Posted on 02/08/2025 1:55:36 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
If you’re on the public payroll, and you can’t give an elevator pitch on what it is you do and why it’s of use, then you probably shouldn’t be working there.
The DOGE boys can’t actually fire them. They merely interview them and decide whether in their estimation the person SHOULD BE FIRED. That name goes on a list which is turned over to someone who IS qualified and AUTHORIZED to fire any or all.
Normally you can root out a fool in 15 minutes by just having them talk....note how many times O’Keefe has done it.
If a typical person graduates high school at age 18 and takes 4 years to graduate college, they would be 22. 19-21 year olds would not be common.
Office Space is classic!
For some reason your post triggered a special memory. I was driving into Atlanta with an old Marine sergeant when the devil made me take the exit one short of the destination. That guy looked at me and said, “Well, LT, do I need to get your compass out for you?”
Uh huh.
Here are the questions...
Those are not bad questions. They seem like pretty common ones I have been asked in a normal job interview. But these events are not a normal job interview. If these events are happening as reported (which I personally doubt at this time), they are a "gotcha" interview where the wrong answers get you fired. And most of the possible answers are going to be wrong answers.
It is a situation guaranteed to bring out the worst in people, both as interviewers and as subjects.
As for "no technical knowledge required" - that depends on the true purpose of the interview. If the purpose is to meet a layoff quota, all you need do is sense hostility, anxiety, inarticulate responses, or arrogance, and you are done with that subject no matter what they say. You don't need to understand a single word of their answers. The no-shows make it even easier. You can meet your quota before lunch. Truly, no technical knowledge of any sort is required.
This sort of thing ruins the lives of people and some of them will show that in very obvious ways to the interviewer. It takes a cultivated sociopath to do this sort of task more than a few times. Organizations keep sociopaths around for precisely this reason, to do nasty things that need doing to people who may or may not be the right people to target for the nasty things. The sociopaths do not care, and they are not supposed to care.
It is not an easy task, and after it is done, you don't want to keep the interviewers around either. They have almost certainly developed toxic and sadistic attitudes which make them dangerous to your own organization.
If DOGE is really doing these kinds of personal interviews, they are inherently cruel. Be wary of what else they may be doing. At some point they will need to be reined in - by "our guys", not the Leftists.
Notice the big "IF" in that paragraph. I am still unsure if anything we hear about this is accurate.
Sadly enough the 19 to 21 year olds are going to spend their entire lives paying off the debt that these foolish and corrupt a-holes have incurred through fraud, waste, and abuse.
If you can’t justify your existence in FIFTEEN MINUTES TIME, you are not needed.
He was the "old man" on the aircraft. Years ago I would catch helicopter flights out of Norwich England to the North Sea Oil Rigs where I worked. Near by was an old US Army Air Force base now closed from which B17s would fly to bomb Germany. There were many pictures of the crews on the walls always taken in front of their aircraft. They were all young, very young. Many of those young men died in the air over Germany. On their first bombing raid they knew not what they would encounter and it was bad. On all other raids they knew but climbed into their aircraft and did their duty.
Everyone of them are heroes.
70 % of Google employees are in their 20.
These aren’t typical young men. They are exceptionally brilliant. There are plenty of brilliant people who never even went to college and also that went and finished very young.
Defending the typical government bureaucrat seems foolish based on my experience dealing with various government bureaucrats over my lifetime
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