Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services showed up to their offices on Tuesday to learn their fate: If their badges worked, they still had a job. If they didn’t, they had to clean out their desks.
“I was crying the entire drive to work today,” an HHS employee told Business Insider as they waited in line.
The employee said they saw a man walk past, wheeling out his personal belongings on a desk chair after being terminated.
“I’ve seen three people who went in, and then came back out and left with tears in their eyes,” said the employee, who was eventually let into the building. “People behind me are sniffling.”
The same badge-scan strategy used in Tesla layoffs has hit federal workers
