Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign
An email went out to the federal workforce Tuesday evening, with a subject line that had ties to Elon Musk.
They are going to be stuck rehiring people that resign as consultants because they won't have the people to run the legally required programs in place.
It will end up costing more money for the government.
I have little hope that the people that actually vote will even remember how fucked all this is two years from now.
I dunno, how does 8 months pay sound more appealing than a pension?
I’m pretty sure the idea is to get rid of dissenters in an easy and legal way, while keeping those like-minded individuals who will toe the line.
I think the idea is to scare dissenters into quitting, because otherwise their position may get downsized otherwise and they lose out on any benefits and pension.
Just think of how you could retire if you put all of that into Trump and Malania coins. Heck, maybe even a Baron coin!
"legally required programs"? What law? Show me where that matters. Who will enforce such laws when all of the people running these programs are gone?
I know why Trump appeals to so many people. He's the politician/business who acknowledged that rules are made up by fallible humans and can be re-written. The problem is, when we have similar politicians on the left who try to break the system for the working class the liberals agree that it's terrible in the same way that they agree that trump is terrible, but the oligarchs don't see an avenue for profit and so they fight against them as well.
It's as simple as you need people to actually enforce laws and carry out programs laid out by Congress.
I don't think you understand how laws work. The laws I work to to support were promulgated in the 1970s after rivers were lighting on fire.
They are complicated to enforce because the companies that cause environmental harm can afford high powered attorneys and lobbyists to prevent them from being enforced.
There is no one working on behalf of the american people to try to meet the intent of many of these laws we rely on - such as those to keep our environment, air we breathe, water we drink, relatively safe. Other than those in the government that have the authority to do so.
I don't know how all of the other various agencies work specifically, but that's generally what people are doing in the government
You don't seem to understand this so you don't value it. I think once it gets more fucked up, you will. This isn't a liberal or conservative thing. The laws I work with were put on the books by Nixon. This is a rich stealing from you issue. Not left/right.
But maybe you are just troll, probably.
Lol, "rehiring". What if I told you that he doesn't intend to replace them?
If they toss in health insurance for a they will get some people resigning. Those that were planning on retiring in less than 8 months.
Resign now and get 8 months of pay or retire in 4 months and get 4 months of pay.... Hmmmmm....
The official email reads more as you keep doing your job as you have been through the end of the fiscal year and you can resign. We won't fire you before that. If you don't voluntarily resign we might fire you before that. Isn't a guaranteed 8 months of work better than being fired in three months.
Putin's (very) useful idiot is now in the process of completing his work destroying the US federal government. Hope state governments can pick up the slack, because they'll have to.
EDIT: And, surprise! Red states are more dependent on federal funding than blue states are.
He wants to destroy the European Union, so it's not surprising he wants to destroy American Union as well.
I'm guessing most Federal workers aren't stupid enough to believe Trump would actually pay the buyout amount. Especially after Presidential "advisor" Elon failed to pay Twitter severance.
A Trump never pays his debts
Chaos is not a pit. Chaos is a ladder.
As a federal employee, you have a very optimistic view of most federal employees. Theres a sizeable number that will happily slob the knob if the orange one told them to.
It's a good thing this guy always pays his debts otherwise some might think this is a dirt trick.
he always sometimes pays when it's with someone else's money.
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Someone on reddit pointed out there’s an OPM rule that makes max payout at something like $25k. Let me go dig it up real quick.
Because that means a lot of people wouldn’t get paid the full amount and Trump is absolutely the kind of person who would use shit like that as an excuse to not keep paying out. I wouldn’t trust this deal because based on stuff like this it doesn’t pass the sniff test.
Apologies for (slight retch) a reddit link:
zedextol:
Per OPM, the federal government can’t legally pay more than $25k, pre-tax. This is another scam. Trump is the literal master of grift. You think he’s gonna make good on this debt after years of not paying his bills?
Edit: Source below
Fuck up the system enough to make it fail.
Reinstall what you need with only Party loyalists.
Now you control the system.
Watch them word it poorly and accidentally release every active duty service member from their contracts.
Id probably go the px and get new tags made with the female (F) identifier since we've all be declared female.
Change the religion to "Ooga Booga"
That would be amazing to watch
This is going to save so much money guys. Nevermind that they'll likely end up rehiring most of these folks at higher rates when they realize they don't know the code for the fax machine.
Or when they have to fix the Fortran program that runs the whole Navy or something.
This doesn't seem in any way legal
Says who? Under the US legal system, anything is legal if the SCOTUS agrees with it. If Trump declared himself Führer tomorrow they'd validate that as constitutional. At this point suing the US government for its blatantly unconstitutional acts is merely a delaying tactic.
Americans must stop twiddling their thumbs while expecting Trump's DoJ/SCOTUS/congress to work for the American people and start resisting because the key institutions have already fallen to fascism.
It is if you sign
It's not actually a buyout. It's a promise to pay them exactly how much they would make to work for 6 more months and then quit. But they can't quit before then. Also they need to let them know by next week. Also also, there will be no additional severance pay.
This kind of stupid blanket approach tells you that we have idiots running this country who have no idea what these workers are actually doing, nor what the impact will be of them resigning on the well being and national security of the country.
Just going to leave this here
https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrategicServicesProvisional/page/n14/mode/1up
DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE
And failing that I just dropped this totally by accident and am already walking away…
https://archive.org/details/tm-21-210-improvised-munitions-handbook-1969-department-of-the-army
Break it, then claim it's not working and only you can fix it, straight out of the fascist playbook
Is this president wankpanzer firing people that he will regret to have fired and then rehire them again, again?!
So what happens when every employee in the IRS takes the offer, quits immediately and goes home?
They will not pay or it will be pennies on the dollar of their salary. This is some political theater
True, but my point was directed more towards "where will the Gub be getting its money from?"
Rich people like raiding government coffers because there's lots of free money there.
All of them should take it.
And immediately be replaced by Nazis? I’m not sure that’s a good solution to any problem.
If Trump makes you an offer, always refuse it.
