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 According to CNN and Axios , it looks very likely.

So much for efficiency : Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire. “Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.” Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months. He said...

 Google threatens to fire more employees if they don't show up in person at least three days a week. Less business from Amazon causes UPS to fire 20,000 employees .  Everything's bigger in Texas, including the job loss .  Transportation companies are facing a double-whammy of layoffs and bankruptcies .  Hope people in California weren't too attached to their wine .  School bus company in Pennsylvania to cut 70 employees. 

 Hedges also acknowledges his supporters in his message/warning about the rich and wealthy controlling media : I cannot answer you all individually, but each message, each new subscription, means I can go on. I write and broadcast for you. I see myself in you. I refuse to dumb down anything to reach a wider audience. I do not try to be entertaining. I assume, like me, you love books and the world of ideas, the nuances and complexities that make up the human condition. I assume you care about the truth. I assume you seek to create a world that is just, a world where our primary concern is for the vulnerable and the oppressed, a world where exploitation, including of the planet and animals, is a sin. I assume you refuse to march to the cant of the crowd. I assume you are willing to sacrifice for what is right, even at the cost of your comfort and career. Bless you all.  

 From Chris Hedges' Substack :  I was just informed by Max Alvarez, the Editor-in-Chief at The Real News, that they will no longer run my show. The reason for the cancellation, he said, is that my critiques of Biden, especially for the genocide in Gaza, jeopardizes his nonprofit status. My last show with Dennis Kucinich, who is running as an independent for Congress in Ohio, was removed from the site. I will resurrect the show on an independent platform, although it may take me a few weeks to get this set up. Very disappointing move by TRNN. Thankfully, place  Breakthrough News is around and (currently) has no trouble talking about the topics Hedges discusses; maybe his show can also find a home there.

  So much for "do no evil":  Google has fired more than two dozen employees who protested this week against the company’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The workers were dismissed after an investigation found that they had staged protests inside Google’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. In Sunnyvale, they entered the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, according to a post on X by the group that organized the demonstration, No Tech For Apartheid. Protesters held banners that read “No More Genocide For Profit” and “We Stand with Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Googlers.” A Google spokesperson told CNN Thursday that the protests “were part of a long-standing campaign by a group of organizations and people who largely don’t work” at the company. “A small number of employee protesters entered and disrupted a few of our locations. Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation...

 Both Tucker Carlson (of FoxNews) and Don Lemon (of CNN) have been let go.  I'm sure it's for different, more cultural and/or political reasons and not because neither were particularly good journalists.  They both have money (Carlson is married to an heiress) so they'll be fine. The real winners is the American viewing audience; maybe now some of them will find better-informed outlets.  P.S.: not sure if this means anything, but look how CNN decided to report both stories:

 First Twitter, now Facebook . It's a shame that these billionaires can't cut their own pay so they can retain some of their employees. But hey, when your product is no longer profitable, mass firing has always been the quick fix. 

Quite possibly one of the few people who can blame the President for being unemployed , even if it had nothing to do with Obama's policies.

Dallas Cowboys fire Wade Phillips .

Say it ain't so !

Sure it's a private school, but she missed it by about a month (has been married 16 months, child is 8 months old). I'm really hoping they didn't this for financial or personnel reasons, because it's just sad to think they fired a good teacher because of " boom-chicka-wha-wha ."

Well, duh .

Firing a coach during a season does not guarantee a turn-around. I don't know why organizations continue to do this.

Hmmm... WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A former cashier for The Home Depot who has been wearing a " One nation under God" button on his work apron for more than a year has been fired, he says because of the religious reference. The company claims that expressing such personal beliefs is simply not allowed. "I've worn it for well over a year and I support my country and God," Trevor Keezor said Tuesday. "I was just doing what I think every American should do, just love my country." The American flag button Keezer wore in the Florida store since March 2008 says "One nation under God, indivisible." Earlier this month, he began bringing a Bible to read during his lunch break at the store in the rural town of Okeechobee , about 140 miles north of Miami . That's when he says The Home Depot management told him he would have to remove the button. Keezer refused, and he was fired on O...