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I would get together with my entire department/ division, and respond as a group, and demand double pay, and lots of perks, to return. They either pay it, or somehow recruit and train the entire department.
Then unionize the entire Federal government.
Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation
Saved Billions there, right?
And as another commenter said: the full story is even worse. Add to that that these guys will have a LOT of extra work to get their workplace in order when they get back.
And the best ones said fuck it, I'm going elsewhere.
Well done, DOGE
Destroyers of Government Efficiency.
What a shit article. The courts ruled that the hundreds of employees that were placed on admin leave pending termination for working there less than a year were fired illegally. They cannot fire them. Since they are still on admin leave they have to come back.
What they failed to mention is that all of the employees who were put on admin leave pending termination, who then took the “fork” offer do not get to come back because they “quit.”
The GSA was and is DOGE central and is completely broken right now.
EVERYTHING is completely broken right now.
As per the Dead Sea Effect, the people who are coming back aren't the ones they want.
I had to google the Dead Sea Effect: it means that when a workplace has a bad culture, the most skilled and ambitious workers are first to leave and those who have a habit to do the minimum will remain.
Anyway, I'd say this effect is weaker in this situation, because many workers are there truly to serve their country, not merely as "generic workers". They might feel that they have something important to contribute to the society, which means there's an actual chance for even some of the best to return.
the employees would be a fools, if they arnt asking for triple the pay, plus severance, and other stipulations incase they are refired again, which will happen.
What job market? If you were jobless all this time... They have them by the balls.
yeah some other person had a response like this and its like. um. and also trump wants them gone. the court only requires them to have the option of not having been fired.
paragraphs 2 and 5 in the article. The employees get to keep their contract buyouts, meaning they got half a year off at the same rate of pay.
I'm guessing they replacing people with AI didn't work and nobody from the private sector is willing to touch that for what the administration is willing to pay.
Ahh yes, hire them back just in time for the government to shutdown because you're such a a fucking idiot trump.
As long as it's former employees. I've been expecting restaffing but with party loyalists.
This wasn’t that well thought out.
Well, it was. That was exactly the plan of Project 2025. Problem was, Musk steamrolled over all that to implement step one while forgetting that there's a step two.
I said shortly after the election that they wouldn't be able to implement half of Project 2025 because of reality getting in the way. The Project 2025 Tracker currently lists it as 47% complete, and it's been stuck around there for quite some time. I didn't expect my prediction to be that literally close, but there it is.
pretty hard to find COMPETENT loyalist, who know how things work in government.
I expected them to outsource or privatize.
Muppets.