DoE: "Our case load has become too much to handle. We need you to come back to work, but we don't want to actually give your jobs back."
The fired workers: "Go fuck yourself."
Hopefully.
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Or better yet ...
Fired workers: ... sure, I'll come back on one condition ..... you give me four times the rate of pay I had before ... then when your stupid backlog is taken care of .... you can go fuck yourself.
... oh you don't want to pay four times the rate? .... no problem .... go fuck yourself.
Alternatively, this is the civil rights division. These people likely care about civil rights and are pissed at the people who fired them. Lot of room for adversarial behavior as employees here
Yeah any slight hint of civil rights violation would be getting the full settlement in my case load.
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Exactly.
Oh, you still need me?
I'm a contractor now, lets talk rates.
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No one with a better option is coming back and waiting tables is more lucrative than teaching. If anyone comes to the departments aid it will be the dregs.
Hey, they wouldn’t fire those guys in the first place.
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Probably a pretty rough spot for those employees. I imagine their pensions, health benefits and retirement stuff hinges on the definition of administrative leave etc.
If you were one of the employees on admin leave with a sick kid dependent on that healthcare plan... How big a risk would you make your kid take for you?
“We’re firing you, but you’re ‘ordered’ back to work”
. . . for a short time. You don’t get your old job back.
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Ordered
Yeah, how about No.
You don’t get to order people who don’t work for you.
You’d be surprised what a severance package can manipulate a laid off employee into doing.
They've been out since March.
Either their package was paid or why would you trust them to pay out of they haven't already.
It says they are on administrative leave. So they do technically still work there is some quasi state. I assume the order would force them to come back or quit. Which is probably the point.
You do when you have the legitimate monopoly on violence.
Our entire government is run by rich idiot children.
"What if the Federal Government was run like an HOA?"
HOAs make my fucking blood boil and I don't even live with one. The whole idea that some fuck stick with a house near you could tell you how to keep your property, and it's legal, is absolutely bonkers to me!
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These people are fucking morons. Between the lawsuit losses and rebuilding the organization, they will have saved approximately negative bajillion dollars.
I can assure you the United States government isn't in the business of saving money and especially a currently GOP controlled fart box called the white house. The United States is being strip mined. Sold off for parts. We spent the last 30 years starving the beast and now it's time to kill it and carve it up.
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Yes, of taxpayer money. But they've funneled quite a lot into private pockets.
"...shows the agency ordered a significant portion of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back..."
Sorry, I'm too busy telling you to FUCK OFF. Maybe I'll be free in about 6 months? Until then, FUCK OFF
You're ORDERING me to come back to help you fight the people who are suing you for your egregious abuses?
I will return for quadruple the salary, and a 50% pension with 100% paid health care that starts immediately after I leave for ANY reason. I will have a 4 day work week, and I will do it from home. Any Zoom meetings require 24 hours notice.
I could think of about 100 more conditions, and if they violate ANY of them, or fire me for any reason, I quit immediately, and my pension rises to 100%, and it starts immediately.
No negotiation. Agree to EVERYTHING, or the answer is No.
And then when they agreed, I'd take the job, and then tank it so badly that they'd have to fire me, because keeping me would be more damaging than paying a lifetime salary and benefits.
The Secretary of Education and the MAGA government is determined to eliminate the Department of Education, so I'd have no problem with sabotaging the agency that they are determined to destroy anyway. I just won't destroy it in the ways they want me to.
Yup. Get all that in writing and then insist they pay you in CASH. DAILY. I would beyond doing anything on "trust."
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And I’m sitting here in a third world “shithole” country, looking at all this and shaking my head.
Which country? I live in Canada and have had angry Americans explain that we live in a socialist hellhole with no rights and a poor quality of life.
Which was an interesting take since Ive lived in both countries and my life here is way the fuck better than it was down there.
They live in a delusion down there.
Which was an interesting take since Ive lived in both countries and my life here is way the fuck better than it was down there
Can also confirm. I lived in the US for ~25 years before moving, Canada is so much better. Though I do think we could be even more of a "socialist hellhole" up here
There’s plenty of dumbass Canadians who spout the same lies.
Yeah Ive seen Albertans.
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Damn, they need a ton of people to rubber stamp "Denied, no discrimination here!" on things.
Cause you know that's all they want them to do.
Why not stamp, "Approved"? What are they going to do, fire you?
The "Approved" stamp requisition was denied.
Reason: unnecessary surplus.
Ask for a year's salary upfront before you open a single case.
These trash humans are insane.
1 Fire all the people in the Office of Civil Rights.
2 Deploy a bunch of ICE assholes to violate civil rights.
3 Receive record number of complaints
4 Rehire fired people.
5 Clear caseload.
6 Repeat step 1
7 ??????
8 Profit.
This admin has been on point with these headlines. They fire a shit ton and say...oh shit, we fucked up. Total incompetence
How about "No" and "Fark No?"
You’re allowed to say “fuck”
You are allowed to not say fuck on the internet, if you don't want to :)
why AREN'T you saying the f-word uncensored? are you a mormon?
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If I was a furlough worker, I'd tell them to go to hell and I'd find me a job with a decent employer.
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Imagine a world where she botched and broke her neck
"How to moron" <---this administration
Wow, the rare double whammy of fuck ups!
I hope the government loses by default on any cases that it can't respond to in a timely manner.
Damn her face looks like it was put on with a shotgun.
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