HHS victims of the Reduction in Force (RIF) employees who’ve received letters are being told it’s for performance, citing their most
recent performance.

But multiple employees have told me the numbers are completely fabricated and do not actually reflect performance stats.

From email:
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Handful of white men--the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, Thiel techbros, Evangelical pastors--decide they don't want or need government, strip it down to nothing and hand it over to criminals--Trump, Musk, the DOGEbags, the rest of today's Republican party.
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The lie they are being fired for poor performance is like the lie we are being told deportees are gang members.

Lives are being ruined.
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I'm afraid the OCR on that text really really didn't work.
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Of course it has nothing to do with performance.

That is an attempt to cite ‘cause’ and to render workers ineligible for unemployment benefits.
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This is the fever dream of Russell Vought come to life. It is criminal morally and by statute
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how much you wanna bet they told some crappy AI to find "low-performing" employees
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Which is probably why it took so long for this action to commence! You actually need TIME to fabricate performance information like this! It needs to be a class action lawsuit,. QUICKLY!
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And the #Grifters, #Oligarchs, and #Panderers (#GOP) are OK with this?
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Can you share the broader email? Performance is the last criteria for retention registers, but it is converted by formula to additional years in service and added in that way.
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of course, lies upon fucking lies
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These are all things you are normally required to do in a RIF (e.g. veterans get higher protection). These RIFs were done purely on job codes and they did none of the required crosschecking (couldn't possibly have done it in this short time period).
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Allegedly a number of health and human service advocacy organizations are planning on legal action against the HHS reorganization, consolidation, and RIFs. More to come.
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This sounds consistent with reporting on previous firings under this GOP administration. And what they said they’d do in Project 2025.
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Our union negotiated performance evals to be pass/fail rather than a 1-5 rating system, so NO idea how that's going to affect our inevitable RIF
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I had a coworker who would print EVERY EMAIL. She would file it away in her cabinet. But she would never look at them. She had them memorized once they went in there.

We need people who print records and keep them.

This was the best use case for blockchain and it still sucked for that.
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If HHS claims RIF employees are being laid off for "performance" they'll have trouble collecting unemployment benefits.

Cruelty DOUBLED is the point. 🤬

Any public service lawyers out there willing to build a class-action suit to help these people out?
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Class action lawsuit? People need to be [redacted] and doing [redacted] against the state. Fuck the courts.
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These people have families, mortgages, bills to pay. Unemployment benefits wouldn't even come close to replacing their salaries, and they may have been the only source of health insurance coverage for their families, too.

Resist, yes! But never forget the humanity of Muskrats' victims.
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That’s what I mean by we need to be taking shit down so they don’t need to go through that. The courts is just a long lengthy process that does not provide relief and probably won’t do shit to stop the harm.
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I’m saying that all the federal employees fired alongside the people should lock in unison.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message: Hands off!
https://handsoff2025.com/
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I received a tip yesterday that FDA employees at the Element Building in Rockville, MD were sent home with all their things and told they would receive an email with further information.

It’s obvious now they wanted people home for the mass layoffs.
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Who needs safe and effective - food and drug regulation and testing? 👀 anyway? 👀 👀
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And they are purging black folks.
Plain and simple.
10, 20, 30 year employees.
Institutional knowledge.
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They think institutional knowledge is not a thing, or that if it ever was a thing, it’s an outdated relic now because AI.
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It's always about the optics, never the human beings. 🤬
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I appreciate the work you do. These aren’t layoffs. They’re firings/terminations, and are likely not legal, especially if these HHS firings are for “performance.” In that case, they’re definitely not legal, because there’s a legal process to address performance and this isn’t it.
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Hopefully cases are adjucated quickly with a Temporary Restraining Order" (TRO)😅
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People also need to know that employees’ performance evals were tampered with. Pretty much everyone is reporting at least one incorrect “3” on their RIF letter when they actually received a 4 or a 5.
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I guarantee you, someone used an algorithm to change the performance evals in this way, replacing at least one eval from person with a 3 when they had a higher score. The changes look wayyyy too algorithmic. I smell a Muskrat. Ex: 5,5,5 (actual) —> 3,5,5 or 5,3,5 or 5,5,3.
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Like the election!
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Yes. I got a 5,3,5 on my letter. I’ve never gotten a 3 on a performance review. They changed them all.
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That sounds like grounds for a major lawsuit.
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Indeed
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Some agencies haven’t been able to access their performance evals since mid-February because doge made the system the evals are in inaccessible to employees and supervisors. Shady stuff.
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Yikes. Well, it’s a good thing we have confirmation from those who do have access that their evals were tampered with.
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Every piece of evidence helps. Every person willing to speak out helps.
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That snippet you shared is the correct way to RIF. The last agency to do mass RIFs was EPA under 1.0. So that's what everyone is using and performance ratings are part of the process. But not to justify the RIF.

https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/RIF-EPA-Presentation-2025.pdf
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There's a lot that goes into the retention calculations. Length of service, veteran status, etc.
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Yeah, and they're doing exactly zero of that.
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What is happening at the NIH is both gutwrenching and senseless. The biomedical research enterprise not only saves lives it drives US prosperity.
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We will all pay in the years ahead for the settlements that public servants fired under false pretenses will win.

And, in the meantime, the greater damage to quality governance, public health, science, the economy, and people’s lives will mount.
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They don’t reflect performance reports at all! They tampered with them!
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This alt text is hard to read
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The joys of LLMs, assuming the mush boys are even capable enough to actually implement a model. Completely made up automated bullshit.
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Well, they probably fed a model the job data, the model hallucinated some complete bullshit as they usually do when faced with a task outside of their training and they just copy-pasted it without checking it (because they weren't really able to check it for so many people).
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That's the main feature. Just generate some documents to justify whatever it is they want to justify.
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