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Buyout Offer's Unintended Consequences [1]
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Date: 2025-01-29
Just a quick update on the buyout offer Musk/Trump made to federal employees. Spoiler alert: it’s not going well. Below are comments from a reddit group comprised of federal employees. To summarize: they ain’t havin’ it.
This is a Musk email. A twitter post noticed this: "NEW: The memo sent to government employees this evening offering them buyouts very closely mirrors an email Musk sent to Twitter employees in 2022 — down to the same subject line "A Fork in the Road."
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Because they thought we’d all quit. The best way to stick it to them is to show up like we’ve been doing. I’m going to keep doing my job until someone drags me out of me POD
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I was chill and laid back prior. Now I’m digging my heels in out of spite. I’m a big time hater and being petty is my favorite thing to do.
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I've never been more motivated to stay. Before the "buyout" memo, I was ready to go job hunting, but then a revelation hit. I took an oath under this position to the American people and leaving my job under the current state would be failing to maintain my oath as civil servant.
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The buyout screams desperation. The response on RTO wasn’t what they were hoping for.
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There’s plenty more where that came from, but suffice to say this move has backfired bigly. It’s been said elsewhere but bears repeating: the only thing we have going for us is their incompetence. To that I say, may they remain forever dumb.
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