El Protoolio wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 10:23 am
I am not angry or bitter though. We have the greatest country and health care system and economy in the world. U-S-A! U-S-A!

U-S-A!

Sorry to hear that Gramsky! Similar things are ongoing here as well. As I work in a rather large company for our standards, the cuts are visible mostly all the fucking time, and big time in the last 2 quarters. And this is a largely profitable company with the most profits on a yearly basis in KRO ARMY!

In that regards, here's a number rather on topic.

El Protoolio wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 10:23 am Any time a venture capitalist group buys into your company start looking because the lay offs are coming. This is the third wave this year because these greedy fucking assholes set short term unrealistic financial goals and then those of us doing the actual work get fucked when they don't make their quarterly investment goals. Fuck our system for tying insurance to employment, fuck the capitalists who rip away people's livelihoods and security in the name of quarterly profits. Fuck my former employer I hope they go bankrupt and all their homes burn to the fucking ground. Mass layoffs, aka reductions in force, due to budget issues are a total failure of leadership. Vulture capitalists are fucking evil.

Obviously very sorry, and I included this portion to reiterate how much I agree with you, and how vehemently I restate the same sentiment in simlar terms over and over.

The experiment is failed. It's not serving the worker anymore, money is serving itself and rent seekers just siphon what they can, humans be damned.

Maddening. Again, so sorry and man I feel you.

This pigheaded administration has deemed my profession to not be professional, along with a bunch of other professions that also happen to be mandated reporters. It's as if the child molesters in power want to protect themselves. Imagine.

I saw weird chatter online about that designation and how it was changing - what does all that mean?

ChudFusk wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 3:50 pm This pigheaded administration has deemed my profession to not be professional, along with a bunch of other professions that also happen to be mandated reporters. It's as if the child molesters in power want to protect themselves. Imagine.

I saw this. I feel like this is going to be reversed immediately by the next administration. Nothing says nurse or teacher shortage like making it impossible to enter the field because the pay sucks. This will exacerbate the problem. I read somewhere that this was a way to remove women voluntarily from the workforce and get them back to making babies barefoot in the kitchen.

I really don't get the logic here. If you want people making babies, you might want to invest in things like affordable housing, wage increases and child care. Instead, we get the opposite, coupled with a brutal immigration policy to remove immigrants, backed with lowering the age of consent and minimum working ages for children. It's not just christian nationalism, it's neo feudalism. The two things that make up Project 2025.

Frankie99 wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 3:53 pm I saw weird chatter online about that designation and how it was changing - what does all that mean?

Right now it just means that there is a destructively low cap on federal loans for these degree programs, which will make it significantly harder (or impossible) for the people who come from the same communities they will be serving to afford to become accredited practitioners of such services. Thus it will just be more privileged people entering these workforces, or nobody at all. I've met some really well-meaning young people in the helping professions, but their limited experiences and higher socioeconomic statuses tend to hinder their abilities to do multiculturally competent work in community mental health.

Eventually it might mean something else, who knows. The worst can always get worse.

El Protoolio wrote: 52 years old and out of work and no insurance just before the holidays. I've been fired by bigger, wealthier, and more important people than these clowns but it still fucking sucks.

Fuck - I am so sorry - this sucks : (

Damn El Pro, sorry to hear that. Do you qualify for Medicaid?

Left my last job at the end of September and didn't think I would find another remote job before the end of the year. It really is a terrible time to be looking but somehow I lucked out and was recently given a job offer.

flyinghouses wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 2:12 pm Left my last job at the end of September and didn't think I would find another remote job before the end of the year. It really is a terrible time to be looking but somehow I lucked out and was recently given a job offer.

Nice! Congratulations!