lol, lmao even
Been said before, but a speed run of the collapse of the American Empire was supposed to take years, not months. This is next level tech and hopefully we can see a Project 2025 ghoul at this year’s SGDQ
generally most of the reason for staying in a GS rated position is the benefits, including the pension which is calculated based on years of service.
it isn’t like tech douche start up world where it’s all salary and stove-piped stock options and a maniacal boss who can terminate medical insurance at a whim.
there simply aren’t enough political appointees to oversee and pressure people to leave without an actual pension buyout including healthcare, which would balloon the shit out of costs, which would over what these agencies have in their budgets. which would require added funding from congress… good luck selling that as efficiency.
there’s a reason they are saying “paid through September” because that’s all the funding they have to work with, since that’s the end of the federal fiscal calendar.
honestly, I bet they don’t even get 5% of the workforce to take the bait, even making it so easy to resign with Musk’s auto-resign-by-email app, which probably fails some HR paperwork requirement of a legit digital signature.
Musk’s auto-resign-by-email app
Someone could do something really fucking funny if they can trick it into accepting incorrect emails.
People are missing the actual point of this. It is a bribes based government purge. It is actually pretty brilliant and also terrifying.
More or less.
This is how a lot of companies these days avoid ‘layoffs’, they offer things like this where people who know they will be fired, or who are close to retirement, or who want to go elsewhere, take the severance because it’s better than just being canned (or leaving) anyway
is a bribes based government purge
Am I just clueless
but what do you mean? Do you mean, bribing people who will stay on???No, it’s bribing people to leave without making a fuss.
Ah right I think I understand
The goal is to “drain the swamp” of all federal workers to both reduce the size and capacity of the federal govt, to of course be replaced by the private sector, and purge the federal government of non-loyalists so that he can replace them with loyalists.
By doing all he’s done this past week - forced return to office, freezing funds and communication, freezing travel and just generally making it impossible for people to do their work, he gives them a reason to want to leave. He then sweetens the deal by offering buyouts to those who leave. So either stay at your job and deal with roadblocks and a toxic work environment, or take a buyout and get pay and benefits through September.
Edit: btw he did this to the USDA in his first term. Decided to move parts of the agency out to Kansas City. Many with lives and families in DC didn’t want to go. So now those offices of the USDA have been gutted. No buyout, but a similar goal, find a way to force federal workers to leave.
He also moved the BLM headquarters from DC to some mining town in Colorado
Buying goodwill from people you would have fired anyway
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It would be so funny if Elon did a coup
Radicalization delivered to every household! Louis DeJoy sent to the gulag!
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Imagine being on track to quit and taking this instead lol
It’s not even a buyout, it’s a you get to keep teleworking but you voluntarily resign by September.
King of deals, at it again
Oh it’s telework till September and not PTO till September? Waaay worse deal fuck that
It’s unclear, the email that was sent reads like what I said but OPM released a memo that says they should be put on admin leave unless needed to continue critical work or transfer responsibilities which is to be determined by agency which lol means you’ll be working still.
Screaming and shaking in my cage rn because I cannot simply sit back
Sending thought and prayer
I’m sorry comrade. Perhaps I’ll send you thoughts and popcorn
This emote is going to get a looot of mileage in the next few years
I said so many fucking times that if Elon comes in and does DOGE and fires 30% of the US states’ workforce in “cost savings” like he did at X the entire machine will come to a grinding halt.
I can’t fucking believe they’re actually doing it.
Hahaha holy shit he’s blowing up the government.
Decades in weeks comrade
The next 4 years are about to be a century lmao
De-lib-ification
Once again
stays winning just The us is so cooked lol
Severance? Like the TV show?
No, like the evil teacher from Harry Patter.
I thought it was that three headed dog
Or rather, that one Balkan country.
actually joker laughed
That’s really really funny. Not that bad on a “fucking over a bunch of people directly” level, very bad from a “keeping the American State a going concern level
This shit is completely absurd lmfao
i thought such measures were for smaller countries like Argentina, Greece or ones outside the capitalist bloc like the USSR. But nope.
An email went out to the federal workforce Tuesday evening, with a subject line that had ties to Elon Musk.
The starving organism cannibalizes its own body.
