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The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday, with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of its deferred resignation program.

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The mass exodus is the largest single-year decline in civilian federal employment since the second world war.

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Stonyground
Stonyground
1 day ago

Is this being reported as if it’s a bad thing? Reducing the size of the state without having to look like the villains by firing people seem like a small bonus at the very least. If at least some of these government workers follow up by getting a real job that would good for productivity as well.

John
John
1 day ago

Have they run out of soros-backed federal district judges blocking anything that orange man wants?

JuliaM
JuliaM
1 day ago

“…it is clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to turn the federal government into a toxic environment where workers cannot stay even if they want to.”

Splendid idea! Is Reform listening and taking notes?

Ted S., Catskill Mtns, NY, USA
Ted S., Catskill Mtns, NY, USA
22 hours ago
Reply to  JuliaM

Government-sector workers have made dealing with the State toxic for the rest of us.

PiPEuropeanLeader
PiPEuropeanLeader
22 hours ago

One of the high points of TheTrumpEra, as accredited idiots call it, was the revelation that all the paperwork that covers individual fedgov pension entitlements lives in a deep cave and that the rate that the paper (paper!) can be accessed is governed by the capacity of the lift.

I howled with laughter. The stupid cnuts hadn’t even organised their own pension records intelligently.

John
John
19 hours ago

Not dissimilar to the nhs with its reliance on cardboard patient files and fax machines.

Norman
Norman
17 hours ago
Reply to  John

They work better than the IT.

jgh
jgh
17 hours ago
Reply to  Norman

Cardboard patient files *ARE* information technology. The technology is words written on cardboard, the information is patient records.

Norman
Norman
17 hours ago
Reply to  jgh

I fink you get me drift. My fledgeling doctor complains of waiting 15 minutes for an ancient PC to log in. No wonder they all squirt patient records around on WhatsApp.

Chris Miller
Chris Miller
15 hours ago
Reply to  Norman

When a PC takes 15 minutes to log in, it’s very likely that it’s using Microsoft’s roaming capability (in AD) that has been badly implemented. Someone needs to introduce the admins to the clue stick …

PiPEuropeanLeader
PiPEuropeanLeader
11 hours ago
Reply to  Norman

It used to be that every now and again you’d read about someone considering buying a second hand car. They’d open the boot and find it contained a hoard of NHS patient records.

Gamecock
Gamecock
20 hours ago

the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal

Quick, Donald! Cancel deferred resignation program! You don’t need it! You can soon just fire them!

Gamecock
Gamecock
20 hours ago

Federal workers are heroes!

Says federal workers union. Reagan tried to ban unionization of federal workers. The mere fact they are unionized declares they are not heroes. It’s about them, not you.

PiPEuropeanLeader
PiPEuropeanLeader
18 hours ago
Reply to  Gamecock

There’s not much I admire about the fascistic FDR but at least he refused to allow unions for federal government employees.

Gamecock
Gamecock
17 hours ago

Yep. That’s about it for FDR. And banging Lucy Rutherford.

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