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I received 3 interesting emails at work today.

Email #1: From our new HR overlords to let us know that we need to make sure all our information is up to date and inform us about the upcoming Reduction in Force (RIF) that is going occur as a result of the orders from DOGE. The RIF proposal isn't available yet, but this is the first acknowledgement about it that is coming from official channels. Everything I knew about the RIF already was from articles online.

Email #2: About 90 minutes later we get another email telling us that we are required to sign a new telework agreement. They are refusing to acknowledge our very legal telework agreement from December and are now they are forcing us to sign a new agreement and to do it immediately. We had less than an hour in which to respond.

This second one is particularly suspicious because the terms of the new agreement effectively make it a NON telework agreement. Presumably they will point to it and say "I know we aren't supposed to be allowed to ignore that December agreement, but look, they willingly signed this shiny new one that says they don't get to telework!".

The timing meant that we had next to no time to reach out to the union or get their official position on how to respond. The quick response we got from the union was very half hearted and indicated that it would be our own personal decision if we wanted to sign this new telework agreement or not. They provided us some with language to include if we decided to sign.

I believe the majority of my unit decided not to sign it. If I hadn't just purchased my house 3 weeks ago I might have had the courage to join them, but instead I elected to sign the new agreement and I included the recommended paragraph from the union. It effectively states that I object to being forced to sign this agreement when I have a perfectly valid agreement from 3 months ago and that if they have to recognize the December agreement it should take priority over my newly signed one. Still, as a 1-2 punch the threat of the upcoming RIF followed by the telework paperwork demand was a very effective way to scare me into signing something I definitely did not want to and otherwise might not have signed.

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And Email #3? This one came in 15 minutes after my shift had ended and it was to remind us that today is "Employee Appreciate Day". Well they can fuck right off with that, lol.