Summary
Trump reversed his directive to fire thousands of probationary (newly-hired) federal employees after a judge ruled the mass terminations were likely illegal.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) clarified that agencies are not required to comply with previous instructions to fire employees who have held their jobs for a year or less. Instead, agencies have until September 13 to develop their own staffing reduction plans.
Some agencies, like the National Science Foundation (NSF), are now rehiring previously fired employees.
Federal labor unions have sued, arguing the firings violated procedural rules and congressional authority. The administration’s sudden reversal still leaves uncertainty about affected workers’ status.
Imagine the loss in productivity from having so many people fired & quickly re-hired. Not just from those people; but the HR & administrative effort; the re-org of responsibilities among the other employees; and the nonsense time it probably took up in so many “mandatory departmental meetings” discussing what was happening…
No doubt. I recently left corporate America (giant global orgs) after almost 30 years. I was involved in these bullshit fire drills with increasing frequency through most of my career. Without fail, they provide short term illusion of savings at the expense of higher long term costs and pain. These people always forget that a lot of smart people put a lot of effort into the existing systems, orgs, etc.
Not to mention every ladder-climbing prick who changes positions in those orgs’ mid to upper levels has to make some big splash in their new role, so they can scheme their way to the next one. AKA each of these decision-making dickheads are incentivized to blow shit up with each new role, and with the express intention of not being there when the chickens come to roost. Seen it quite often, firsthand.
Such an idiotic way to run the biggest coordinations of human effort on the planet, but HEY what the fuck do I know? Stolid, predictable leadership with a commitment to improving outcomes for all stakeholders? Wouldn’t that mean shareholders would do a little less well? Those gaudy yachts and mansions don’t buy themselves…
Don’t get me started LOL! Yeah, let alone all of the mental health issues caused by the continued uncertainty. I estimated my last company lost almost 10,000 YEARS of IT/company experience in just TWO years of such churn with new leaders brought in from the outside.
God DAMN, when your executive leadership sounds like part of some biblical scourge lol
“…and asunder shall be cast 10,000 seasons of thy most learned men, and…”
It felt like it at the time. ChatGPT came out during the height of it. So, I was able to draft some great versions of the antics as if they were episodes of The Office.
Ah yes typical Government Efficiency
Let’s be very clear: this is extremely atypical. There is nothing even slightly normal about it.
not very… what’s the word?
oh yea: efficient.
At my site in the VA we lost a essential employee who we probably won’t get back.
And we were also forced into a hiring freeze at the start of the year so I hope they see this and try to come back, because we won’t be able to hire someone else to replace them.
This is partof the point
So… funny story (well not funny, horrible).
So a friend of mine recently (within the past 3 years) was motivated to go back to school and get their degree in conservation biology. They had been a chef for a while and were sick of it. I pushed them to quit their job and get back into it, and they did.
They ended up getting an internship with a federal department, and are still technically a probationary employee (not career or term). They are still in school but the work was what they wanted to be doing, so they went for it.
So it turns out, almost all the career and term staff have now been let go. But they, as a probationary employee, are still there. Like somehow they were missed or forgotten. So now, somehow, they are in charge or at least responsible… for almost everything?
Its the smokey the bear meme about “only you; no seriously its just you now” in real life.
So it turns out, almost all the career and term staff have now been let go. But they, as a probationary employee, are still there. Like somehow they were missed or forgotten. So now, somehow, they are in charge or at least responsible… for almost everything?
His last co-worker as they walked out the door:
Clearly a surgical strike, just using medical knowledge from the paleolithic
Congrats to them on the meteoric career advancement, I guess? 😬
Probably because he hasn’t tried to conserve anything yet. I hear Republicans hate that.
The uncertainty is by Design
Pussy
Is this the infamous flip-flopping that Republicans constantly accuse Democratic leaders of? In the case of Democrats it’s quite often a change in policy because of new information or new conditions. But it shouldn’t be happening over a span of days, the hell are y’all doing in DC you idiots?
It’s such bullshit that all this is at the whim of one brain-damaged grandpa.
I swear to God he’s a BattleTech villain
I can come up with no other plausible explanation for this level of incompetence
plausible explanation for this level of incompetence
Competence is irrelevant. He’s not here to “govern effectively”, he’s here to dismantle the U.S. and its allies and turn them into vassal states for the CCP, Putin Regime, the House of Saud, and any other authoritarian who wants in on the action.
I’d say that’s accurate yeah
Wait wait wait! Innersphere or Clan? Not Comstar…
Ah! The Word of Blake!
All Word of Blake factions agreed on a few points. They decried ComStar and its members as heretics for defying the ancient doctrines claimed to be in the writings of Jerome Blake. They denounced as forgeries the recently discovered writings of Blake and mourned ComStar as being destroyed from within, claiming that salvation was only possible by fleeing from ComStar’s “corrupted vision” and joining the Word of Blake.
I feel Word of Blake could work for the Trumpers but part of them seem similar to Katherine Steiner-Davion sycophants.
As an aside, I always preferred House Davion in the Inner Sphere, however my first loves were the Warden Wolves and the Ghost Bears. Honorable mention to the Nova Cats and a hale shout-out to The Wolf’s Dragoons.
This constant “asking the crowd if he is doing a dumb” kind of feels like on idiocracy, during monday night rehabilitation when the executioner is at first seemingly pandering to the crowd, and then you start to realise he actually needs their help to find Not Sure.
At the courts still hold some power as a check and balance.
He wouldn’t be doing this otherwise.
Oh ho ho, is the fuhrer getting self conscious or is there a rift between the potus and doge?
