Summary
Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has reportedly hired a 21-year-old senior advisor and a freshly graduated high schooler, showing the administration’s unconventional hiring approach.
Many new appointees have ties to Elon Musk, including OPM’s chief of staff Amanda Scales, formerly of xAI.
The administration is restructuring government staffing, influenced by Musk’s cost-cutting model.
A White House memo, echoing Musk’s 2022 Twitter overhaul, offers buyouts to employees unwilling to meet new performance standards.
Elon’s work force reduction method is simple. Force everyone to return to office full time; increase hours and responsibilities with no corresponding increase in pay; and offer severance packages to employees who won’t put up with this treatment, then don’t actually pay them.
I hope the governments workers’ union is strong and has some teeth. They’re going to need it.
Very similar to the corporate play book.
Yeah, it is really fucked because most people vote no for this type of bull shit in 2012. No one wanted a Mitt Romney style corporate divide and sell off style of “government”. But fuck here we are
The best part? The conservative propaganda machine made them all believe that the corporate pillaging wouldn’t happen, and they would be taken care of, despite all available evidence to the contrary.