Trump offering buyout to gov workers who WFH

How much do you want to bet that Elonia has his fingers deep into some water system technology in the works to provide water purification/reclamation services. He would herald himself as the savior of area that are facing water shortages due to climate change and would make a killing off of controlling water supplies.

This would also help explain trump’s recent fascination with California’s recent water issues, I.e. laying the groundwork for federal subsidies for Elonia’s research and development of such a system.

What is happening now...

After President Donald Trump offered a buyout for federal workers, one employee who works at a federal agency decided to take the deal — and has not heard back, despite the deadline being Thursday. The employee shared their experience with ABC News on Monday.

The “Fork in the Road” program offers federal employees the option to resign but continue receiving pay until September. The move is part of an attempt by the Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk to shrink the government. Some experts have said this move would be illegal because it is promising funds for a budget that Congress has not yet approved.
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They emailed the word “resign,” following the Office of Personnel Management’s instructions. They soon got a response: "We received your email response. We will reply shortly."

Almost a week later, the employee has not heard anything else, and the deadline is fast approaching.

Colleagues at their agency, they said, have been confused about the deal. Management, they said, had been silent; when they told management about their decision to resign, management apparently did not respond. The worker went to management again, and they were told “they should have waited for more guidance before accepting the offer,” ABC News’ Will Steakin wrote. Management also told them that they would still have to do their job after they resigned, although they later walked back that claim.

Last week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that this program is a way to get people back into the workforce.

"We're all here at work, at the office," Leavitt said. "There are law enforcement officers and teachers and nurses across the country who showed up to the office today. People in this city need to do the same. It's an overwhelmingly popular policy with people outside of Washington, D.C."

www.rawstory.com/crickets-federal-workers-met-with-silence-after-trying-to-take-trump-s-buyouts/

It is getting worse by the hour!!

There are more changes to the so called buyouts...


Federal employees on Thursday were put on notice by the Trump administration that workers with less than stellar performance reviews would face immediate termination as the focus shifts from offering resignation buyouts to poor performers, according to media reports.

The new development comes as the president and his billionaire ally at the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk increase their bullying tactics to fulfill their vow of upending the federal workforce. So far, the so-called “buyout” program has received more than 50,000 takers across federal agencies, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

But that is just a fraction of the more than 2 million people currently employed by the U.S. government. Now, a new memo gives federal agencies until March 7 to compile lists of their poorest performing employees as the administration looks to advance a “tougher posture,” according to Bloomberg.
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The memo from the Office of Personnel Management instructed agencies to come up with lists of “all employees who received less than a ‘fully successful’ performance rating in the past three years.” OPM acting director Charles Ezell, who wrote the memo, said the information would be used “to swiftly terminate poor performing employees.”
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The memo “is the latest in a series of directives implementing Trump’s executive orders demanding sweeping changes to the federal workforce,” Bloomberg noted.

www.rawstory.com/federal-employees-trump-2671111847/

I rather think the end game is to privatize/use contractors for a lot of the services that are being cut so that someone can profit from them.

The notifications that went out last month, at least in the Agency I work, served as the official 30 day notice to terminate remote agreements for civil servants. They're working in parallel with that to identify adequate onsite spaces for those remote workers, so they're still WFH until given a space. This includes 'distant remote' where the employee is more than 50 miles from a facility within our agency.

I suppose we're luckier than some (in the grand scheme of things) because my center is a dedicated facility and didn't have leases expired or terminated the past few years. Not all locations or agencies are that lucky. That said, the building I'm in lost 50-100 spots for people when a decision was made last year to move a warehouse for one of the contracts from an off-site location to the first floor of my building. I know all those people 'displaced' from that warehouse move will eventually have to come back (they're all contractors). I also know the contractor does not have space off-site for them.

They also have eyes on where I sit, as there are 11 spots in the 16-cube 'shotgun shack' room available. The trick is that any new occupants will have to be in the same group as those of us already in there and have the same clearance AND need-to-know. This makes me think they're probably going to have to move us to a different secure area (that doesn't currently exist unless they kick people out of some of the smaller offices on our floor). I know my govvie doesn't want to sit in some group environment, but it's not up to him ultimately. It's a nightmare for sure.