@SabreExe@gietzschean Always a lil skeptical but that sounds interesting. Downsizing the govt is a great idea, still hope it can be done. Just wish this administration had done it properly/legally and not so carelessly
@ramblingphoton@gietzschean Good question. They ended up having to rehire a bunch of the positions since they seemingly didn't really check who they were firing. No clue if the % they attempted to rehire was 25, 50, or even 90%, but my friend was among them.
@gietzschean Trying to reply to the good-faith reasonable replies in here. Did have to mute the thread since it attracted quite a few trolls and some who are just misled
@gietzschean You forgot
- obliterate the U.S government by firing thousands of working citizens with no notice, gutting research and postdocs in the process and giving china an advantage over us
@Kosnolie@DixieNormus099@gietzschean A lot of people say "nuh uh the government still works," but there's a reason they had to re-hire the nuclear safety staff. Also, the 5-reasons emails looked like phishing. They weren't even sent from government / internal emails.
It was just a shitshow. That's why I dislike him
@Kosnolie@DixieNormus099@gietzschean I had front-row tickets to the circus. They axed entire wings and only checked for fuck-ups AFTER, at which point they had to scramble to re-hire people. The people they fired illegally (which was A LOT of people) ended up being kept on payroll but couldn't do any of their work
@CaesuraFord damn man i feel bad now, you got one shot at this life but you're spending it saying stupid shit on old twitter posts. get a job, hit the gym, fresh haircut, follow Jesus and you'll be just fine. some of us have excellent reasons for disliking Elon.
but this is wild behavior ngl
@DixieNormus099@gietzschean The reason I'm saying this: had a friend doing his postdoc within a govt agency. Invented a system that improves public safety (won't get too specific) Zero funding. Him and every single postdoc were fired with zero notice.
They then had to rehire him. He'd already moved away
@RyanCryan2222@gietzschean I'm talking about civil servants, researchers, etc. Not bureaucrats. The problem with everyone in these replies isn't just that you're all stupid, it's that you're extremely overconfident. Muting this thread since noone in here knows what they're talking about
@LEC360@gietzschean Not from MSM. I have friends who worked under the federal government and this is what happened. Also, that isn't true. They mostly fired people by abolishing their positions, not asking that question. Muting this thread since not a single one of you has any idea what's happening
@b_connerton@tommysantos14 Dawg what Trump sleeps during meetings because he's up late shitposting about the dems + him and his base popularized ragebait politics to "make the libs cry"