Summary
Donald Trumpās Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has reportedly hired a 21-year-old senior advisor and a freshly graduated high schooler, showing the administrationās unconventional hiring approach.
Many new appointees have ties to Elon Musk, including OPMās chief of staff Amanda Scales, formerly of xAI.
The administration is restructuring government staffing, influenced by Muskās cost-cutting model.
A White House memo, echoing Muskās 2022 Twitter overhaul, offers buyouts to employees unwilling to meet new performance standards.
Elonās work force reduction method is simple. Force everyone to return to office full time; increase hours and responsibilities with no corresponding increase in pay; and offer severance packages to employees who wonāt put up with this treatment, then donāt actually pay them.
I hope the governments workersā union is strong and has some teeth. Theyāre going to need it.
Very similar to the corporate play book.
Yeah, it is really fucked because most people vote no for this type of bull shit in 2012. No one wanted a Mitt Romney style corporate divide and sell off style of āgovernmentā. But fuck here we are
The best part? The conservative propaganda machine made them all believe that the corporate pillaging wouldnāt happen, and they would be taken care of, despite all available evidence to the contrary.