Summary

Federal workers condemned a Trump administration email urging mass resignations, calling it a coercive and legally dubious move influenced by Elon Muskā€™s cost-cutting approach.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered ā€œdeferred resignationsā€ while warning remaining employees of potential layoffs.

Critics, including unions and Democratic lawmakers, warned of widespread disruption to essential services.

The emailā€™s phrasing echoed Muskā€™s past layoffs at Twitter, raising concerns about the administrationā€™s intentions.

Senator Tim Kaine urged workers not to accept the offer, citing Trumpā€™s history of broken promises.

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    1 day ago

    It would be a mighty shame if the entire secret service took that buyout and got replaced by Italian plumbers. A mighty shame indeed

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      Dude, if he gets assassinated and it comes out that the assassinā€™s name is Mario, I may actually develop a belief in god.

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        Problem is that god is a 13 yo boy, hyperdimensional gamer who is beaten by his step-dad, was rejected by his crush who also happened to be trans and he didnā€™t know it, and is procrastinating on a book report due in two in-game decades.

        It wonā€™t be so funny when he finally gets around to reading The Giver and decides thatā€™d work for this campaign.

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      They didnā€™t send it to the secret service or the boarder patrol or ICE. I think also the post office didnā€™t get the letter.

      I wish there was some shaudenfruede to be had, but there is none.