re: Number of federal workers accepting buyout has jumped to 75,000 per axios

You have to get it signed off by your supervisor. If you didn’t then you are breaking the rules.

You can have outside employment, you just have to have permission.

Also, many are required to fill out an annual form disclosing all income, spouse income, investment holdings, asset name, personal loans not showing up on a commercial credit report, etc. There is full disclosure of finances.

The people taking the buyout are people that would retire this year anyway, those who are probationary and see the writing in the wall, and those that planned on leaving anyway.

The stay until Monday is going to bump up those numbers as more people have time to plan. Also, a court upholding the offer will add validity. Lot of people holding out because they don't trust it. If a court gives validation to it, that will make the numbers pop too.

Trump will easily get his 10% number. Then reorganize with who's left and move on. First POTUS to do such a thing in a long time. Congrats.

If it comes to a RIF, severance is one week salary for each year up to the first 10 years, 2 weeks for every year after that. So a 20 year employee in their early 50s not ready to retire would get a severance of 30 weeks, that's almost 8 months right there. Why not ride it out and see. On a RIF scale, employees over 10 years of service are somewhat safe. It's worth the risk.

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What people don't understand is when we shutdown the government, Trump is going to lay them off, so he can pay soldiers and retiree's. It should be awesome, I tell you...

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As a doctor at the VA who actually works 5+ days a week and helps Veterans, I’m hoping I’m retained or at least given a chance to prove my value.

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This guy gets it

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Yes

Although I doubt they get more than 6% or so like normal turnover.

Then he will fire probationary employees, that would get them over the 10% i believe

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Nobody was forced to accept the offer.

Yep. 13% of Feds are probationary right now. He'll get to 10%. Phase 2 is a selective hiring freeze to shrink the size of government naturally through attrition. Attrition rate each year is about 100,000, so 5% or so. He can easily reduce government size by 25% over his term rather painlessly.

Why is it important to do this smart?

One, you don't want to shock the system and have a million feds unemployed. For every Fed job you lose, 2 more private sector jobs go with it. Think how hard Congressman fight to keep their bases and Federal buildings. Losing them wrecks the local economy. Same thing on a bigger scale.

Two, go ahead and piss off 2.5 million Feds and see if you win another election. Elections are close. Trump won Virginia, does he want Vance to win it in 2028? Does he want to win in midterms?

Gotta be smart about this.

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full time jobs with the Feds and another

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I know a few of these

Unemployment would soar if the cuts are too deep , too fast.

It’s a deferred resignation until September, still employed getting paid.
On the other hand, an old fashioned “I quit here’s my two weeks notice”- then yea nothing to do there.

When are the Dem's shutting down the government again? Then we can blame them for all those civil servants losing out on their severance!!!!!