news

generally most of the reason for staying in a GS rated position is the benefits, including the pension which is calculated based on years of service.

it isn't like tech douche start up world where it's all salary and stove-piped stock options and a maniacal boss who can terminate medical insurance at a whim.

there simply aren't enough political appointees to oversee and pressure people to leave without an actual pension buyout including healthcare, which would balloon the shit out of costs, which would over what these agencies have in their budgets. which would require added funding from congress.... good luck selling that as efficiency.

there's a reason they are saying "paid through September" because that's all the funding they have to work with, since that's the end of the federal fiscal calendar.

honestly, I bet they don't even get 5% of the workforce to take the bait, even making it so easy to resign with Musk's auto-resign-by-email app, which probably fails some HR paperwork requirement of a legit digital signature.

People are missing the actual point of this. It is a bribes based government purge. It is actually pretty brilliant and also terrifying.

Bloomberg Money | Apr 13, 2025

Niche French social media platform Hexbear.net to acquire US Postal Service

"Basically, what we want the world to hear is that we're going postal," site representative Lyudmila Pavlyuchenkova told CNN's Jake Tapper. With the Press Secretary position once again unoccupied, the Trump Administration has again muddied the water by posting wildly different accounts and conflicting information to supporters on Truth Social and X (formerly Twitter), reflecting a phenomenon the White House has repeatedly refused to comment on following the rumored rift between the Musk and Trump camps within the administration.

Imagine being on track to quit and taking this instead lol

It's not even a buyout, it's a you get to keep teleworking but you voluntarily resign by September.

King of deals, at it again

Hahaha holy shit he's blowing up the government.

I said so many fucking times that if Elon comes in and does DOGE and fires 30% of the US states' workforce in "cost savings" like he did at X the entire machine will come to a grinding halt.

I can't fucking believe they're actually doing it.

Severance? Like the TV show?

Decades in weeks comrade

De-lib-ification

Once again stays winning just

The us is so cooked lol

actually joker laughed

That’s really really funny. Not that bad on a “fucking over a bunch of people directly” level, very bad from a “keeping the American State a going concern level

i thought such measures were for smaller countries like Argentina, Greece or ones outside the capitalist bloc like the USSR. But nope.

An email went out to the federal workforce Tuesday evening, with a subject line that had ties to Elon Musk.

This shit is completely absurd lmfao

they're finally shutting it down to figure out what's going on

bruh

I was worried when Elon got on board, but it seems he's turning the government into X the everything app and that's just great (as someone who doesn't live in the US). I weep for all you Yankees though.

I just assume this has something to do with Musk because it's the same type of dogshit maneuvers he did to twitter.

I see America is going full catabolic collapse

holy shit

I'm not a fan of the US govt, but if this also includes people like librarians, national park or museum staff it's really grim regardless.

The funny thing is, this could have been an attractive option to people who were Medicare eligible and close to retirement, if Trump didn’t just grind entitlements to a screeching halt.

The severance procedure.

A friend of mine who just moved for a federal role fresh out of college and hates their job and their work site. Their email was different from the article and said they don't have to work at all while still getting paid. So they can get paid for 7 months of searching for a job somewhere else. I guess to prevent them from spreading DEI propaganda in the meantime?

The FAQ on the OPM actually says that people are not expected to work during the resignation period. But they can also just fire you at any time before September.

"If they don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of 8 months."