Never tie your identity to something that can be taken away. Re: job title, salary, perceived status. Your self perceived identity should have a much more stable foundation.

Sorry that happened to you (regardless of head or hand).

Amazing, thank you for all the work you’re doing. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

I enjoyed reading this, hopefully you share more stories on Lemmy in the future.

$250-$300k is the new $100k from the 90’s imo. It’s rough out here.

It has disc brakes lol! So badass!

If only imperialism was relegated to the past. Imagine all this energy going towards building up neighbors and allies… Either way though, Slava Ukraini!!

Same fucking thing Putin does. Be confident AND kind – it’s beyond these pricks…

Such a depressing world.

Run a Pop Socket on your phone and buy a couple of these:

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It makes an S22U so much more ergonomic for smaller hands. YMMV.

Samesies

Never say never.

Toats not I! Genuine af.

Traitors, both he and his wife.

No thanks.

Hungry trolls, best ignored ime.

Fucking lol. I like this.

Light bulb stealing whores

100%. Contractors are largely left out of any coverage when these issues arise. The functional dynamic between military, civilian, and contractors is beyond intertwined (in general), but the contractor workforce is left out of discussions and follow-on support constantly. As bizarre as it may sound, I think Federal Contractors should unionize. Most contractors are regular working people (not the millionaire contract company executives). These employees are not the people negotiating with the government, they go through traditional interviews with the company awarded a contract – and in general, wages and contract value are not transparent whatsoever.

Many contractors can also end up working along side mil/civ for years and sometimes their entire career in the same role, but have their pay and other benefits reset whenever the contract changes companies (5 years is a common contract duration), this has burned soo many people, especially those not adept at advocating/negotiating… but even then, sometimes every aspect of compensation and benefits simply plummets and the incumbents have to take it if they want to continue supporting that mission. Civilians on the other hand enjoy amazing stability. Long rant and everyone’s experience will vary, but there is a lot of truth above in general terms.

Contracting isn’t always that cut and dry. Different industries and sectors of employment can use it for indefinite employment, and as such, many people can end up relying and hoping for longest possible work. I.e., USA Federal Contracting. Creating a union to protect workers and fight for financial fairness isn’t something that Contractors should be excluded from – it is still work after all. And in the case above-mentioned the actual workers do not negotiate with the contract issuer, but the middleman, a contract company – human capital.