Which doesn't excuse things AT ALL, but does sound like the agencies weren't given any leeway.

Someone at NASA posted it too - same text. Ghastly.

Ah, Atropa, that makes sense. I mean the kind of sense that is horrible, but that's where we are now.

Yeah it was clearly a template they had to use. It's still gross and unprofessional and insulting to the staff.

I was supposed to take civil rights training within the next few months; I wonder if it will be cancelled?

lisah, I didn’t realize you were federal now.

I’m back working as a federal contractor which I did for a long time before going to the private sector. I swore I’d never go back but needs must.

Yes, my housemate here in the East Bay works for the federal Department of Health and Human Services in SF, and he got a notice exactly as JenP described.

So, can confirm that it looks like a horrible template.

I work for a state university, but I'm in research administration so we're directly downstream of this shitshow given how much of our money comes from federal grants. We got notices today to stop doing anything DEI-related on those grants, and I wonder how soon it will be threats to cut all our federal funding if we continue woke activities with our state and private funding.

I just read that all funding for NIH projects has been suspended -- which affects up to 300K jobs at universities and research institutes.

I'm still sick, but at least my sinuses are no longer stopped up with concrete, and I can keep my eyes open for longer than ten minutes without them watering.

I am going to run out of Kleenex, though, so I may allow myself to resort to Instacart, which feels like such a wasteful luxury, except maybe not when you're sick.

I don't want to look at the news because I don't want to know how screwed we are.

I just want happy thoughts like Hec and Matilda in Japan .

And stuff like that.