Fired health workers were told to contact an employee. She's dead.

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/01/health-workers-discrimination-complaints-employee-dead/

Fired health workers were told to contact an employee. She’s dead.
Some federal health employees who were laid off Tuesday were told to contact Anita Pinder, who died last year, with discrimination complaints.
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 p.m. EDT
By Lauren Weber

Some government health employees who were laid off Tuesday were told to contact Anita Pinder with discrimination complaints. But Pinder, who was the director at the Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, died last year.

The inclusion of Pinder’s name in reduction-in-force notices reflects the chaos of the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to shed federal workers and was a gut punch to employees who knew her, said Karen Shields, who worked with Pinder.

“They couldn’t have run it past the people at CMS that were at the funeral and knew she died,” Shields said. “This is a lack of communication. There is just a better way to do this.”

In one notice reviewed by The Washington Post, laid-off CMS employees were told: “If you believe this personnel action is based in whole or in part on discrimination based on your race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability, or in retaliation for prior protected activity you may file an EEO complaint with your designated HHS EEO representative.”

The notice then listed Pinder, her email and a phone number, and asked employees to contact her no later than 45 calendar days from the effective date of their separation from government service.

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So much efficiency from the Nazi parasite

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I'm thinking this is a deliberate 'go pound sand' strategy

[Deuxcents]

2. Who is running this shitshow?

[Norrrm]

3. Mistake? Doubtful. --- Chaos? Definitely. --- Cruelty? Oh, yeah! --- Deliberate? High percentage.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. As much as they are incompetent the damage and the pain are intended. They view any federal employee as a parasite.

[lastlib]

5. I also wondered if it was a misdirection ploy..... nt

[IronLionZion]

6. Meritocracy of super geniuses

true greatness doesn't have time to verify anything before spewing forth BS.

[orangecrush]

7. How much more

Before the ass kicking begins?

[littlemissmartypants]

8. I can see...

These psychopaths doing this intentionally as a sick joke and then laughing about it.

[Emile]

9. Yep, he is running the government like a businessman.

[0rganism]

10. Living recipients to be denied for being "dead" while fired staff gets referred for escalation to actual dead people

It's sick, it's cruel, and it's only getting started. In a year, this country is going to be damned-near unrecognizable.

[Cinnamonspice]

11. I don't understand why Republican politicians are allowing this.

It's coming out that a lot of them are questioning everything, but they're still unwilling to stand up to Trump in fear of being primaried out. This is the most cowardly party ever. And after seeing that the two seats in Florida went to the Republican, I'm thinking there's no hope for America.

Trump is going to burn it down. Let it burn. I'll just do the best I can to survive and to help my family to survive. I heard the other day the average empire falls after about 250 years. It's time. Thanks Trump.