• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Screw them and hold on to your job for as long and as hard as you can.

    Sure one person fighting is nothing to a billionaire … but a few thousand employees taking the government to court for this stupidity will definitely affect the billionaire.

    Authoritarianism wins as soon as we all just give up and allow them to take control.

    • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      Over half of federal workers are unionized so if Elmo fucks around too much, he just may find out. Many government workers are getting below market rates in exchange for good benefits, security and some sense of helping the commonwealth. They did not sign up for dealing with this chucklefuck. Replacing a bunch of sysadmins, accountants, lawyers and scientists at government pay levels would be challenging.

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        6 hours ago

        Thats the trick… They don’t intend to replace them. This is a thinly disguised austerity measure, intended to cripple agencies to later “show” their ineffectiveness.

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        5 hours ago

        It’s entirely possible that the richest man in the world can fuck around and still not find out.