Posted on 02/08/2025 6:31:21 AM PST by kevcol
A federal worker at a Virginia town hall is bemoaning the standard audit procedures many in the private sector endure quite often. He tells horror stories of employees having to describe what their job entails and worries of cuts
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says 19-year-old DOGE employees are having 15 minute interviews with federal employees to “justify their existence” before determining if they should be fired.
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Relax. If some fool judge doesn’t stop it, they’ll be gone soon.
Yup. That’s not unusual.
What irks me is if a worker leaves a job without 2 weeks notice, the employer always freaks out. It’s “unprofessional” and deeply hurtful. Hey, Boss, welcome to the real world. If I tried to give you 2 weeks notice, you’d probably have security walk me to the door and stop my paychecks.
Welcome to the real world.”
Employees go through this identical process all the time. Play time is over kids at least until a rat Judge saves them.
Same for me. Huge RIF at startup i worked at. We weren’t allowed back into the building again.
“kevcol
DOGE and Elon Musk have ZERO executive authority.
They can only gather information and advise President Trump and other Executive Officers.”
Each agency has to implement a DOGE team. The agency head can then implement DOGE programs.
Lots can be done without having Trump involved.
Or learn to do plumbing, electricity, or any number of other useful trades that can’t be done from nine time zones away.
Stevie Wonder can see it coming.
Even the most grifty scams in USAID or elsewhere aren’t just a bucket of money dropped straight into some slime’s bank account. They’re for some nice sounding or woke ‘purpose’ and often tied together with a ream of regulatory CFR citations or other bureaucratic rules.
In order to achieve that ‘purpose’ even condoms for Nigerian crocodiles or whatever, firms exist to then develop systems to satisfy those regulations and track how Grant X is in turn divvied up to SubGrants A, B, etc. (regular people call this “laundering” inclusive of picking the connected people and firms to do the system work.)
This takes a lot of work when the objective is to get the money around the world and back to Langley to fund some CIA horrorshow.
Anyway the point is: no grants, no systems. No systems equals a surfeit of systems talent — and already these firms are scrambling to figure out how to use maximum H1B, offshore, and AI coders to minimize cost. (This is massively stupid but that’s some other thread).
Into this we will now have a wave of well-connected government types entering the job market.
Bad time to go into coding.
I worked in an office for several years, all of us got fired by some dude on a speaker phone! Severance package? Hahahaha, 15 minutes to collect your stuff now go away!!! Zero F’s to give.
Well, you see, that’s the rub…most federal employees actually have no job duties that aren’t just B.S. made up by their managers…and making up that B.S. is one of the few job duties of that manager.
Did you ever watch the movie “Money Ball”?
“Peter” was “just” a player analyst....yet every decision was based on his input. That may not be “authority” but there’s a fine line between “authority” and “DeFacto authority”.
Even a 19 year-old can handle these types of assessments:
1. So I see you’ve been working here for the last ___ years, is that right?
2. What would you say you do here?
3. What were your ten [adjust for length of tenure and type of work] most important contributions to the mission of this organization?
In my experience, government employees actually worked fairly hard and took their jobs seriously. The problem was that the “work” was mostly unnecessary or counterproductive. If the recent stories of what USAID was up to truely reflect its activities, terminate the hardest-working, most “effective” employees first. The mere layabouts do much less damage.
When the employees assembled, a letter was read: “The people in this room are no longer needed, effective immediately.” They were told to be out by the end of the day.
Many had been with the company for 20 years. Some didn’t even return to their offices to gather their personal effects.
If it takes longer than 15 minutes for you to explain what your job is…then you don’t really do anything real.
I got laid off twice by the same company...
Welcome to the jungle.
So have I!
Learn to PICK is more fitting.
My God, what a pathetic, sheltered, crybaby whiner. These people have NO idea how they come across to the NORMAL Americans who work for a living and face layoffs every day.
I’ve worked for rapidly growing companies, companies that peak and are static, and shrinking companies.
In the first instance, you are under intense pressure to keep the growth going, look for new markets, find new customers to serve.
In the second instance, you are trying to find the old fire that made the company great and figure out why growth has stalled and what you can do about it.
In the third case, you hope you won’t be the one to get the axe and you get motivated to develop a Plan B if the axe does fall.
You learn how to grow your skills to make yourself more valuable, how to read the tea leaves, and how to constantly prepare yourself for anything.
The federal whiner in this video epitomizes a person who thought he had a paycheck for life no matter how little work he did or how worthless he really was.
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