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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (357374)	12/17/2025 10:49:58 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358044

I wanted to take some time to write about my experience here. My experiences the last ten years are the same, and they actually happened as a federal employee in the Department of War; back then the Department of Defense. You may think a federal institution would be immune to this sort of thing, but the federal government has always been the testing ground for things communists want to push on the public. I joined the Army NG in 2013. I became a full time employee in 2017. It was my first desk job, and they figured out quickly I was very intelligent. They taught me to do federal finance. Within a few years I was the state subject matter expert on over a dozen systems. I went to every class I could and got every cert I could. Every responsibility I could take I did. The Gen X combat vets I worked for said over and over again that the skillsets I had acquired were extremely niche and I would never have problem finding work again. I had people from every eschalon and even out of state calling me constantly for help and approval. I was a fixer. I'd made E5 very quickly but couldn't stay on full time orders so I had to take a fed tech job within the office. The lead budget analyst left so I was the finance guy, but because whatever reason they couldn't hire me as a GS11 and couldn't make the second position GS9, so they hired me as a GS7. 3k a month pay cut doing two budget jobs above my pay grade. I was boarding for E6 but getting passed up over and over again. Figured it was because I didn't have a degree but I had more than enough awards to make up. Army slots are what they are. 2020 came around and they put me on the COVID task force. They brought back mandatory transgender sensitivity training and changed "equality" on diversity training to "equity". We got a female first sergeant and she made it clear her goals were woke politics. They kept promising to hire me as a GS 11 in the office so I could get paid correctly for the job I was already doing on top of the 3 other jobs I was doing. But every time they made some excuse. "Hiring pool wasn't big enough." "Oh we're going to announce it nationwide this time." Every time I was the most qualified candidate. I was beating out Majors and Captains. They kept closing it and reopening. Eventually, after wearing 4 hats and working 16 hour days fairly consistently for some months, they pulled me into the office (not even them, but someone else to do it for them) and said "you keep dropping the ball on some things so we're gonna repost the job when you prove you can handle it." Didn't make sense because I was already doing the job. But I was crushed. Genuinely I trusted them and I thought "what was wrong with me?" But then the Gen X Sergeant major retired. They posted the job and he was hired immediately. I couldn't beat a 10 point veteran preference. Then they told me I had to train him to do the job. After a few months of looking the worst I've ever been in my life and huge raccoon eyes a Colonel I was close with asked me what was wrong. I told him what was going on. He was furious and brought it to the TAG. In a Chief of Staff meeting he chewed out several other colonels for abusing me. They were directed to stop asking me to do all their finance work for them and to figure it out. I left shortly after because despite applying for other finance jobs in the state I couldn't get any. Oddly enough, women and minorities filled all those positions. At the end of my contract the army was hemorrhaging White males from the COVID stuff and the general culture which pretty much had open disdain for them. I had experienced this first hand during my various religious exemption meetings. After 5 years of boarding they half assedly and unofficially offered me a promotion if I would stay in. Felt more insulting than anything.... After a year of job searching I finally picked up a job at a state government agency. I found out this was only the case because they literally could not keep people because the job sucked. Newhires would quit within a month. Over the next year, I applied for over 500 jobs. I had 2 interviews. One ghosted me after the second interview and the second was a part time gig doing finances for a hotel and was in another state. My wife had a steady job thankfully, and we moved across country to be with her family so they can help with children. But at this point I've applied to over 700 jobs. Nothing. Zilch. It's been 2 years since I worked. Every job application says "we are committed to diversity and equity" and that translates to "White men need not apply." Federal jobs, state jobs, indeed, LinkedIn, company websites, word of mouth. I can't even get a job flipping burgers; I've tried. That or the company wants a 4 year degree with 10 years of experience for entry level, which just means they're hiring someone on an visa when they can't find any candidates that meet the criteria. x.com Tom