Elon already at work
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/trump-federal-workers-quit-severance
Discussion
The lazy ones who have nothing to give (and know it) will stay. The best ones will take the money and find a new job. They can do it because they know they have valuable skills.
True, so this could be quite counterproductive
I dunno … long term govt employees won’t be too eager job searching imo.
Exactly, the long term lazy government worker knows they are lazy and out of touch. They have no desire to improve so they stay working in government jobs and never accept the resignation package.
But don't think all of them are like that. There is that odd one out there (likely young and new) who works there and does all the work of the others. He is hungry for an opportunity. These people will resign and bet on themself by starting a company etc.
I am not suggesting an alternative. I do not have a solution. (Other than just firing everyone and) Just pointing out what could happen.
Yes, we will see which companies will then provide missing services in order to understand who will really benefit from it.
asked Grok what consequences this could have. Got a critical response scrolling out and at some moment it just crashed 💥
I think buyout is euphemism for shit canned.
They had to give a step-by-step on how to reply to the email; these folks are almost certainly unhirable in the 21st century 🤣
"Employees who wish to resign were told: "1) Select "Reply" to this email. You must reply from your government account. A reply from an account other than your .gov or .mil account will not be accepted. 2)Type the word "Resign" into the body of this reply email. Hit "Send.""
Yeah that was weird
When i saw this quote, i stopped reading. I don’t have enough time to read bias BS. “The big picture: The memo is just the latest step in the White House's unprecedented move to push career federal workers out of their jobs, and, observers say, replace them with loyalists — a return to a patronage system that federal law sought to banish more than a century ago.”