Trump is about to offer all federal employees a buyout to quit

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News and the admin is already confirming it.

I already got a preliminary email.

There's a very high chance you won't have a federal government at the end of these four years. He's running Project 2025 to the letter. They really want to get rid of the government.

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Are you going to take the buyout?
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Laughable, especially considering Trump's record on paying his dues.

Not to mention the questionable value of the American dollar in a few years

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I, of course, know what this means, but explain it for those who don't.
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I have a couple friends with government jobs, I wonder how much the buyout will be for, if it extends to them, and if they'll take it. They're all incredibly pissed that Trump is back in office.
How much? The last number I heard was laughably low.

I won't be taking the offer unless it was a million dollars or something. Of course it won't be anywhere near that.
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I don't think that he'd pay a buy-out. He'd just fire everyone.
He did it to those working at home. And, this also seems insane. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-offering-buyouts-to-government-workers-unwilling-to-return-to-office/

Its not EVERYONE but...not quite this level of insanity...
No, I don't intend to take it. My work is important and pays well. My union is going to sue to block return to office. I'm the person relaying union information and admin news to my coworkers.

I intend to stay and do all of my jobs to the fullest.
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When Reagan tried it and when USPS tried it more recently, it was too low to make a difference.
That sounds incredibly illegal but as has been repeatedly demonstrated this month the law does not apply to rich people and even less the republicans
Why not go all in?
I work in state government at a state run liquor store. I know if I was ultimately governed by Musk and the Heritage Foundation I wouldn't have a job, like, yesterday.

These are tough times made even tougher as they are self inflicted. But I think staying is the best course. Let them make the first move and see how it goes.
So after all those Project 2025 people told us how everything was all planned and ready to roll out, Donnie started throwing curve balls right away and fucked all that up.
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The White House expects up to 10% of federal employees to quit in a buyout program meant to end work-from-home practices, senior administration officials told CBS News.
A government-wide email President Trump's aides planned to send Tuesday will say employees have about a week to decide whether to participate in a "deferred resignation program." It was to begin Tuesday for all federal employees and end Feb. 6.
Only about 6% of federal employees work full-time in office, administration officials said.
"If you resign under this program, 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 (or earlier if you choose to accelerate your resignation for any reason)," the emails states.

I think they'll get less than the 10% expected to quit. Those jobs are cushy and pay the bills despite who's in charge. People don't give up those pensions easy either, even if they're miserable.
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SO basicly get rid of most of the goverement and replace what little is left with his minions?
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legendary_zell posted...
He's running Project 2025 to the letter.
The thing he said he had no knowledge about? You mean he lied? Oh heavens, say it isnt so!!!

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Oh it's an anti work from home thing. Gross. Let people work from home if they want to, it really didn't lower productivity at all
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Great can they buy out my military contract too?
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My wife can't afford to take it. Mostly for healthcare reasons. But also pension. And she can retire in 8 years. Though I'm not even sure it'll apply to her since she is uniformed service.

I'll have to talk to her she hasn't heard anything about it yet. But her work day ends at 4:30.
Well this will be fiscally responsible. Oh wait not it won't be
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If you thought the federal government was already unreliable, slow, and incompetent, wait until you see Trump's version.
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They are trying to install all the project 2025 shit and rid of the normal people running our government.

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I wonder if the buyout is gonna be more or less expensive than the bullet that the people who don't take it get.

Gotta get 100% stooges.
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A decent buyout is generally somewhere around 12 -14 months of salary.

But even though hes spending other peoples money, Trumps a cheapskate who will fuck this up too.

Really he should be emphasizing his main point; that he intends to make their lives hell so take the money.
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DrizztLink posted...
I wonder if the buyout is gonna be more or less expensive than the bullet that the people who don't take it get.

Gotta get 100% stooges.
This. Trump only wants yes men, not competent workers. Even their evil shit is going to be stupidly incompetent.
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literally turning into the philippines. creating a small, weak government, with protectionist policies that hurt regular people and protect oligarchs. only thing missing is needing to bribe someone at every level of government for something as simple as a new driver's license.
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only thing missing is needing to bribe someone at every level of government for something as simple as a new driver's license.
Give it three weeks.
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Great journalism from cbs parroting the false stat about 6% of federal employees working full time in the office without going through the effort to note that it is false, so all the morons who get their news in small fragments will believe it as well

Sen. Joni Ernst claims only 6% of federal employees report to an office, but an August report from the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) contradicts this. According to an OMB report from August 2024, 10% of federal employees work fully remotely and 54% worked fully on-site because their jobs required in-person presence.
There are 2.28 million federal government employees, OMB says.

A link to that report is provided in the link below, can't direct link it of course since the whitehouse.gov site purged it along with the page for the Constitution

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/08/teleworking-feds-are-spending-60-their-time-working-person-omb-says/398779/

A clown show all around
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MacadamianNut3 posted...
Great journalism from cbs parroting the false stat about 6% of federal employees working full time in the office without going through the effort to note that it is false, so all the morons who get their news in small fragments will believe it as well
Yeah, bunch of bastards at CBS. That isn't even close to true as your link says.
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Well my wife has seen the email.

