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Eventually people are gonna decide that working for free sucks and they just won't come in.
Sadly, that is the point. Part of project 2025 is to remove as many workers as they can and when a position needs to be filled, make sure it's a loyalist. This is just the means to an end for the fascist.
Mostly inept, incompetent, stupid loyalists.
It's like the Dead Sea Effect with steps on the end.
Learned something new today, thank you internet stranger.
We can let the seats be empty and stop them from filling it with anyone if the government stays shutdown and we also get the benefit of the armed forces and ice not being paid so they will stop kidnapping people
Are you kidding? That's their fucking dream job. They'd even pay just for the privilege. Fucking pigs
Should be minute 1. Unpaid work is slavery
No it's not. It's wage theft, plain and simple
It's wage theft except the part where they're forcing them to work.
They could just quit. For some positions, you can't strike, which is bullshit enough, but you can just say fuck you I quit
No one will put you in chains and lock you to your desk, it's not legal to retaliate
You also give up your pension and ability to work for the government again. Thinking of ATC specifically, where you won't ever be able to work in your field again in the US (and it's very rare to be able to continue working in ATC in another country)
That's a tough ask when economic conditions are so unstable
It is a tough ask, especially now, which is why I'm not asking. I do think it's unreasonable to ask
But I'd like to remind the people in that position that it is an option. People tend to dismiss options they should seriously think through...It's not an easy option, but it might be worse than the alternative
Yeah sure, everybody CAN just quit.
"It's not legal to retaliate"? Motherfucker when has this administration cared about what's legal, they're talking about making people work and then not giving them back pay.
Even before the trump administration's it's not as if the labour market was fair lol.
Why are you going to bat for people trying to enslave workers exactly?
Because, motherfucker, I want them to quit. They are not slaves to the state, and when things break because of their absence that's great politically
And we have a name for this already - wage theft. I hope every employee, furloughed or still working, puts forward a lawsuit
I'm not about to pressure people to quit because the job market is hell right now, but I'm sure as hell going to remind them it's an option
gee I wonder why air traffic controllers are getting sick.
It's perfectly valid, and expected, that ATC would call in sick if they so much as didn't sleep well. One mistake could cause the deaths of hundreds of people. Sean Duffy did threaten them with firings if they call in sick, but the policies didn't change
I'd say the vast majority calling in sick legitimately are unfit to work. The stress of non-payment is not conducive to that type of work, especially when their wages have fallen ~40% relative to inflation over the past 20 years
I think the worst part is that Trump openly flirted with paying only the people he likes - his MAGA folks, and only the parts of government he likes. You work on wind turbine safety? No pay for you.