Ah, so you have the absolute 'joy' of supplying 5 weekly bullets too, eh? Simply marvelous, isn't it? It's so much fun to find interesting ways to say "I'm an instructor; I teach" five different times while just changing the wording; "Conducted x number of technical knowledge exams", "Taught x number of hours of technical instructional material", etc. All the while being judged from afar by who knows who (hopefully not just some little teenage shitlord with no idea how the world works let alone how to evaluate someone else's job, but I won't hold my breath on that one). Thankfully, they can't just post up even remotely close to my building due to requiring enough security clearances to choke a horse.

Thankfully, I'm luckier than many in the fact that my job makes me "essential to the military readiness of the nation"; I'm a DoD GS civvy instructor specifically for a Navy 'A' school (basic training for people that have passed boot camp and now need to know how to do their jobs that they joined the Navy to do) and what little actual military staff we have here in the schoolhouses are too damn busy running around taking care of a dozen random collateral duties instead of their primary duty that they were actually assigned here to do in the first place; teach. And as for the civilian instructors, we're constantly running this place with just enough bodies to cover all of the classes we have on board at any given time with only enough leeway in case one of us calls out sick or something. Any more than that and we have to get extremely creative in how we actually teach all of the classes without just sending the trainees home for the day. With the threat of the shutdown we just faced a couple of weeks ago, even our military leadership in our schoolhouse threatened the upper chain of command that if any of us were deemed 'non-essential' and therefore furloughed, he would officially cancel all presently on-board training courses immediately because there would be no one to teach said classes.

Just remember, you aren't alone in this fight; there's a lot more of us than there are of them, and we've got each others' backs. And hopefully it won't be long before people get too sick and tired of the carrot-colored imbecile and "President Musk" to throw them all out. It'll be fekkin painful in the meantime, but the fact that judges and congress are constantly throwing out the BS 'laws' and EOs and fighting our would-be dictators gives me that little speck of hope that people still have some sort of common sense. There is, in fact, a light at the end of the tunnel. And with enough willpower, we'll get there.

It's definitely been a mess, been to plenty of jobs and this was the first I've seen those stoic (well civilian wise) breakdown.

Trying not to let it effect me (a tad hard when my folks are championing the current party and such) but do hold on to some sort of hope.