A stream of lately terminated Department of Education employees returned to their workplace in Washington, DC, in the present day with a 30-minute allotment of time to clear their desks and go away, because the Trump administration forges forward with their plan to dismantle the agency.
Many staff left with tears streaming down their face, wheeling suitcases or carrying containers of the non-public gadgets that remained of their workplace. Many carried authorities property, laptops and enormous laptop screens, that they used whereas working remotely.
A small group of about 40 folks, at one of many three Division of Training places of work in DC, lined up outdoors to applaud the terminated staff as they departed to point out assist, holding indicators that learn, “Thanks in your service,” and “Help Feds, Not Musk.” Many within the group were recently terminated USAID workers who, themselves, have been in an identical state of affairs simply final month. “You’re higher than this,” an individual within the crowd shouted in assist.
Practically 50% of the Department of Education’s employees have been terminated this month, amounting to about 1,300 folks, along with the tons of who took voluntary “buyouts.”
Terminated Division of Training staff, in Washington, DC, and at regional places of work throughout the nation, have been despatched an e mail final week to enroll in a 30-min block of time this week and instructed to deliver their very own containers and tape to pack up their gadgets.
As one employee arrived, with empty luggage, prepared to enter her workplace for the final time she mentioned somberly, “Probably the most ironic second of the morning? My Uber was a Tesla.”
