Fired After 50? 3 Steps Older Federal Workers Should Take Now
Wayan Vota quickly saw the problem when the White House issued a stop-work order for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in late January. His economic development work as a federal contractor for the agency trained him to focus on the numbers.
“I did the math. I was the one who told the company that we were going to have a serious cash crunch and that we were going to have to lay off staff,” says Vota, 52. “But still, when they laid me off, it was intense. I cried in my teen daughter’s arm, which was definitely a wild role rehearsal.”
By Kenneth Terrell, AARP
