The best option is probably take them up on that offer as soon as possible and start looking for a different job.
If you don’t take the offer you will be fired anyway just later when the jobs are already filled outside.
Meanwhile the federal government is running on a skeleton crew and millions of people get screwed over or go hungry or die.
So the suggestion is the people who voted for this government have no idea what they were doing and now the workers need to go against their own government to save America? If that would be so then democracy doesn’t work in America.
I’m not going to entertain Russian trolls. The majority of Americans did not vote for Trump, and the vast majority of those who did likely wouldn’t agree with a wholesale dismantling of their government. The ones that do agree can fuck right off for thinking Trump has any interest in their lives or wellbeing.
I’m not a Russian troll which you clearly can see from my posting history.
The majority of Americans did not vote for Trump
Then how does democracy work normally?
If i were them I’d leave, fuck Trump
If your morals are for sale, especially at such a low price, then you have no morals. These jobs are important. Many of the roles would be filled again, but with sycophants who will do everything they can to hurt marginalized groups of people.
If you really believe in “fuck trump” then you should be on board with people remaining at their post to reject and refuse illegal orders.
What they said. You beat this by not letting trump do whatever he wants. Say “No, make me.”
what are the chances that they don’t pay after you do take it?
Yeah. I wouldn’t take it just for that.
If I were past the retirement threshold, I would probably take this. If I were so burned out that I could barely cope, I would probably take this. If I were dying and it wouldn’t affect my family’s benefits, I would probably take this.
But in all other cases, you know what I would do? I would reach out to HR and start having the discussions with them. I’d get those “efficiency” wolves salivating at the chance to vacate my position. I’d ask questions, I’d have trouble with the paperwork, highlight certain lines in the agreement where I needed more assurance and clarification. I’d inject additional terms…I mean really gum up the works. I’d occupy as much of their time as they’d give me.
And when it was finally time to sit down and sign, I’d rip it all up, right there in front of whomever I could get an audience with and tell ‘em I changed my mind. And then I’d do it all over again 3 months later.
You must have missed the details in the article. OPM has listed on their website under ‘fork’. The deadline for acceptance is 6 Feb, and the resignation will be effective at the end of September. There is no back and forth with HR; you simply reply to their email with the word ‘resign’ or you don’t and remain employed until the loyalty police come around.
Someone on reddit pointed out there’s an OPM rule that makes max payout at something like $25k. Let me go dig it up real quick.
Because that means a lot of people wouldn’t get paid the full amount and Trump is absolutely the kind of person who would use shit like that as an excuse to not keep paying out. I wouldn’t trust this deal because based on stuff like this it doesn’t pass the sniff test.
Apologies for (slight retch) a reddit link:
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Per OPM, the federal government can’t legally pay more than $25k, pre-tax. This is another scam. Trump is the literal master of grift. You think he’s gonna make good on this debt after years of not paying his bills?
Edit: Source below
It’s also not legal for him to make the offer without Congress allocating the funds and I doubt there’s much enthusiasm for this. And if he just ignores Congress, then he’s a dictator and just won’t pay like he doesn’t pay his legal bills. You’re screwed either way if you take the offer.
I suspect this is just a scheme to identify people who aren’t loyal to Trump so they can be sidelined and/or fired.
