Let the chaos begin!
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For clarity, many years ago, I made a post highlighting just how many people would become jobless if we cut the federal government by X amount. One of our local small government posters said something to the effect of, "Then pay them their salaries for life, I don't care, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the money we'll save by not having those programs."
Is that what you think. For years I said old mushy peas was being controlled by 20 something social workers. Squad politics. You think all of this is Elon? I guess. Trump is no wonk. I don’t believe any of this is his grand plan. I don’t think he thinks about much below the surface. Maybe you’re right and this is what musk bought. Or someone
The seperation packages was pretty common knowledge before Trump even won the election.
I do think Elon’s fingerprints are all over these recent EO’s. The halting federal funding is straight out of his Twitter playbook when he went in and started slashing vendors left and right.
But do not overlook the silent assassin Stephen Miller.
I would not even call this a buyout. From what it sounds like you can agree to resign in 8 months but continue to work from home until then. So the big benefit is 8 months of WFH to quit a Fed gov job? Can't imagine many going to jump on that unless they already planned to retire this year
@Marvin the Martian noted long ago that musk’s business practices may not jive with the mission and values and culture of gov. Bumpy stuff
Not very attractive for someone with a bunch of years, vesting, losing benes etc. someone in just a year or two maybe woot woot vaca time
The Office of Personnel Management posted the email with a headline “Fork in the Road.” The subject was the same one used by Elon Musk in November 2022 when he purchased Twitter, now called X. Musk told employees to commit to long hours at high intensity or leave the company. He is working with Trump on streamlining the federal government through what he calls the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE.
And Musk found out that Brad was the secret FAA dude behind the New Jersey drone shows. He had to take a truckload of batteries to the Garden State to keep the fleet airborne. And he messed around with some cougars when he had down time. And here he is talking about 40-hour work weeks. Took him no more than 30 hours. He should have been out collecting eggs those other 10 hours. DOGE rules.
Layoffs suck.
That said 500k tech employees have lost their job since 2022. Mainly normal people.
The era of federal government employment meaning permanent job security is over.
Organizations in fiscal distress need to reduce headcount and get leaner.
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