great again.”

Former Park Service employee Riley Rackliffe encountered social media comments calling him a “glorified pool boy” despite his Ph.D.

Some workers report family members unfriending them on social media or dismissing their positions as “waste.”

  • sp3ctr4lEnglish
    19•2 days ago

    MAGA people are not capable of empathy.

    They are a delusional death cult.

    Maybe its possible to convince one of the few remaining Trump critical Republicans, but MAGA people are gone.

    I no longer talk to my family because of this.

    They only understand pain that personally affects them, and even then, they’re quite likely to delusionally invent a new element to their conspiracy theory cluster fuck that consitutes their worldview/religion.

    Maybe they’ll wake up when they, personally, are now homeless and the entire economy around them has collapsed… but maybe not.