The reason that I suggested North Dakota was to make them miserable as you suggested. Whats your method? Civil Service
laws preclude a mass firing.
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But they do NOT preclude huge REDUCTIONS IN FORCE (RIFs) and associated position downgrades. Put some fear into these USELESS bureaucrats/economic parasites.
You can’t sue to get your job back if the position has been eliminated.
Only problem with those policies is, the senior person has the ability to bump the junior person out of a job, even if the junior person is someone that should stay. But, there are ways around all of that, as well. Just takes a little work.