This is a hell of a thing
‘Nobody to pump the toilets?’ Trump purge could cripple parks.
With the Trump administration culling potentially thousands of park rangers from the federal ranks, some within the National Park Service are bracing for a tough summer as crowds descend on understaffed park facilities.
The effects of the new order in Washington are already being felt across the nation’s parks with maintenance staffs cut to single digits, a major park reservation system to help slow congestion taken offline and warnings from congressional Democrats that thousands of seasonal workers need to be hired in short order. Those temporary staffers do everything from collect entry fees — a significant portion of park income — to guide tours and pump toilets.
Isn’t it great how the Credentialed Media thinks that everyone is just there to serve them? Like cleaning toilets?
It was unclear Tuesday how many National Park Service employees took the “buyout” offer, but the administration has reportedly rescinded job offers for roughly 2,000 seasonal hires and perhaps fired almost as many recently hired staffers who were in their probation periods. An email viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News indicated there were around 1,900 probationary employees within NPS, although the exact number of people who were terminated is unclear.
Sooooooo……they don’t actually know? That’s not journalism. It’s more like something from the Weekly World News. They’re making bat guano up. Anyhow, the “article” yammers with some anonymous employees fearmongering about hiring freezes and layoffs/terminations, but, weirdly, I do not remember Politico or the other outlets concerned when Obama shut all the parks down, do you?
NPS said in a statement that it was implementing the president’s executive order to freeze hiring but noted its allowances for exceptions, which included seasonal workers.
“The order does allow for exemptions for the hiring of certain positions,” NPS said in a statement. “The NPS is assessing our most critical staffing needs for park operations for the coming season and is working to hire key positions. The NPS is committed to protecting public lands, infrastructure, and communities while ensuring public access.”
So, they can still hire the seasonal workers. And this shall all pass once the deadwood is eliminated.
Another fired NPS employee said in a post on LinkedIn on Sunday that they were just 10 days short of the end of their probationary period. The Trump administration’s purge of employees will make it impossible for the NPS to fulfill its mission to protect its lands, they said.
“Yes, there will be long lines at the parks’ fee booths, closed visitor centers, overflowing toilets, and poop on the trails, but there will also be severely impaired natural and cultural resources,” they wrote.
Good grief, what is it with these people and toilets and poop? There was another mention further up in the article. Also, where was the concern when federal employees were terminated for refusing to take the worthless COVID vaccine?
Around here during Covid, portajohns sprang up so the porcelain facilities could be locked to prevent the spread. Funny, some are still there.
A great many park employees are contractors, seasonal, temps, and volunteers, all of which are exempt from Trump/DOGE firing. Politico, who was recently outed as a recipient of USAID taxpayer funds, is continuing to print stories about how Orange man is bad, because it is what the Biden/Harris/Obama administrations were paying them to do. Democrats use taxpayer funds to prop up their democrat friends.
The NPS already is a massive fraud. Many of the “parks” are only open on certain days and by months in advance reservation only. And every time one of the roads in a park are wiped out by nature it becomes “too expensive” to re-engineer it so major parts of the park are now only open to those that can take a week to hike in and who tolerate tent camping.