re: USAID worker put on Administrative leave two weeks ago only realized it yesterday

Was waiting for the smoke detector beep. Left disappointed.

Check out the first comment:

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I work in a Federal building. Five people, whom I have never seen before, came in today asking to check their emails to see if they were on probation (on the chopping block) with a government computer. We don't have computers for public or general use, and giving someone your computer is a major information security awareness violation. We have to take courses about this. None of them even had a LincPass, aka a PIV card. They are so out of the loop; they don't even know any Federal employee rules. This is basic stuff. They are coming in one after the other, probably for the first time in 5 years. All of them were denied; some of them were not happy about it. Too bad. These are people who were quite possibly getting full time paychecks for doing little to nothing in five years, at least.

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There's a huge question of the legality of the funds being removed from USAID which, ya know, kinda leaves jobs in limbo. Those funds were appropriated by Congress. They're law. I don't know if this woman is part of the federal union, but the union is telling folks to stay the course.


All this talk about lazy government workers....
Yeah, there are some lazy folks. No doubt. Those folks should be identified and RIF'd, same as happens in the private sector. I don't think you'll find many people who disagree with that approach.

But RIFs typically target underperformers. The way DOGE is going about this is just insane. There are roughly 3 million federal workers, the same as there were 50 years ago (we use contractors now). If you offer folks a severance package to voluntarily leave (which they can't promise funding for because Congress hasn't approved spending on severance for hundreds of thousands of people), you're going to lose a lot of high performing people in critical roles.

The people who are strong enough to work elsewhere and have choices? They'll leave. The low performers who aren't good enough tor the private sector? They'll stay. You see the problem with this???? I mean, really, take off the political glasses and look at this pragmatically/strategically. I don't think there's a worse way to trim a workforce than the way this is being done.

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The way DOGE is going about this is just insane

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All they can do is identify and make a recommendation.

I’M NOT SAYING THE MOVE TRUMP MADE WAS THE WRONG DECISION. Is that clear?

Now, did you watch the video? She wasn’t just not checking her email for almost two weeks, she went to logon and her access was suddenly revoked. Nobody notified her she was being put on leave, she only found out because her login no longer worked. That is kinda messed up.

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I’M NOT SAYING THE MOVE TRUMP MADE WAS THE WRONG DECISION. Is that clear?

Now, did you watch the video? She wasn’t just not checking her email for almost two weeks, she went to logon and her access was suddenly revoked. Nobody notified her she was being put on leave, she only found out because her login no longer worked. That is kinda messed up.

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And we believe her story because...

Which do you think is more likely: they revoked everyone's access with zero warning, or this chick took her sweet arse time figuring out what happened because she didn't work all that hard?

Did she not communicated with any of her collogues at all? No work that required any kind of collaboration? No office friends? Even I have a group chat with a few office buddies and would have heard about something like that immediately.

Do you not understand how a quote works?

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The word "we" is no where in my post, jackass.

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Keep on gaslighting my man, you might want to go edit your post before you try again though

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Keep on gaslighting my man, you might want to go edit your post before you try again though

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Ah, the parenthetical. Yeah, we...as in the US Government. I'm an American. You?

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Ah, the parenthetical. Yeah, we...as in the US Government. I'm an American. You?

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Sorry for catching you slip up.