Speaking as a former civil service manager, this might have unintended consequences. Like, every worker over 55 clearing out. Federal workers LOOOOOVVVE those sweet sweet buyout packages.
Actually, they won’t be replacing them. Federal worker here 👋🏻
Most of the time when they offer buyouts for people to retire, they don’t backfill the position. Which means those of us who are still here are left to pick up all the work from the people who left. We are overworked and understaffed.
Sure. Not to disparage the intelligence and expertise of the loyalists, but twenty thousand Trumpies might have, let’s say, a steep learning curve. Remember sending the Bush loyalists into Iraq? That went well.
I am perfectly willing to disparage the intelligence and expertise of the loyalists. Everything I have seen indicates that they are a stupid bunch of shitsuckers.
It's almost like he wants to cause a recession...
We're already on the verge with very low hiring. All it would take is this kind of mass "layoff" from the government to push us over the edge.
Then again, recessions are what Republicans do... so... no surprise there.
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Most of the time when they offer buyouts for people to retire, they don’t backfill the position. Which means those of us who are still here are left to pick up all the work from the people who left. We are overworked and understaffed.
We're already on the verge with very low hiring. All it would take is this kind of mass "layoff" from the government to push us over the edge.
Then again, recessions are what Republicans do... so... no surprise there.