Trump administration offers roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign
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An email went out to the federal workforce Tuesday evening, with a subject line that had ties to Elon Musk.
  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    It’s not actually a buyout. It’s a promise to pay them exactly how much they would make to work for 6 more months and then quit. But they can’t quit before then. Also they need to let them know by next week. Also also, there will be no additional severance pay.

  • Spazz@lemmynsfw.com
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    6 days ago

    Break it, then claim it’s not working and only you can fix it, straight out of the fascist playbook

  • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    So what happens when every employee in the IRS takes the offer, quits immediately and goes home?

  • nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Important information sharing from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12627783 !

    Someone on reddit pointed out there’s an OPM rule that makes max payout at something like $25k. Let me go dig it up real quick.

    Because that means a lot of people wouldn’t get paid the full amount and Trump is absolutely the kind of person who would use shit like that as an excuse to not keep paying out. I wouldn’t trust this deal because based on stuff like this it doesn’t pass the sniff test.

    Apologies for (slight retch) a reddit link:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ice9ml/trump_administration_offering_buyouts_to_nearly/m9pya4z/

    zedextol:

    Per OPM, the federal government can’t legally pay more than $25k, pre-tax. This is another scam. Trump is the literal master of grift. You think he’s gonna make good on this debt after years of not paying his bills?

    Edit: Source below

    https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/voluntary-separation-incentive-payments/

  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It’s a good thing this guy always pays his debts otherwise some might think this is a dirt trick.

  • quafeinum@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Is this president wankpanzer firing people that he will regret to have fired and then rehire them again, again?!

  • MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    This kind of stupid blanket approach tells you that we have idiots running this country who have no idea what these workers are actually doing, nor what the impact will be of them resigning on the well being and national security of the country.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    This is going to save so much money guys. Nevermind that they’ll likely end up rehiring most of these folks at higher rates when they realize they don’t know the code for the fax machine.

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      Says who? Under the US legal system, anything is legal if the SCOTUS agrees with it. If Trump declared himself Führer tomorrow they’d validate that as constitutional. At this point suing the US government for its blatantly unconstitutional acts is merely a delaying tactic.

      Americans must stop twiddling their thumbs while expecting Trump’s DoJ/SCOTUS/congress to work for the American people and start resisting because the key institutions have already fallen to fascism.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        I mean it’s a somewhat rhetorical question. I think the extant legal doctrine the US exists under is effectively “whatever power decides” is legal.

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          6 days ago

          “whatever power decides” is legal

          Not true. When Biden decided to cancel student debt, the court system said “no”. The SCOTUS isn’t subservient to “power” in general, it’s subservient to powerful fascists. Big difference. Trump has spent a decade following the Nazi playbook and acquiring complete personal control over all branches of government and people don’t seem to have fully realized that yet. That’s why things are way worse this time around. When he started his first term the SCOTUS was conservative and corrupt but not yet fascist. This time it’s fully loyalist. In case you forgot, he also had already placed a bunch of loyalists in key judicial roles that Biden didn’t fire.

          He’s made sure the law won’t stop him, and now he’s purging his enemies to make sure the institutions won’t resist his unlawful orders. It’s not a “both sides” issue, it’s not even just a “the rich are winning” issue. They might get the green light to deport every union leader, but they’ll be ruling over a kingdom of ashes and blood by the time this is over. Assuming the billionaires aren’t caught up in the purge; plenty of that in autocratic regimes, oligarchs infighting is a great way to ensure loyalty because that makes them incapable of organizing to stage a coup.

  • DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I’m guessing most Federal workers aren’t stupid enough to believe Trump would actually pay the buyout amount. Especially after Presidential “advisor” Elon failed to pay Twitter severance.

  • Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Putin’s (very) useful idiot is now in the process of completing his work destroying the US federal government. Hope state governments can pick up the slack, because they’ll have to.

    EDIT: And, surprise! Red states are more dependent on federal funding than blue states are.