re: Is DOGE's emphasis on merit and efficiency more important than Veteran Preference?

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The OP was asking should veteran status trump qualifications, which the answer is no.

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The OP confuses me.

IF the veteran already has the job, someone already decided they had the requisite qualifications.

The OP was not speaking to hiring preferences, which frankly would have made for a more interesting debate. OP is speaking to RETENTION.

I did not make the OP. Ask him.

Lot of people here don't understand veteran's preference - not surprising.
Also not surprising, bunch of people here shitting on vets because it suits them in the moment to suck off Elon.

If anyone thinks DOGE has any capacity to evaluate merit with its idiotic emails and 'shoot first ask questions later' approach, you are mistaken. If any of you would bother to get out of the echo chamber, you'll see plenty of stories already circulating of veterans getting fired in these moves. MSM making sure to highlight that disabled vet that just got fired and many others. The "geniuses" at DOGE fired one guy for poor performance yet he's never received an evaluation. You can smirk and deride and ridicule all you want but every one of these people are voters, as are their family members and friends. When people think the choice is to either vote Democrat or lose everything including their pension, that choice is going to be very easy for a lot of people that would have otherwise voted Republican, Independent / 3rd Party, or stayed home. Lot of phony tough guys here but if it was Democrats vowing to destroy your industry or line of work, you'd be sharpening your pitchforks right now and you'd be scared. Fear is a potent motivator.

You mensa candidates keep shitting on govt workers and see where that leads us at the midterms. Add veterans to the list as well. Why just alienate 10M people when you can add 20M more to the list?

As a side note - the other day I was watching a youtube channel with a very progressive, far left host. She referred to Crenshaw as Eye Patch McCain. I've never seen that term except on this site. JMO, but there are a lot of people reading this site, from Fox News to Trump people to Democrats and more. Keep shitting on these huge voting blocks so all of these people can see what you're doing. Midterm elections could be real shitty night and we end up with Schumer and Pelosi running things again, along with the hundreds of useless GOPe cucks, who will provide a veto-proof majority to disembowel the Trump agenda.

It's not too late for you guys to uncork your heads from your asses. Or, you can enjoy some more of this in the near future:

Full disclosure. I used to do a significant amount of federal contracting before my firm went another direction. I also have good buddies who are currently Fed employees. We all are all deep conservatives that voted for Trump 3 times.

But please explain how DOGE has had any emphasis on merit thus far? They have not. It’s been nothing but low-hanging blanket cuts with no analysis whatsoever on employee performance. And it isn’t like this would be difficult and/or cost additional time and $ - all Fed employees have periodic performance appraisals. Maybe that’s next. Who knows. But thus far, DOGE’s activities have had nothing to do with merit or even really efficiency for that matter.

I am both a vet and government worker so explain it to me. As far as disabled vet, vets can claim disability for any and everything and not actually be disabled. Disability in the veteran world and civilian world are totally different and vets are well compensated for it.