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Jan. 28th, 2025 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
choco_froshAccidentally tried to use spot remover as shaving cream this morning. Argh.
(It's not nearly as bad as it sounds: this kind of spot remover is basically glorified soap, and so's shaving cream. So no side effects as YET, aside from smelling like spot remover.)
The real problem of the week is that last Friday Trump put a freeze on all USAID programs. This is a horrible idea* in itself but it was also (natch) followed by a flood of Stop Work orders. Which... means that most of my company's international work (and funding) is now on hold, while everyone in my department runs around like chickens with their heads cut off to implement and document all this.
Then yesterday, that orange fucker announced a similar freeze on all government grants. The domestic Stop Work orders haven't started flying yet, but that may be only a matter of time.
And where that leaves my employer would be... Fucked. Because the overwhelming majority of our funding is sucked (directly or indirectly) from the leathern teat of Uncle Sam.
And so I--and possibly, a good part of the company--may end up getting laid off.
* "Dumb Idea or Brilliant and Dastardly Plot to destroy the US as a World Power?": yet another quiz show that we wish we weren't on.
ETA: Have an article on the funding freeze.
ETA2: Yup, just got some sort of blanket stop-work order from NSF. Tomorrow's going to be fun.
(It's not nearly as bad as it sounds: this kind of spot remover is basically glorified soap, and so's shaving cream. So no side effects as YET, aside from smelling like spot remover.)
The real problem of the week is that last Friday Trump put a freeze on all USAID programs. This is a horrible idea* in itself but it was also (natch) followed by a flood of Stop Work orders. Which... means that most of my company's international work (and funding) is now on hold, while everyone in my department runs around like chickens with their heads cut off to implement and document all this.
Then yesterday, that orange fucker announced a similar freeze on all government grants. The domestic Stop Work orders haven't started flying yet, but that may be only a matter of time.
And where that leaves my employer would be... Fucked. Because the overwhelming majority of our funding is sucked (directly or indirectly) from the leathern teat of Uncle Sam.
And so I--and possibly, a good part of the company--may end up getting laid off.
* "Dumb Idea or Brilliant and Dastardly Plot to destroy the US as a World Power?": yet another quiz show that we wish we weren't on.
ETA: Have an article on the funding freeze.
ETA2: Yup, just got some sort of blanket stop-work order from NSF. Tomorrow's going to be fun.
