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It's not actually a buyout. It's a promise to pay them exactly how much they would make to work for 6 more months and then quit. But they can't quit before then. Also they need to let them know by next week. Also also, there will be no additional severance pay.
Break it, then claim it's not working and only you can fix it, straight out of the fascist playbook
So what happens when every employee in the IRS takes the offer, quits immediately and goes home?
They will not pay or it will be pennies on the dollar of their salary. This is some political theater
True, but my point was directed more towards "where will the Gub be getting its money from?"
Rich people like raiding government coffers because there's lots of free money there.
They are going to be stuck rehiring people that resign as consultants because they won't have the people to run the legally required programs in place.
It will end up costing more money for the government.
I have little hope that the people that actually vote will even remember how fucked all this is two years from now.
They’ll require that consultants are hired through a company owned by a Trump subsidiary and pocket a percentage of the pay.
this one gets it. This is exactly how Viktor Orban's system works.
They'll also ensure those who get hired, share the maga viewpoints.
or that they are too afraid to voice their anti maga viewpoints
I dunno, how does 8 months pay sound more appealing than a pension?
Most federal civilian employees are now on a 401(k) equivalent. Air Traffic likes to mention how they are one of the ones left with a pension, but clearly, nothing is guaranteed.
We get both. A 401k equivalent called TSP (Thrift Savings Plan) and FERS. People hired after a certain year ( i wanna say 2011 or 2013) pay substantially more into FERS than people hired before (less than 1% vs 4.3% of pay). I don't expect either to pay out in my lifetime tbh.
TSP is also unique in that you can take a loan from it directly, not using it as colateral. Any interest paid goes right back into your TSP.
This is also an option if jumping ship:
Neither of those are unique from a majority of 401(k) plans in the U.S - taking out a loan against it included. You'll still take a sizeable tax hit on an early distribution from any retirement plan - TSP included. You should be able to do a direct rollover to any active 401(k), 403(b), or IRA penalty free. I worked in the government for 5 years, and a financial planning firm for just about 2.
I’m pretty sure the idea is to get rid of dissenters in an easy and legal way, while keeping those like-minded individuals who will toe the line.
I think the idea is to scare dissenters into quitting, because otherwise their position may get downsized otherwise and they lose out on any benefits and pension.
"legally required programs"? What law? Show me where that matters. Who will enforce such laws when all of the people running these programs are gone?
I know why Trump appeals to so many people. He's the politician/business who acknowledged that rules are made up by fallible humans and can be re-written. The problem is, when we have similar politicians on the left who try to break the system for the working class the liberals agree that it's terrible in the same way that they agree that trump is terrible, but the oligarchs don't see an avenue for profit and so they fight against them as well.
It's as simple as you need people to actually enforce laws and carry out programs laid out by Congress.
I don't think you understand how laws work. The laws I work to to support were promulgated in the 1970s after rivers were lighting on fire.
They are complicated to enforce because the companies that cause environmental harm can afford high powered attorneys and lobbyists to prevent them from being enforced.
There is no one working on behalf of the american people to try to meet the intent of many of these laws we rely on - such as those to keep our environment, air we breathe, water we drink, relatively safe. Other than those in the government that have the authority to do so.
I don't know how all of the other various agencies work specifically, but that's generally what people are doing in the government
You don't seem to understand this so you don't value it. I think once it gets more fucked up, you will. This isn't a liberal or conservative thing. The laws I work with were put on the books by Nixon. This is a rich stealing from you issue. Not left/right.
But maybe you are just troll, probably.
Lol, "rehiring". What if I told you that he doesn't intend to replace them?
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Someone on reddit pointed out there’s an OPM rule that makes max payout at something like $25k. Let me go dig it up real quick.
Because that means a lot of people wouldn’t get paid the full amount and Trump is absolutely the kind of person who would use shit like that as an excuse to not keep paying out. I wouldn’t trust this deal because based on stuff like this it doesn’t pass the sniff test.
Apologies for (slight retch) a reddit link:
zedextol:
Per OPM, the federal government can’t legally pay more than $25k, pre-tax. This is another scam. Trump is the literal master of grift. You think he’s gonna make good on this debt after years of not paying his bills?
Edit: Source below
It's a good thing this guy always pays his debts otherwise some might think this is a dirt trick.
Fuck up the system enough to make it fail.
Reinstall what you need with only Party loyalists.
Now you control the system.
Putin's (very) useful idiot is now in the process of completing his work destroying the US federal government. Hope state governments can pick up the slack, because they'll have to.
EDIT: And, surprise! Red states are more dependent on federal funding than blue states are.
He wants to destroy the European Union, so it's not surprising he wants to destroy American Union as well.
I'm guessing most Federal workers aren't stupid enough to believe Trump would actually pay the buyout amount. Especially after Presidential "advisor" Elon failed to pay Twitter severance.
A Trump never pays his debts
Chaos is not a pit. Chaos is a ladder.
As a federal employee, you have a very optimistic view of most federal employees. Theres a sizeable number that will happily slob the knob if the orange one told them to.
This is going to save so much money guys. Nevermind that they'll likely end up rehiring most of these folks at higher rates when they realize they don't know the code for the fax machine.
Or when they have to fix the Fortran program that runs the whole Navy or something.
Watch them word it poorly and accidentally release every active duty service member from their contracts.
Id probably go the px and get new tags made with the female (F) identifier since we've all be declared female.
This doesn't seem in any way legal
Says who? Under the US legal system, anything is legal if the SCOTUS agrees with it. If Trump declared himself Führer tomorrow they'd validate that as constitutional. At this point suing the US government for its blatantly unconstitutional acts is merely a delaying tactic.
Americans must stop twiddling their thumbs while expecting Trump's DoJ/SCOTUS/congress to work for the American people and start resisting because the key institutions have already fallen to fascism.
It is if you sign
Just going to leave this here
https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrategicServicesProvisional/page/n14/mode/1up
DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE
And failing that I just dropped this totally by accident and am already walking away…
https://archive.org/details/tm-21-210-improvised-munitions-handbook-1969-department-of-the-army
This kind of stupid blanket approach tells you that we have idiots running this country who have no idea what these workers are actually doing, nor what the impact will be of them resigning on the well being and national security of the country.
Is this president wankpanzer firing people that he will regret to have fired and then rehire them again, again?!