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re: I knew an article like this was coming: NYT report on fired USAID workers not finding work
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:06 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:06 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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That was Jan. 28, 2025. Today Amy Uccello and her husband, who also lost his job when U.S.A.I.D. funding for his nonprofit dried up,
Uhhhhh
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:07 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Maybe they should learn how to code
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:07 pm to hogcard1964
The solution is simple. Why don’t thy just learn to code??
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:09 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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That was Jan. 28, 2025.
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She and her husband have applied for more than 100 jobs with no luck
100 job applications in 15 months is nothing, and it’s not even clear if that’s each of them or combined
why does the news media profile losers and make their lazy/incompetent/poor decision making loser behavior news?
This post was edited on 4/22/26 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:11 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
They can learn to code!
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:14 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That's a rough looking 49 years, for somebody that has spent their life on the dole.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:14 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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fired USAID workers not finding work
its like a double win
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:17 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
As people said, imagine making $175k with zero skills.
The crime is that they could have hired zero skill people at $15 an hour.
The crime is that they could have hired zero skill people at $15 an hour.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:19 pm to Eighteen
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why does the news media profile losers and make their lazy/incompetent/poor decision making loser behavior news?
Because they think it will score points for their cause.
Reminds me of a few years ago when a station did a story on March Madness and how much help the players got while talking about a girl who wasn’t getting that same help.
Said girl was a graduate of Episcopal in Baton Rouge. Someone with the means and the education to know how to use the resources on campus such as the writing room or the math room to go over anything she was having trouble with.
I never got an actual story of what happened with her but the chances are that she partied her arse off, bombed her classes, and complained she didn’t get a free ride.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:19 pm to Hangit
Found this in another article about the famous Uccellos:
These people apparently went from making $300k+ to being destitute in 2 weeks.
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Two weeks later, my husband was furloughed from his job. The nonprofit organization that he worked for implementing USAID activities was no longer getting paid. The USAID programs that he was working on, including safeguarding the Rohingya diaspora from China's coercion, protecting Burmese human rights defenders from the junta, peacebuilding in Ethiopia, strengthening civil society organizations in Sudan so that they can help victims of conflict, and building local health systems in Ukraine were all either frozen or abruptly terminated. These programs not only helped the most vulnerable suffering in conflict zones, they also advanced US national security by mitigating the worst spillover of instability abroad.
These people apparently went from making $300k+ to being destitute in 2 weeks.
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In a matter of two weeks, we went from career professionals, thrilled to move into the exciting chapter of new parenthood, to applying for WIC, SNAP, ACA, and Medicaid benefits and faced with the ever present anxiety that we might be unable to guarantee for our newborn daughter a roof over her head, formula in her belly, and the ability to visit a doctor when needed.
This post was edited on 4/22/26 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:21 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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These people apparently went from making $300k+ to being destitute in 2 weeks.
This is what happens when you live well beyond your means. The loss of a single paycheck fricks you hard.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Cry me a river.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:40 pm to teke184
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How much was their job bringing to the US government if they have no marketable skills post-employment?
USAID was a net negative to the USA. That isnt debatable
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:58 pm to ColoradoAg
quote:AFSC 3F1X1 or 3E2X1? Even those retards could do one of these jobs.
They don’t have the technical expertise for the Air Force
Posted on 4/22/26 at 4:01 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
If you’re making $175k and have been working there for two decades(not saying she’s made that much the whole time) and your husband works there, too….why isn’t your house paid off, at minimum? I make less than that and I don’t have a mortgage or car note.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 4:02 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Welcome to the REAL world that’s too bad
Posted on 4/22/26 at 4:07 pm to ColoradoAg
quote:Coast Guard, National Guard, public librarian ?
They don’t have the technical expertise for the Air Force
Posted on 4/22/26 at 4:08 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:and I'm guessing her husband made about the same and yet they can't survive a year on their savings
She made $175,000 a year.
Gfy or learn to code. I'm sure they have skills that will put Claude and chatgpt to shame.
Will Ferrell What A an Idiot gif
Posted on 4/22/26 at 4:38 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:Sorry to be blunt, I’m sympathetic for their difficulty, but they sound like gravy train moochers.
who also lost his job when U.S.A.I.D. funding for his nonprofit dried up
Posted on 4/22/26 at 4:45 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
With all the negativity going on in the world, thanks for posting this feel good story.
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