Things sound pretty bad.

Talks about 4 pillars of standards that all federal workers must be held up to. One of them being RTO, another "streamlined" government. Basically goes on to say many agencies will be reduced in size or eliminated and how it may cause many offices to close down, therefore many federal workers may need to be relocated. Then it offers the buy out, and says those who choose to stay do not have assurances that their position or agency will not be eliminated.

Fucking scary shit guys. We're already freaking out my wife won't have space in the nearest office, and that we will have to relocate to Maryland where her actual duty station is. Our biggest concern is health insurance, cuz we have a kid with a very rare and dangerous congenital disease. What a stressful couple of weeks it's been.
Ar0ge posted...
Well my wife has seen the email.

Things sound pretty bad.

Talks about 4 pillars of standards that all federal workers must be held up to. One of them being RTO, another "streamlined" government. Basically goes on to say many agencies will be reduced in size or eliminated and how it may cause many offices to close down, therefore many federal workers may need to be relocated. Then it offers the buy out, and says those who choose to stay do not have assurances that their position or agency will not be eliminated.

Fucking scary shit guys. We're already freaking out my wife won't have space in the nearest office, and that we will have to relocate to Maryland where her actual duty station is. Our biggest concern is health insurance, cuz we have a kid with a very rare and dangerous congenital disease. What a stressful couple of weeks it's been.
Fuck, I despise Trump and his ghouls. Federal workers don't deserve this. The only bright side is I work in Defense, so I know my job isn't going anywhere. I feel so bad for people working in other agencies, though.

I hope you and your wife are able to get through this.
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Ar0ge posted...
Well my wife has seen the email.

Things sound pretty bad.

Talks about 4 pillars of standards that all federal workers must be held up to. One of them being RTO, another "streamlined" government. Basically goes on to say many agencies will be reduced in size or eliminated and how it may cause many offices to close down, therefore many federal workers may need to be relocated. Then it offers the buy out, and says those who choose to stay do not have assurances that their position or agency will not be eliminated.

Fucking scary shit guys.
That is how they get you.

The other important part about a buyout is its sort of on a clock with you being in the dark about the future.

Basically if youre retiring in the next five years take it.

Otherwise be cool and wait for the job openings that are about to happen in a few months. Its all just a scam intended to clear out the weak.
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divot1338 posted...
That is how they get you.

The other important part about a buyout is its sort of on a clock with you being in the dark about the future.

Basically if youre retiring in the next five years take it.

Otherwise be cool and wait for the job openings that are about to happen in a few months. Its all just a scam intended to clear out the weak.

She retires in 8 years. So yea... She has no intention of leaving. Health insurance and the pension is really important. But yea she's already been talking about looking for other positions soon. Not a bad idea to see what jobs will be opening up.
I just got it. It's not even a buyout. It's just an "offer" of not having to return to the the office in exchange for committing yourself to resigning immediately. We continue to get paid because we still have to work. There's no pay for not working like a true separation agreement or buyout. It's a total scam.
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He can go fuck himself. If you're remote, don't return to office and don't take this bullshit. Lots of lawsuits on the way I imagine.
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legendary_zell posted...
I just got it. It's not even a buyout. It's just an "offer" of not having to return to the the office in exchange for committing yourself to resigning immediately. We continue to get paid because we still have to work. There's no pay for not working like a true separation agreement or buyout. It's a total scam.

Yea I understand that. However, there's an email sent to the heads of departments and agencies for guidance, and it suggests those who resign be placed on admin leave until the September date.

nocturnal_traveler posted...
If you thought the federal government was already unreliable, slow, and incompetent, wait until you see Trump's version.
That's a feature, not a bug.

The standard Republican playbook is:
1) Campaign on government being ineffective, inefficient, and generally awful and promise to "streamline" things.
2) Once in power, deliberately sabotage government agencies to make them as ineffective, inefficient, and generally awful as possible.
3) When the next election rolls around, return to step 1.

And it works, because it takes a lot more time and effort to build something up than tear it down. The Republicans can destroy something in four years that will take decades to build back.
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Non-American here, is a buyout the same as VSS (voluntary separation scheme)?
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I thought he was offering buyouts to people who don't want to work in his administration
Less is more. Everything you want, isn't everything you need.
So what is this leading up to?

Is he gonna try to privatize everything so he can profit from it?
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It's worth mentioning that this email came from the same dubious OPM address as the two recent please-respond-if-you-are-a-Fed broadcasts. The one mentioned here:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5111199-federal-employees-sue-opm-email/

Is someone scamming people?
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It's worth mentioning that this email came from the same dubious OPM address as the two recent please-respond-if-you-are-a-Fed broadcasts. The one mentioned here:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5111199-federal-employees-sue-opm-email/

it's also worth noting that the email is, verbatim, the email sent to twitter employees when musk bought twitter.

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ConfusedTorchic posted...
it's also worth noting that the email is, verbatim, the email sent to twitter employees when musk bought twitter.

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