How to invent unemployment. Two million unemployed over night. What president in history has set a goal to invent unemployment? Meanwhile, all of his perks are on the Government. He and his people are government DEPENDENTS.
Ironic that this email includes ‘standards of conduct’ as one of the “pillars” expected of employees, while the criminal first felon, with no standard of conduct, is directing this. #FFOTUS
Aside from none of us having jobs or any unemployment benefits? They can fire me when the I refuse the loyalty pledge in a few months, but in the meantime, I've definitely been reaching out to former colleagues to see if there's anywhere I can land.
Your clean room, experiment affects actual lives. People have bills to pay, families to feed, medical expenses to cover. Walking away en masse from severance or even unemployment with no job prospects is insanity. And what would it do exactly? Giving them what they want is not resistance.
He isn’t just killing the federal government, he is eliminating thousands of jobs in rural a communities that desperately need the income the federal positions provide.
"Enhanced standards of conduct: The federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence in their daily work."
Have these phucknuckles eyeballed the current/proposed cabinet members?
1/ People need to understand that this regime is already operating as an autocracy. Its only attention to the Constitution is formality/cosplay. It believes that they can disregard the law & the Constitution. It has challenged the Constitution to test the July 1, 2024 SCOTUS ruling. It believes it …
2/ …has absolute immunity up to & including using the military against the populace, incarcerating or even assassinating political opposition & officials in the judicial & legislative branches, accepting bribes for vetos, appointments, etc.
Always glad to come across Adrienne’s incisive takes. And she’s completely right, here.
They’ll push until they meet the limits of what they can get away with. Especially since the SCOTUS ruling. They need to be met with real resistance. We must hold the line and check their power at every turn.
They’ll keep going until they’re stopped. I’m not seeing a response appropriate to the most dangerous constitutional crisis of my life time. Opposition leadership needs to be torn down and rebuilt?
I intend to make the case that the SCOTUS supermajority violated there oaths to the Constitution in their July 1, 2024 ruling, voiding the Constitution, thereby voiding the Feds power to tax. I will invoke the original intent of the Constitution & refuse consent to absolute despotism.
Senator Tim Kaine: "He's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn't have any authority to do this. Do not be fooled by this guy"
Donny is executing his blitzkrieg just like he said he would.
The "somewhat" good news... the courts are starting to step into the ring.
#TogetherWeStand
I may be misunderstanding but it appears that, rather than a buyout, this is offering employees 8 months of the ability to work from home if they commit to resigning by Sept 30 (i.e. 8 months from now).
"you will retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and will be exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements until September 30, 2025"
"The federal workforce should be comprised of the best America has to offer. We will insist on excellence at every level (except Secretary of Defense, a clown is fine for that)"
“Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline, including termination.”
Written by people who have no idea how to actually manage people or organize anything. This was written from a place of pure spite and assholery. They think federal workers deserve to be treated that way. They think they know better than all the people in history before them that built all this up.
I suppose this is all legal on the up and up...I'm afraid so many will leave and unqualified MAGA Loyalist will fill in. They will do his bidding, no questions asked, to help his next phase of becoming a true Dictator.
Imagine the power of this medium if everybody was rational, educated, and civically minded, and NOBODY was an idiot (looking at you, red hats). Imagine how great America would daily be.
But no, we have to roll back the clock to Grover Cleveland.
We should send them mass emails, where we all say resign, and then they spend months trying to find the real replies, just like the ice hotline that went down because so many people were reporting Naziboy.
that letter just pissed a lot of federal workers off ... I've seen posts from some who were thinking about leaving until they got that letter, now they're digging in for the fight ... I'm not going anywhere, fk them all
Given health cover is totally tied to employment in the US (gross by the way, completely barbaric) what TF will they all do? As an Australian I am just horrified and sad watching the rise of corporate led fascism in a country that has been self-destructing for decades.
"Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline, including termination."
So, um, what happens to 2 million employees leave their jobs? Think you're getting a new passport anytime soon? How many flights will be grounded thanks to not having TSA workers? Need a copy of your SS card? Good luck.
And how about veterans? The VA is already understaffed and underfunded. AND they have suspended the veteran suicide helpline. Not hyperbole to think veterans will die.
The blatant implication in all "pillars" is exactly, stay in line or face consequences. It's obey or be termed (at the least).
I hope as many as possible can afford to bolt immediately. Staying will ultimately endanger them.
GET OUT NOW!
