She had worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development or related groups for more than two decades. She made $175,000 a year. 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, rely on food stamps
NYT writes this as an ORANGE MAN BAD but of course it actually reveals these were talentless people being extremely overpaid.
You were making 6 figures for 2 decades and not only didn't save enough but are so talentless you can't get any job?
A bit off topic but the sheer amount of people I know that do not save a single fucking cent blows my mind, everything must be spent as soon as you get it for them and then they complain when they don't have money for food, gas, car issues, etc.
You now understand why income tax is withheld before a paycheck lands in a normie's pocket. More depressingly, the tax refund is probably the only form of """savings""" they have.
I'm not saying it's right, but this article really makes you understand why purges follow coups. These people really, truly believe they are entitled to six figures of your money and it's a tragedy that they've lost access to your wallet. You can't rehabilitate a 60 year old who has lived that way for 25 years.
Entitled is the correct word. If they are properly skilled in their field then they could easily hop to a job with a similar pay grade. But these kinds of jobs apparently were fake to begin with.
Even a fake job can have real skillsets that are useful. If you regularly do public speaking as part of your fake job... That's a marketable skill. If you navigate endless government forms to get your sweet USAID stipends, there's a huge market for people able to parse and read government documents and translate it to laypeople, join a business that helps start-up businesses and help them file their articles of incorporation or something.
But the fact these people were paid so much, and yet reduced to so little, tells me they were truly incompetent. 20 years at 6 figures, I'm not applying for a new job, I'm not even attempting to stay at my current one: I'm retiring!
Yeah but muh brand new car every three years, latest iPhone, gotta get a bigger house because nobody would belive we earn what we do living HERE, etc
Lifestyle creep is why many people can't retire even at 65 no matter how much they hate their jobs. It's sad as shit. I live far below my means at this point in my career with minimal debt and loads going to retirement/investments. Fuck working until I die
Most people who work for the government have no real skills. In the private sector you'll see semblance of this in big O&G towns where admin workers make like $150k/yr entering in people's hours worked for the day. Government is the same thing. When the government stops stealing productive people's money to give to unproductive people, the employees don't get paid and have no real skills outside of some $45k/yr job.
Every time something is cut and the numbers for saved funds manifest, someone hears the cha-ching of a drawer opening with funds that just became available for an even bigger waste.
NYT writes this as an ORANGE MAN BAD but of course it actually reveals these were talentless people being extremely overpaid.
You were making 6 figures for 2 decades and not only didn't save enough but are so talentless you can't get any job?
A bit off topic but the sheer amount of people I know that do not save a single fucking cent blows my mind, everything must be spent as soon as you get it for them and then they complain when they don't have money for food, gas, car issues, etc.
You now understand why income tax is withheld before a paycheck lands in a normie's pocket. More depressingly, the tax refund is probably the only form of """savings""" they have.
Sorry bub, you're going to have to compete with the H1B Indians that you imported into the country now
Choose one.
They could be laundering it as a go between.
I'm not saying it's right, but this article really makes you understand why purges follow coups. These people really, truly believe they are entitled to six figures of your money and it's a tragedy that they've lost access to your wallet. You can't rehabilitate a 60 year old who has lived that way for 25 years.
Entitled is the correct word. If they are properly skilled in their field then they could easily hop to a job with a similar pay grade. But these kinds of jobs apparently were fake to begin with.
Even a fake job can have real skillsets that are useful. If you regularly do public speaking as part of your fake job... That's a marketable skill. If you navigate endless government forms to get your sweet USAID stipends, there's a huge market for people able to parse and read government documents and translate it to laypeople, join a business that helps start-up businesses and help them file their articles of incorporation or something.
But the fact these people were paid so much, and yet reduced to so little, tells me they were truly incompetent. 20 years at 6 figures, I'm not applying for a new job, I'm not even attempting to stay at my current one: I'm retiring!
Yeah but muh brand new car every three years, latest iPhone, gotta get a bigger house because nobody would belive we earn what we do living HERE, etc
Lifestyle creep is why many people can't retire even at 65 no matter how much they hate their jobs. It's sad as shit. I live far below my means at this point in my career with minimal debt and loads going to retirement/investments. Fuck working until I die
Most people who work for the government have no real skills. In the private sector you'll see semblance of this in big O&G towns where admin workers make like $150k/yr entering in people's hours worked for the day. Government is the same thing. When the government stops stealing productive people's money to give to unproductive people, the employees don't get paid and have no real skills outside of some $45k/yr job.
Its funny how much fuming I hear about it up here in Canada, you guys spooked our public service like a skittish colt.
She’ll be back in the job after 2028
With 4 years back pay.
Same as our WHO funding and basically everything Trump attempted
I hope they don't get bested by cheaper immigration labour.
I forgot DOGE existed, and people actually believed it would meaningfully contribute toward balancing the budget or something.
The budget cuts were necessary to fund munitions for Israel
Every time something is cut and the numbers for saved funds manifest, someone hears the cha-ching of a drawer opening with funds that just became available for an even bigger waste.
should be made to repay all the money stolen from us
If I didn't know better, I would say the reporter was setting this guy up