Their salary just doubled. GoVeRnMeNt EfFiCiENcy.
Yep. I work in a government office and the contracting companies have been out in force recruiting. “Resign, we’ll hire you for six-figures. double dip pay till September” best part is, due to limited office space, all the contractors kept their telework status.
It takes forever to hire people, even without the current freeze. That gap has always been filled with well paid contractors who trade long term job security for lucrative 4- year contracts.
I suspect this is the goal here. Cut goverents services, figure out which parts squeak, then hire contractors to do that work at massive profits while either receiving kickbacks or just winning through insider trading.
Ultimately, it probably will lead to higher goverents costs.
Firing people responsible for nuclear weapons and now bird flu. That’s war and pestilence. Any more horsemen of the apocalypse we want to loose?
Best one I’ve seen yet.
The most surprising part to me is the timescale on which this unfolds. It’s been only a month since inauguration and the cracks are already clearly visible. I’d thought it would take at least half a year to a year before shit hits the fan, but they are efficient at being inefficient beyond my wildest imaginations.
He’s not the first to speedrun
We’re going to be seeing this be a trend in these 4 years.
“YEAH WE’RE GONNA FIRE THESE PEOPLE! DEFUND THE GOVERNMENT! CUT OUT THE DEAD WEIGHT!!!”
Few days later…
“Uhhh…uhhh, we need these people! Omg what do we do? uhhhh uhhhh”
Welp, how about you do the job then if you’re going to fire them.
Stupid question - What happens to all the people he’s firing? Isn’t he just creating an unemployment crisis?
yes
Crisis or opportunity for “job creators” to hire at lower wages?
Not a fucking chance - unless he cuts all unemployment benefits (and most of those are at the state level anyways) he’s just ballooning the debt.
The US already has high unemployment, this is unlikely to impact starting wages even after these folks run out of unemployment.
Also, IIRC, getting fired like this can essentially give you a sweetheart deal on your retirement pensions especially if you resume government work. It’ll depend on the specific department, union, and position, though.
Republicans are dumber than dogshit, I swear.
‘Accidentally’.
In other news, noted medieval alchemist RFk Jr was recently confirmed as Health Secretary.
And in yet other news: Soylent Green stocks jumped 16%.
Does anyone know what all this firing is going to do to the unemployment rate and economy? They are firing tens of thousands of people around the country. That’s going to be a lot of people looking for jobs, no longer paying taxes, and cause a cascade effect of losing homes/assets, lower spending, which will slow the economy even more. It’s just a swirling bowl of shit while Elon/Trump stand there pressing the flapper over and over hoping for a better outcome.
I already know someone in the hospitality industry who said conferences and whatnot are cancelling.
There are going to be wide ranging ripple effects from this stupidity.
Elon/Trump stand there pressing the flapper over and over hoping for a better outcome.
Okay, that one got me good. “Better outcome.” Hoooo boy.
Maybe. From a conversation last night:
- most of the people this guy knew who took the slow burn firing were already planning to retire this year. Those have no effect on unemployment, but are just a really disruptive and noisy alternative to an early retirement package, or simply feeezing hires and waiting
- one guy was warned he wasn’t working out so in his best interest to slow fire.
- lots of recruiters hanging around - consulting companies are staffing up on the expectation of a lot of new business
god it is going to take forever to rebuild the government, if we’re even given that opportunity. it’s going to be years of finding out just how terribly trump messed things up.
Coming soon, again… again.
This is why u cannot make rash decisions without doing the research first.
If you do the research, it’s not a rash decision anymore.
Well, you got me there. I just feel like a guy who puts shit into space, and Trump who brags about being a stable genius would realize that firing all these people without a solid plan is a horrible idea…and its probably unnecessary….unless, that is, they don’t care how the gov runs - and they are just firing people so they can funnel the funds for their own advantage…
How about we stop firing people? Dum fuqs.
Art of the deal!
Whoops!