YES! Let's take back OUR country NOW!! WE THE PEOPLE need to be aggressive and loud to defend OUR Democracy and 250 year old Republic!! Stop the insanity and lies!! Time is NOW to kick the lying and dangerous orange turd and his minions out of office before he destroys everything!!
Should we have another ELECTION if we get that opportunity... That administration has its work cut out... They're going to NEED to rebuild the entirety of the government from the ground up. -ONE.🇺🇸
It’s not severance the way I read it, unless you already work from home it just an offer to let you keep working until the time runs out, the sort of shit that could really cause stress bad enough that you could be at home for years on disability.
Including Congress and his Cabinet, or nah?
“Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward. Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline, including termination.”
This letter means that someone likely told them that their plan to just fire everyone wasn't going to work without them winning a years-long battle in federal court.
"Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline, including termination."
The letter does not promise severance payment, does not address continuation of health care or other benefits and does not assure service credit for pension purposes for the early resignation. It does not address what happens if the whole program is found to be illegal. Is it a scam?
Here is one of the scarier parts, what exactly does it mean??? I guess we’ll find out…
“Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward.”
So that 4th bullet sounds a lot like a catch-all in that, anything we didn’t specifically mention in the first 3 is included in the 4th…including the kitchen sink. I mean fuck, you could show up to work in a tutu and if you’re GOP you’re safe. Go work with a Kamala hat and watch your life unravel.
Pretty sure my 22 years of service with TSA is exempt as national security. Would you know for sure? I’m pretty sure I’m having a panic attack over this.
I just heard Stephen Miller say all Federal employees are leftists. This is apparently based on espionage regarding who they voted for and donated to during the last election. Can I get a Zeig Heil?
I am an employee of a less targeted agency. I am terrified. I will not resign, but the program I work for has already been crippled by all of the EOs to the point that everything is at a standstill. How is this efficient?
After just a week of "let's destroy America" & after declaring all federal must return to the office plus all future employees would be based on merit Agent Orange plays golf in Florida while the most unqualified, inexperienced & dangerous nominees face confirmation hearings.
Our union here said it was a scam and no one should sign it. There are no legal protections of due process for anyone who makes the mistake of signing it
Step one is to make it easier to fire people, then make examples out of anyone who dissents, the rest will fall in line and those who are fired will be replaced with “loyalists”
This part-Performance culture: The federal workforce should be comprised of the best America has to offer. a fair and open way those who do not meet the high standards which the taxpayers of this country have a right to demand.
"While a few agencies and even branches of the military are likely to see increases in the size of their workforce, the majority of federal agencies are likely to be downsized..."
Translation: We're expanding the parts of the government that carry guns. No reason.
“The federal workforce should be comprised of the best America has to offer. We will insist on excellence at every level — our performance standards will be updated to reward and promote those that exceed expectations …”
Now we know how they view anyone outside their clubhouse
By such measure, the Tangerine Tyrant himself should be cast out first, for his crimes are many—fraud, insurrection, deceit, and disgrace. Yet his hand wields the blade, seeking to strike down others while he stands guilty of far worse. Hypocrisy most foul, a mockery of justice and honor!
This mass resignation push undercuts the stability of our federal workforce and puts essential services at risk. Forcing workers out isn’t reform—it’s dismantling public service. We see it for what it is, and now it’s time to act, organize, and protect those who keep our nation running
How many went to the department of education? Higher Ed is in the process of packaging student financial aid for next fall. How many students will be impacted when no one is left to coordinate federal programs? How many colleges and universities will collapse?
With the degradation of our government, diversion of funds, collapse of our alliances, and decimation of our military, I think it was all a strategy to make the US a soft target for attack or invasion. Or at the very least, take us out of the fight.
This is not a signed letter. There's no authority in this document. OPM doesn't have the authority to authorize something like this. It would be agency to agency so It's a scare tactic. It's almost word for the email that Elon sent out to his Twitter employees and none of them received severance.
It is another of many ways they communicate their low opinion of fed workers. The incentives are continued work-from-home and that vague severance. I wouldn’t trust any of these people.
And working from home thru September is NOT severance! It’s work! Again, they communicate that they think remote and teleworkers are taking naps or playing video games, but def not working. Thinking the worst about folks who dedicate lives to others because they don’t understand public service.
YES! Let's take back OUR country NOW!! WE THE PEOPLE need to be aggressive and loud to defend OUR Democracy and 250 year old Republic!! Stop the insanity and lies!! Time is NOW to kick the lying and dangerous orange turd and his minions out of office before he destroys everything!!
Trump plays gulf in Florida most of the time. I guess we’re luckily he’s not around to make things even worse but it does make one wonder who really is calling the shots. He’s too dumb to have figured any of this project 2025 implementation out.
