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.
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?
The uncertainty is by Design
Gaslighting. Now when feds complain about loosing their jobs, trumpets will say they’re spreading fake news. Also, I know some feds who are also trumpets. Watching their brain explode isn’t worth the apocalypse.
It’s such bullshit that all this is at the whim of one brain-damaged grandpa.
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…
not very… what’s the word?
oh yea: efficient.
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.
I swear CRPGs need to be made mandatory for corporate leadership. You will respect the long term 0.05 increase to damage every level you motherfuckers.
Joking aside I do think there should be a dedicated gremlin who’s job is to beat corporate dipshits with a stick everytime they try to pull short term fuckery. Rome wasn’t built in a day, it was built in generations and what do ya know it lasted over two thousand fucking years.
the top level doesn’t care. our suffering is their joy. they know they must be rich because they are insulated from the problems they cause us
yes, that is why we need to remember that billions of lambs can easily take on millions of lions. our problem continues to be lambs that want to fight lambs in the hope that they may someday join the lions. so, we all continue to be hunted.
Lamb? I, sir, am a grown up ram. I will fight anything.
Perfect! How about we fight those lions then?
Plus the morale kick. “Oh yeah, we fired you a couple weeks ago without making too much of a fuss… but yeah, now get back to work!”
Ah yes typical Government Efficiency
Let’s be very clear: this is extremely atypical. There is nothing even slightly normal about it.
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.
That sounds super inefficient. Someone should create a taskforce to look into that inefficiency.
No no no.
First you make a meeting to discuss the need for a taskforce.
Then a meeting to discuss the potential budget of the task force.
Then a meeting to select the members of the task force.
And so on until you don’t even need the task force anymore.
Problem solved.
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:
Congrats to them on the meteoric career advancement, I guess? 😬
Clearly a surgical strike, just using medical knowledge from the paleolithic
Probably because he hasn’t tried to conserve anything yet. I hear Republicans hate that.
Some agencies, like the National Science Foundation (NSF), are now rehiring previously fired employees.
Trump’s power derives from the fact that he is running an organization that consists of three million people. He has started off his second term by ensuring that a not inconsiderable number of these have a grudge against him, and are now back where they were. Possibly not the move most-likely to ensure that his agenda is effectively-enacted.
Instead, agencies have until September 13 to develop their own staffing reduction plans.
That’s probably more-reasonable simply from an organizational standpoint. That being said, that’s about half the distance until midterms, at which point the Democrats might take the House. If they do, they are probably going to punch holes in attempts to mass-fire federal employees. Plus, if they can take actions that trigger re-hirings, if someone is laid off for a brief period of time, even a layoff for a few months may not last. Historically, the party of the President usually does poorly in midterms.
There’s a window of time that Trump has to really produce a lasting effect, where he can blow away a big chunk of the federal government and it would be hard to reconstitute it, and I think that this has probably caused it to significantly shrink.
Also, usually you don’t, as a President, want to take unpopular actions right before elections. Better to do them immediately afterwards, as he is here.
Basically, if the bureaucracy can manage to stall for the better part of a year on top of this, I suspect that Trump’s going to have difficulty slicing a lot of the Executive Branch away permanently.
Thanks for the optimism. I sure hope you’re right, this does feel at least plausible to me.
Jesus Christ what a fucken shitshow
I guess he’s finally running the country like a Trump business, I just don’t get why the yukyuks think it’s a good idea
legitimately the apprentice convinced them he’s a business genius even though that was all manufactured, and the true trump is a nepobaby shitstain who can’t outperform an index fund. he’s always gambling, always losing, and always having someone bail him out. first it was daddy, then the bank, then the mob, then the russian federation, and now it’s us, the poor
I never understood why people liked that (shit) show. I tried watching it once and couldn’t stand listening to his fucking stupidity.
The only one I watched was the one with Gene Simmons. The “goal” was to make I think like $5000 by running a hotdog stand. So Gene, a real businessman, sold one hotdog with his signature to a fan. At the end of the episode Trump fired him. Because of some bullshit reason. I think it was because Trump didn’t like that Gene was more popular than he was and knew how to do marketing.
I grew up watching it. In the era of linear TV, even with cable we had maaaybe 2 or 3 other legitimate options for family TV time on that night, at that time. It was non-offensive (funny saying that about Trump now), family friendly, reality TV. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it was well produced, and mindlessly entertaining.
Now, at the same time, while I understand for many people, “the apprentice convinced them he’s a business genius,” that’s SOOO frustrating. I completely agree with you about “his fucking stupidity.” I think the first few seasons, they cut it well to make him appear intelligent. However, as the show went on, I suspect he wanted more and more screen time, and that distracted from the actual show and that’s when we started to notice “his fucking stupidity” showing.
I never watched the show (thankfully), but I always thought that having Trump ridicule/fire these people was part of the ‘entertainment/joke’ aspect of everything because he himself was widely regarded as a joke of businessman… person… Ya know, just a joke in general.
Imagine my surprise to find out - decades later - that apparently not everyone was in on the joke…
Trump businesses were grifts or fronts for money laundering for the Russians, so yeah, that tracks.
Guignols level administration
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.
Pussy
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.
At the courts still hold some power as a check and balance.
He wouldn’t be doing this otherwise.
So they’re bringing them back to let them go again in September. I guess that’s a nice cushion for people to go elsewhere, but still stupid way to go about cost reduction.
Your first mistake would be believing this has anything even renotely to do with cost reduction
Oh ho ho, is the fuhrer getting self conscious or is there a rift between the potus and doge?
