The process sure does make a lot of noise: "Whiny DOJ Lifers Start Support Group".
Aside from hysteria-fueled media hits, Justice Connection also offers a myriad of services to help ex-DOJ employees try to recover from losing their jobs and somehow survive the remaining Trump years. The group has curated a list of mental health providers who have agreed to offer their services for lower fees; some providers will let ex-DOJ employees cut to the front of the line to receive immediate help sessions.
In addition to its select group of counselors, Justice Connection recommends other nonprofits who can assist ex-DOJers deal with their feelings. One suggestion is the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing located in Washington, D.C. The facility appears to primarily focus on people, particularly children, who have suffered a traumatic loss such as the murder of a parent—not a coddled government worker bitching about the new boss.
Links to the suicide prevention hotline and crisis hotline also appear on the group’s website.
Oh. Mai. GAWD!!!
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine the disruption and angst that would come with losing your job!
Well, wait... let me recall the two times I lost my job and had to find another one... yeah, okay, I can imagine it.
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DeletePut this with Ace's brilliant post about Sally Quinn, the DC socialite writer. She just doesn't feel 'safe and protected' in DC any more, now the Trumpist barbarians have invaded. Cocktail parties have become 'desultory'!
ReplyDeleteSally Quinn is quite mad, or maybe just extremely silly. She used to have (and may still have) an interest in the occult, and claimed to have put hexes on people.
DeleteActually, she did put a hex on Ben Bradlee's marriage, I guess, since he divorced his wife and married her (Quinn).
DeleteTwo thumbs up to the memer. That's genius.
ReplyDeletePaco, if you get a Kickstarter rolling to buy an Esky for the snowflakes, let me know.
I just can't imagine how such...sensitive types....ever became prosecutors.
DeleteI was sacked from the mining co. Australian National Industries in the 1980s. Considering I'd lied about my CV and struggled with a lot I found unfamiliar, they were very nice about it. It was a shock but I went on a long walk and felt better. Then I got a great job at the genetic lab (lied about my CV again! Oh dear!), 'one door closes another door opens' as they say.
ReplyDeleteA bit embarrassing now to think how I BS'ed my way around, but I made good, picking up skills I'd lied about, on the job when no one was around - 'Let's see how to work this thing'.
Whoa, hold on a minute, there, Bruce. When the Paco Enterprises Institute of Liberal Arts and Small Engine Repair hired you to be in charge of the Sociology Dept., we relied heavily on your CV. Do you mean to tell me, at this late date, that...checks CV...you are not a Nobel prize winner, that you were not the head of Oxford University's Department of Modern History, and that you did not, in fact, discover the Seven Cities of Cibola? All I can say is...well played, old top! I am reassured that you are definitely Paco Enterprises material.
DeleteAll those sociology students who learned too late they couldn’t make a decent living “doing” sociology have now discovered counseling. At least it keeps them from screwing up coffee orders at Starbucks.
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