The way I read it, the agency "can" adjust your workload. It doesn't say that it has too. Isn't it just letting you give them advance notice of your retirement and then giving up any unemployment benefits that you might get if you would be furlough?
This will be expensive and the people will probably never see the money. No one would want to continue to work for the federal government under these circumstances.
A large majority of the workforce is union. It’s clear they don’t want to deal with the court fights with this. Let the unions deal with them. Also there’s no appropriated money, so this is one of his lies.
It was reported they’re starting up the “loyalty pledge” documents again too. The Supreme Court already ruled in Trump‘s first term that those things have no validity for govt employees. It’s all about who you can scare. Or IDENTIFY.
Probably not. It’s all about scaring off the “low hanging fruit”. Every person they can intimidate is one less they have to deal with with real authority.
Got this and I’m in the office. I only remote work VERY infrequently and had to fill out paperwork for that. This makes me so angry I wish I hadn’t looked online after I got home and then checked my email…
There’s a lot to unpack there. Reading between the lines, loyalty pledges are coming and qualified, knowledgeable people are going to be replaced by fucking morons. A lot of Americans are going to die (not hyperbole) by gutting the federal workforce. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
No one with any integrity will survive. It'll be hell until you quit or get fired, which won't be long.
If at all possible, get out now. Protect yourself & your family.
Purging the employees doesn’t make the work go away. So paying the staff left in the ashes overtime will actually cost them more.
They are looking to post fake news headlines cheering how many needless positions they cut when the reality is many agencies are understaffed. Not a brain amongst them!
Unemployment is paid by the employer so if they were to take the deal trump would pay less and they wouldn't be entitled to any unemployment down the road. Trump would also save himself a wrongful firing or constructive dismissal lawsuit. Don't quit, make contact with an employment lawyer.
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If you save yourself one by one, they will deal with you one by one.
If you organise? Can USA function without ALL of you at the same time?
This is next level Fucked Up!!
18 U.S.C. §1918 makes it a felony to strike against the United States or belong to a union that asserts the right to strike against the United States.
Have these phucknuckles eyeballed the current/proposed cabinet members?
SCOTUS enabled full scale tyranny.
I do not consent.
You are not alone.
#resist
They’ll push until they meet the limits of what they can get away with. Especially since the SCOTUS ruling. They need to be met with real resistance. We must hold the line and check their power at every turn.
I intend to make the case that the SCOTUS supermajority violated there oaths to the Constitution in their July 1, 2024 ruling, voiding the Constitution, thereby voiding the Feds power to tax. I will invoke the original intent of the Constitution & refuse consent to absolute despotism.
The "somewhat" good news... the courts are starting to step into the ring.
#TogetherWeStand
“Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline, including termination.”
But no, we have to roll back the clock to Grover Cleveland.
(Shamelessly stolen from another forum)
Congress has to pass a law to do it.
I don’t see a majority of Republicans doing that.
Uh-oh, Trump's in trouble!
https://fedscoop.com/opm-email-federal-workforce-lawsuit-server-privacy-security/#:~:text=A%20lawsuit%20filed%20in%20federal,system%20as%20required%20by%20law.
I hope as many as possible can afford to bolt immediately. Staying will ultimately endanger them.
GET OUT NOW!
"The federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence in their daily work."
We all know what "loyal" means in this context.
“Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward. Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline, including termination.”
#DrumpfGrift Season 2
Box up your stuff, log off and turn off the lights.
#Resist
The oblivious asshole completely misses the irony of his own words.
“Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward.”
Nothing to see here.
Step one is to make it easier to fire people, then make examples out of anyone who dissents, the rest will fall in line and those who are fired will be replaced with “loyalists”
Yet the Senate is confirming unqualified people.
Translation: We're expanding the parts of the government that carry guns. No reason.
Now we know how they view anyone outside their clubhouse
The executive level fucked that initiative up.
Elon musk isn’t worried about his job security right now. Absolutely fucking despicable but I expect nothing less from this illegal regime. 🥴🗣️💙🔊
My friends with the DoD are emboldened to stay and resist.
Stay safe out there!
Fuck that. We fight back now!!!!! Or just get rounded up into concentration camps if you prefer.
I would not trust this. I would not trust HIM. There will be more to this than what is in this email, trust and believe.
rump is the anti christ
If at all possible, get out now. Protect yourself & your family.
USA clock running down very quickly
They are looking to post fake news headlines cheering how many needless positions they cut when the reality is many agencies are understaffed. Not a brain amongst them!