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[–] Theprogressivist 32 points 1 month ago

About time you got the fuck out of Jersey you greaseball.

[–] just_another_person 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not now? More grifting to try and get done?

[–] Rapidcreek 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He's got a big office to wind down. Staff given time to find new jobs, etc.

[–] simplejack 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assume most of the people that could easily leave have already left. You’re have to be really drinking the Kool Aid if you thought a job in his office was secure.

[–] Rapidcreek 6 points 1 month ago

That's quite an assumption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here's how you wind that down: Walk out and lock the door behind you.

[–] Rapidcreek 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A guy like Menendez has years worth of archives to manage. At least a dozen of staff which has to be placed, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With regard to staff: It's a job, and the job is over. That's what unemployment insurance is for.

Give Menendez an afternoon to fill some bankers' boxes with his personal items and carry them down to the trunk of his car for him.

[–] Rapidcreek 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do government employees receive unemployment insurance?

[–] Pacattack57 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why can’t he resign immediately and his staff keeps their jobs until the 20th. Or even better pay them severance.

[–] Rapidcreek -3 points 1 month ago

Not the way employment works.

[–] lennybird 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good bye. I like when Democrats clean house.

Sometimes they do so a bit too much, though. Al Franken and Katie Hill were done dirty.

[–] snausagesinablanket 2 points 1 month ago

known to the mafia as Bobby Gold Bricks