Summary
Recently terminated federal workers face not only unemployment challenges but also hurtful reactions from family members who support the government cuts.
Luke Tobin, fired from the Forest Service, and Kristin Jenn, whose Park Service job was frozen, describe relatives celebrating their job losses as necessary to “make the government great again.”
Former Park Service employee Riley Rackliffe encountered social media comments calling him a “glorified pool boy” despite his Ph.D.
Some workers report family members unfriending them on social media or dismissing their positions as “waste.”
People unfamiliar with narcissistic abusive families really do not know, cannot conceptualize, how bad the trauma is for those who have lived inside them.
Agreed. My parents died last year. All I felt was anger. I’ve had to hand two people to the rear view mirror because they can’t accept they are ignorant of the situation.
The Sunset Tree captures those feelings in a way no one else really has. It’s a concept album about being in the hotel room, the night before your abusive stepdads funeral.