Summary
Elon Musk and his allies have reportedly taken control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and bypassed officials to send a mass resignation email to over 2.3 million federal employees.
The email, titled “Fork in the Road,” offers buyouts to those who voluntarily resign, mirroring a similar approach Musk used at Twitter.
Musk has placed close associates in leadership positions at OPM, raising concerns over his growing influence in Trump’s administration.
Federal employees remain skeptical about the buyout’s legitimacy.
He didn’t seize shit…
They made up an email address, claimed it was OPM, then spent an afternoon pretending to be official between that and the fork in the road email.
Apparently from metadata, it’s not even a real email for OPM, it’s being spoofed.
The whole thing is an absolute shit show.
But on the upside all it seems to be doing is delaying the retirements of everyone who was already planning on leaving when trump came back.
They have no idea what a bureaucrat will put up with out of spite, and a large amount of Feds didn’t like their loyalty called into question by some ai slop pretending to be from a federal agency.
Edit:
They sent another last night too, a “FAQ” talking about how you’ll get paid till the end of the fiscal year…
Like government employees aren’t fucking aware we’re on a continuing resolution… There’s zero money to offer here, and a “FAQ” isn’t binding.
That’s not even getting I to how a couple agencies are saying if anyone takes it, they lose the position for good.
Like a 10 person office, if 2 take it, it’s now permanently an 8 person office.
It’s an obvious trick. And all it’s doing is galvanizing the federal workforce
Edit 2:
And if you’re not up to speed, the emails are 100% “written” by the 19 year old using chatbots.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-hires-trump-office-personnel-183345778.html
Didn’t Musk offer the same thing to Twitter employees when he bought it, and then never paid them the leave money
I have read there are ongoing court cases about Twitter not paying the people that resigned.
Unfortunately all other agencies seem to be going along with it. DOE, said they will honor all the terms…
Good. Fuckem. As a former federal employee myself, I can say with confidence that I have never worked with a more worthless, self serving bunch of inept check collectors than I have trying to deal with federal employees from the inside. HR is completely ineffectual. Administration has its head so far up its own ass they can see teeth. IT is constantly isolated, discouraged, and blamed for inefficiency they can do nothing about. I was just a dumb dumb welder and even I was off put by how chaotic every day ended up being due to miscommunication and ineptitude. Unpaid OT, meal break violations, employee rights violations, its all there every day and nobody cares. When I spoke up about my experience, I was shitcanned for not shutting up and taking my lumps. When I went to the union, I was told they’re too poor to actually make waves. I hope every federal employee has a very nice get fucked for the rest of their careers in the government.
I can sense you’re a trustworthy person and that your story is highly credible.
Even if someone showed me the video evidence of you sexually harassing female employees, I wouldn’t believe it.
I will die on the hill that you we’re fired for standing up for your rights and righteousness, and not because you kept showing up for work late or repeatedly talking loudly about your breastfeeding fetish.
It’s okay to project. It’s hard to stand up for yourself, so why not take it out on the people who have the strength to do what you can’t? It’s not like it’ll actually hurt them, and you’ll feel better for taking a break off mama’s teat. Good for you.
Musk needs to go
Here’s the problem with this. Employees who take voluntary layoffs often have a lot of confidence in their ability to find new work. They believe in their skills and aren’t worried about landing another job. On the other hand, those who stay might be less motivated and less sure about their chances in the job market. They might feel uncertain about being hired elsewhere, which can lead to feeling stuck and less satisfied with their job. This creates a situation where the more confident and capable employees are the ones who are more likely to leave, while those who stay might be more cautious or less optimistic about their career options.
So what you end up doing is scraping the cream from the top and leaving the less talented. In the business world this is a good way to boost short term profits but what you’re left with often goes bankrupt. It’s happened multiple times in the tech world.
You see, your mistake was thinking that they want to make things better and are just misguided. The point is to gut the government and make it bad.
I don’t even think that’s the complete end goal. I think they want a bunch of people either completely loyal and will do whatever they ask or completely fearful and act the exact same way.
This happened like a week ago.
