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> Employers would have to be pretty spiteful to look at it the way you purposed I disagree. If a persons resume contains description of blatantly harmful work
by afavour 11mo ago
> Employers would have to be pretty spiteful to look at it the way you purposed
I disagree. If a persons resume contains description of blatantly harmful work how else can I interpret it but negatively? At best you’d have to chalk it up to “just following orders” but I don’t want blind obedience in a prospective employee either.
The destruction caused by DOGE is evident to anyone with eyes, as is the agency’s complete lack of achievement. I would absolutely be asking questions about why someone remained there.
- quantified 11mo agoThese employees will be hired by the companies they helped integrate. Not a single one will look on them poorly. They will have domain knowledge, turf knowledge, and they won't argue about working with MAGA for money.
- afavour 11mo agoEmbracing MAGA on your resume can pay dividends when they’re in power. Perhaps less so once the tide (inevitably) turns. There’s a reason a lot of gov tech folks deliberately paint themselves as non partisan.
- phantasmish 11mo agoThey’ll be fine in the “defense” industry.
- rurp 11mo agoEven that might be changing. I follow some defense industry folks and I've never seen a time when they were less pro-republican. The gross incompetence and maliciousness by this administration is deeply concerning to most people in the industry. The idiocy we're seeing regarding Venezuela, Russia/Ukraine, alienating every single ally, fumbling on China, and more are putting the US in a much much weaker position going forward. Everyone who's paying attention and not happily in on some graft knows to be worried.
- phantasmish 11mo agoAh, I have no recent insight into that world. I’ll defer to you on this, maybe the “vibe”, as it were, has shifted even there.
- SirMaster 11mo agoYou seem to be assuming that someone who remained working for DOGE would even want to work for a company who would pass them over for having worked for DOGE.
- afavour 11mo agoThat would presume they are able to see into the hearts of hiring managers everywhere
- commandlinefan 11mo ago"Why is government so inefficient?" "I would never hire anybody who worked for the government during an administration I didn't vote for!"
- afavour 11mo agoCome on, we can aim for a higher level of discourse than that.