What an interesting take…I assume you will be down voted into oblivion, but it is thought provoking all the same. When I was younger I thought police helped people and I probably would have considered being a police officer. Now, I can’t imagine who would want to and I immediately question anyone who would. I have to imagine this is causing the people who truly want to help people to avoid the profession.

100% factually accurate and yet still devastating to hear.

25 years…I can almost hear the modem whining like it was yesterday.

This is really well written and I agree with a lot of your points…but when I read “as far back as the early 2000s” I felt about 100 years old.

Glad to hear you won’t have to upgrade. Hopefully you can stay under the radar, but I definitely get this would be a rough time to be working for the fed. I sincerely wish you luck (and patience)

Based on the people I interact with daily basically no one realizes this is happening. Outside of the IT department no one realizes or cares. I asked how we were doing to deal with tariffs on electronics we regularly used a while back and was quietly told that was a political statement and shouldn’t be brought up.

Now we have no plan and I’m too bummed to be smug about it.

Again, this is just my anecdotal view.