Posted on 02/05/2025 1:46:03 AM PST by ransomnote
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Federal employees have started receiving an email from their specific agency's HR department that contains a PDF contract version of the deferred resignation offer that was sent around last week by the U.S Office of Personnel Management, according to multiple federal employees across multiple agencies who shared the emails with ABC News.
The contract largely lays out what OPM has previously stated would be offered if an employee accepts the deal -- with one major addition: The contract states that by signing, the employee "forever waives" the right to take legal action against the agency regarding their employment or the deferred resignation offer.
The agreement states that the employee, in accepting the deferred resignation offer, waives their right to future claims by themselves or their union.
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I believe this is quite standard, though I don’t expect ABC to know.
I believe they will also sign certain promises, like to not hold another job for the period. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have to indicate that they committed no crimes and were aware of none being committed during the period they worked.
It is possible that only honest people might take the deal.
This is SOP for private sector.
No. Big. Deal.
Literally required of every buyout ever taken in the private sector, NO ONE CARES.
bkmk
It’s like giving a bloated, sick hippopotamus an enema. Probably easier to euthanize and let the carcass float on down the river.
“I believe this is quite standard, though I don’t expect ABC to know.”
The media is simply THROWING MUD at everything and hoping that it somehow sticks.
OBVIOUSLY they will have no right to sue, if they VOLUNTEER to take the deal, and the government holds to their end of the deal.
The media didn’t have a problem with giving Big Pharma legal protection from an experimental quaxcine that was touted as “safe and effective”.
They will sign something waiving all rights to sue. This is standard.
I believe they will agree to additional stipulations making them open to prosecution if found to be false. This is also standard, but it may keep some of the less honest from taking the deal. It, sort of, “separates the sheep from the goats”, as it were.
Another thought occurred to me last night. In this particular case, they are agreeing to “work from home”, I believe. This is not just agreeing to not take other work. It should be possible to make “work from home” an endless series of on-line training courses, as I was made to endure in the private sector in the name of anti-white bigotry. Instead of the DIE message, however, the courses could train in patriotism, the nature of paying taxes, the value of being American and things like that. There would be compulsory testing, as I, again, have already endured.
This could be a real game-changer. Few may complete the 8 months, but they might emerge as Americans.
The auto industry has been doing this for years. A lot of my friends took buyouts....
Three ABC writers and multiple editors who passed this apparently dont know that is standard practice. Either liars or complete buffoons.
This is a really bad idea. Let's not go there.
This sort of thing does not foster improved attitudes on any topic. It just increases stress levels. People will die from this. And not necessarily the right people.
We want the soon-to-be-ex Federal employees to leave quietly with as little stress and drama as possible. We should not require them or allow them to do any work at their old jobs, and if they can get a new job during the buyout period, more power to them! They still get to keep all of the buyout money.
They are being forced out. Let them go peacefully.
They can be both!
I suppose I don’t see the problem. These people have probably already been indoctrinated wrongly, as I was. 8 months is not much time to reverse this. The technology exists and it is used wrongly. There is nothing wrong with putting it to good purpose.
These people will need a future as Americans, paying taxes that they used to take. Why not give them a helping hand while you are peeing 8 months of paychecks away?
About 40 years ago or so a brewery in the town I grew up in closed down. I talked with a former employee a some years later. The buyout offer was $50K or free healthcare until for life. He said most people took the $50K. That would be around $167K today. He took the healthcare option and was glad he did because his wife came down with cancer or some other bad medical condition..
The problem is that forced indoctrination is just another stressor. Job hunting is already a very stressful activity with a low chance of success and lots of frustrations. Nothing good comes when you keep piling more stressors on people. Push people too hard and they become dysfunctional and collapse. We don't want that.
Well, maybe some of us do want that. But it is not a good thing.
If you want people to go away, you have got to let go of them when you force them out.
I believe that you overestimate the fragility of the federal worker and the generosity of the American tax payer. What you propose would never offered in the private sector.
Early retirement and severance is a trade, just like the rest of employment. You are paid for work done or not not go to a competitor, or the like - not as a stress-reliever.
These people, I believe, will be paid to “work from home”. What would you imagine them doing for 8 months? There is nothing more stressful than boredom.
Looking for another job. Or starting a small business. The smart ones will do that.
That is an optimistic viewpoint, but some of them will do those things, and some of them will connect with a decent future. Even a small percentage of successful ones will give the others hope and that will blunt their resentment.
Begin forced to watch a quota of indoctrination videos to get severance payments is not going to help them. And it will not help us.
What you propose would never be offered in the private sector.
This isn't the private sector, and it has already been offered.
Rates and magnitudes of change matter. Dumping one million people into the streets with two weeks' notice (or no notice) like many corporate employers do would not go over very well. And by "not going over very well" I mean that we would have major bloodshed.
When people feel that they are losing it all, that soon includes many of their restraints. You do not want to harm too many, too quickly if you want a civil society afterwards.
If you are going to kick a really large number of people out of their positions, they had better believe they have someplace to go and time to get there, or they will turn up in places you don't want them to be.
What has been offered? My post was based on this offering being 8 months paid work-at-home, not 8 months of severance free-pay. I read mention of this, here. The only time I got severance, it was all-at-once, not a continued paycheck.
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