Posted on 02/26/2025 9:01:18 AM PST by Red Badger
(DCNF)—The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will allow ousted employees 15 minutes to retrieve personal effects from the agency’s headquarters Thursday and Friday, the agency posted in a Tuesday notice.
Former employees will be “escorted to their workspace” and undergo “x-ray machine screening upon entry” to the Ronald Reagan Building headquarters before gathering their items, according to USAID’s website. Staff were also warned against bringing any “prohibited items” — including, but not limited to, billy clubs, brass knuckles, martial arts weapons, axes or hatchets, BB guns, bows and arrows, dynamite or chlorine for pools and spas — with them during their allotted retrieval window.
The announcement comes as President Donald Trump, and with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), appears to advance toward the final phases of dismantling USAID.
“This Thursday and Friday ONLY — on February 27 and 28, 2025 — USAID staff will have one opportunity to retrieve their personal belongings … Staff will be given approximately 15 minutes to complete this retrieval and must be finished removing items within their time slot only,” the instructions read. “Staff with a significant amount of personal belongings to retrieve must be cognizant of time; however, flexibility may be granted in select circumstances with the approval of the Office of Security.”
The agency warned former staff that if they fail to collect their belongings during their designated timeslots, the items could be damaged, lost or otherwise stored in a government warehouse.
“If staff are unable to retrieve their items, and do not wish to have another staff member retrieve items in their absence, personal items will be packed by GSA and sent to a warehouse for collection at a later date and time,” the notice reads. “GSA cannot guarantee that personal items not claimed during this time will be free from damage or loss, but will take all precautionary measures to safeguard items.”
USAID’s instructions come after a federal judge allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its staffing purges Friday, rejecting a union-led effort to temporarily halt the president’s plan to dismiss virtually all of the agency’s worldwide staff. The ruling allowed Trump to move forward with firing an additional 1,600 U.S.-based employees Monday, the Associated Press reported. The humanitarian agency, now led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, plans to reduce its global workforce from over 10,000 to 294, according to Reuters.
DOGE cites USAID cuts as the top contributor to its reported $65 billion in federal savings.
“Get your $h!7 and go.”
should we replace the term “going postal” with “going bureaucrat”?
DOGE cites USAID cuts as the top contributor to its reported $65 billion in federal savings.
I'm guessing there were threats issued by former staff.
This standard stuff at any company with layoffs.
It’s not pleasant but it deters retaliation.
Double security—there are a lot of enemy actors in this group.
I noticed that rifles, pistols, and revolvers were not mentioned. Nor muskets. Nor grenades. Nor MANPADs. Nor RPGs.
No more money for family friendly drag shows in Colombia? Sniff...
Box it up and fed-ex it.
Nor tactical nuclear weapons.
Government workers are being treated like everyone else at this point.
Reduction in Force is exactly like this - here’s your hat, bye. No milling around. You are gone.
“I’m guessing there were threats issued by former staff.”
If there were threats this administration is doing what has become expected. Instead of letting them retrieve ther garbage they should have been ARRESTED!
BTTT
reported on cnn, “they treated us like criminals.”
someone in our community put up a sign that says welcome, we are a nuclear free zone. We had to all give up our nuclear bombs before we could move in.
That was five minutes more than I was given when I was fired from two jobs.
That’s right, when the job is gone, there is no reason to be there.
Maybe letting them get their stuff to see if they show and arrest them instead of trying to catch them somewhere else.
Knives would likely be the first choice of anyone choosing to carry something to cause trouble and they’re not named - must be in the “prohibited items.”
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