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20,000 Swamp creatures have already accepted Trump's buyout
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20,000 Swamp creatures have already accepted Trump's buyout

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Feb 4, 2025, 1:25 PM
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That's about 3 billion in savings per year.

More to come.

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At an average salary of $150K, thats going to be some of the most


Feb 4, 2025, 1:29 PM
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tenured, and/or those who were going to retire in a few years.

If your passport needs renewing, or you need help with your flood insurance, or anything else the federal gov't is involved in..might want to get that taken care of in the next few months.

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Re: At an average salary of $150K, thats going to be some of the most

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Feb 4, 2025, 1:34 PM
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20k people probably leave the fed govt over any several month period anyway since it employes many times that. Pretending these 20k will suddenly cause chaos is disingenuous. However left wing trash that work in big govt are good at maximizing the pain of any cuts on regular people so never say never.

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Which is it?

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Feb 4, 2025, 1:40 PM
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1) The DOGE buyout is causing people to leave and saving the taxpayers' money

or

2) The number of people leaving is normal and the buyout is doing nothing

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Good lord, you're a child.


Feb 4, 2025, 1:45 PM [ in reply to Re: At an average salary of $150K, thats going to be some of the most ]
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Your sweeping generalizations are exhausting.

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Here's what I don't get. He sent that buyout offer to every single federal


Feb 4, 2025, 1:57 PM [ in reply to Re: At an average salary of $150K, thats going to be some of the most ]
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employee. Kind of surprised only 20K took him up on the offer. But my main concern is WHERE are those 20K coming from? You may have one agency severely understaffed, and overworked, and 80% of them may leave, rendering them in capable of doing whatever it is they do.

Please, name a company that sends buyout offers to every employee? RIFS are usually targeted to less important, and/or underperforming departments. You don't offer buyouts to the entire company. Even Elon Musk, at Twitter, didn't offer a company-wide buyout for all employees. He just fired 80% of the employees, but this was after he had at least figured out who was important and who wasn't.

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I remember when Clemson did that to DCIT

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Feb 4, 2025, 2:27 PM
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The only people that took it were the good ones we didn't want to leave.

None of the retired who came back for the 2nd time took it.

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Well, DCIT is one department, so that makes sense.


Feb 4, 2025, 3:06 PM
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But you'd never see Clemson offer buyouts to all University employees.

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Is that when the purduites invaded IT?***


Feb 4, 2025, 7:46 PM [ in reply to I remember when Clemson did that to DCIT ]
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That requires effort, which they are not willing to put in.


Feb 4, 2025, 4:42 PM [ in reply to Here's what I don't get. He sent that buyout offer to every single federal ]
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They don’t care about what the impacts are. Same as the Jan 6 pardons, instead of putting in the effort to pardon only the ones that weren’t violent, Trump said F it, release them all. Their plan is to be a bull in a china shop, break a bunch of stuff, and worry about maybe fixing it later. MAGA won’t care if there are negative impacts, all they care about is having less of the nebulous “swamp.”

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My company did that about 10 years ago. They wound up having to hire many


Feb 4, 2025, 4:57 PM [ in reply to Here's what I don't get. He sent that buyout offer to every single federal ]
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folks back. The offer was X weeks pay for every 2X years worked - or something like that.

The company stumbled a bit for a few months, but eventually thrived...

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Re: My company did that about 10 years ago. They wound up having to hire many


Feb 4, 2025, 5:34 PM
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I’ve known companies who’ve done it as well. And end up having to hire people, but at a much lower cost. Win win I guess.

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Re: My company did that about 10 years ago. They wound up having to hire many


Feb 4, 2025, 7:55 PM
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Musk has a bunch of kids doing this one. God help us all

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20,000 people that are about to get screwed.


Feb 4, 2025, 1:42 PM
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Besides, isn't the plan to replace the "swamp creatures" with Trump loyalists, which is so much better, and apparently costs the same?

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I don't remember you feeling the same for keystone pipeline employees.***

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Feb 4, 2025, 2:56 PM
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Re: 20,000 people that are about to get screwed.


Feb 4, 2025, 7:48 PM [ in reply to 20,000 people that are about to get screwed. ]
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I've seen the so called contract. #12 - I promise if I get screw me over by being forced to resign, I cannot sue the federal government.

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Re: 20,000 Swamp creatures have already accepted Trump's buyout


Feb 4, 2025, 2:05 PM
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The only ones.accepting the offer are the productive ones with the skills to make more money in the private sector. The low performers aren't willingly going anywhere, so that's who we'll be stuck with. Maybe that's the point? Make government even more dysfunctional and less eff we have an excuse to slash it even more.

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Re: 20,000 Swamp creatures have already accepted Trump's buyout


Feb 4, 2025, 2:05 PM
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Make government even more dysfunctional and less efficient so we have an excuse to slash it even more.

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^^^ Clueless, it's the ones close to retiring or those on 1 or 2 yr probation


Feb 4, 2025, 7:52 PM [ in reply to Re: 20,000 Swamp creatures have already accepted Trump's buyout ]
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Please get you facts straight

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amazing***

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Feb 4, 2025, 6:53 PM
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Re: amazing***


Feb 4, 2025, 7:20 PM
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Those 20,000 ( so far) we're planning to retire soon anyway. So the new regime will now pay them to retire early. Brilliant!
Personally, I wish 100% of federal employees would accept this stupid "offer".
What a cluster f... that would be.
Getting what you voted for idiots. Enjoy.

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If you knew the situation that's going on and experiencing it first hand


Feb 4, 2025, 7:44 PM
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you'd keep you mouth shut. I pray for you.

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I've been in this exact same situation in private industry ... why should govt


Feb 4, 2025, 7:47 PM
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employees be immune to layoffs ? Why are they special ??

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Re: I've been in this exact same situation in private industry ... why should govt


Feb 4, 2025, 7:50 PM
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Like I said, if you knew the facts, obviously you are clueless. So for once try speaking with knowledge of the subject instead of your hatred.

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Re: I've been in this exact same situation in private industry ... why should govt


Feb 4, 2025, 8:54 PM
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Righttttttt. And YOU, and only you, "know the facts".
What a fool you must be.

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Re: I've been in this exact same situation in private industry ... why should govt


Feb 5, 2025, 4:38 AM
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Fact, I know a hell of a lot more than you, you had a clueless. You probably drive a Tesla and worship him take out the E and you only have a dog

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Thats only 1% - but theres still a few more days***


Feb 4, 2025, 7:45 PM
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