Workers preparing to leave the government have described how months of “fear and intimidation” left them feeling like they had no choice but to depart.
“Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave,” a longtime employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) told the Guardian. “That’s why I left.”
I can’t help but think that all the good, principled ones quitting is part of the plan.
I think it’s less one sided than you assume. My relatives work in government and the majority of people they saw jumping at that DOGE letter were conservative types who truly thought they would be able to pick up another job and get paid on the side for the 6 months or whatever it was.
The thing is they don’t need to push people out, to get their people in, it will happen naturally. The average government employee is 47, in a lot of offices and agencies that avg is much higher. These people will just naturally retire, a lot are even eligible. So any excuse gets these feet out the door, they only weren’t retired previously because they don’t know what to do with their time.
Once you get your people in, it’s semi trivial to get them promoted to the positions you want. So they don’t care, it’s all going to plan either way. Even if 90% of people leaving are Republican, you don’t know that they will actually kiss the ring… However the people you hire? You absolutely know they will, it was part of the hiring process afterall.
They’ll all be hired back as consultants in two years with a substantial pay increase.
let me get some of that shit you been smokin
Right, after the second civil war that the left wins by Festivus (Happy Holidays, Everyone) we’ll obviously be reforming the contract worker system
