Bloomberg Law reposted this
The biggest thing worth remembering about the “deferred resignation” offers that went out to most federal employees on Tuesday is that subject line, “Fork in the Road,” was, word for word, the one that Elon Musk sent around to Twitter employees before wiping out most of its workforce. Read Bernie Kohn’s Elevated Take: https://lnkd.in/eQpYku5E
Musk's Words Worth Revisiting for Feds Pondering Offer to Leave
It is long past time to cut the government to the bone. Private sector employees get laid off all the time. These people should resign and learn to code.
Where's the severance pay coming from? Will departments function after mass firings, or better to look at cost-benefit from a global perspective?
Uh... and?
You mean stating the obvious at a corporation needing what we used to call "right sizing", isn't the same in government? It seems politicos in government don't understand what an audit is, and can't seem to get it thru their mind that "stop and review the books", means exactly that. If an audit determines there is fluff and unnecessary fat, the American people have voted overwhelmingly to excise swiftly and get the United States back on track to serve citizens and national interests, not the grift and largess of a wasteful bureaucracy. Bloomberg needs a new perspective....
As someone married to a fed employee who works for one of the agencies that is in Musk’s crosshairs, taking the “fork” is the only shot at any coverage/protection given that Musk and the Orange Man have illeagally and unconstitutionally decided to destroy the agency. They pretty much threatened to fire anyone who doesn’t take the “fork.” BTW - if this was all about auditing programs, they would have brought in an army of auditors instead of coders. Don’t be fooled about what they are really doing. IJS
My fork is bent, so the answer is not on my watch! NO!
And?
What's your point?
Let’s be happy a business manager is doing this… The government would just cut funding and shut it down. After all of these people worked from home with secondary jobs and basically used stolen tax revenue to fund their lifestyle. We are still giving them eight months pay, how many people right now would love to start a new business and not have to worry about revenue or more than half a year. Seems like there is a lot more to be grateful for than anything else
PSM I, SAMC, SSM, POPM “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way”. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
1moI fear that Musk can't really be trusted in this situation. As far as what I have read, Musk has no authority or congressional approval to offer people who resign anything. Keep in mind this was the result of the same type of thing at Twitter: "Twitter's severance plan called for employees who stayed on after the buyout to receive two or six months of pay, plus one week of pay for each year of employment, if they were laid off. The plaintiffs Courtney McMillian, who oversaw Twitter's compensation and benefits, and Ronald Cooper, an operations manager, said Twitter instead offered fired employees just one month of pay as severance, with no benefits." - Source Routers.