You wait until ALL of your avenues are reasonably exhausted—
and one of the factors is taking the impact on that staff
into consideration.
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Exactly. You have many others that have to make plans as their
lives, work, family and many other things are being impacted.
They have to make plans also for the future.
Oh, just stop.
The future of our country hinges upon this and you work to deliver what the voters asked of and voted for you to the very end.
Staffers will be fine. Absolute worst case they get unemployment for a bit before their next well-paying gig.
You do not hand the country over to communists because a few staffers want to hurry up and get on their next gravy train.