The ripple effects of Elon Musk’s DOGE firing squad have just begun.
First told she had been put on a list, then told she was probably OK only to be texted 45 minutes later to come back to the office. By then it wasn’t a surprise. “I’m fired, right?” she said. “I’m so sorry,” her supervisor replied. He urged her to digitally sign a required form before her computer access was cut off but then came back moments later to say they were holding off until Tuesday to fire everybody because of the Presidents Day holiday.
That was when Jeanmarie Wheeler, a natural resource specialist at the Bureau of Land Management in Challis, Idaho, lost it. “I basically exploded,” she told the Daily Beast. “I was so done. I felt so insulted.”
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