

4 different unions are suing them over it…
It’s not exactly OPM realizing anything, they’re actively fighting multiple lawsuits over not acknowledging that…
Like, I guess if there was 5 lawsuits it would be more opposite
4 different unions are suing them over it…
It’s not exactly OPM realizing anything, they’re actively fighting multiple lawsuits over not acknowledging that…
Like, I guess if there was 5 lawsuits it would be more opposite
There’s quite a few jobs that aren’t union eligible
Yep, I’m not bargaining unit, so it sucks more than most. And there’s really not many of us
But I still have a shit ton of protections anyways.
there are federal workers that do get fired for doing a bad job.
I’ve fired federal workers, it’s just a year long hassle and giving them every plausible opportunity to improve first.
Even Republican appointed judges are turning against trump policies.
Not everything gets to the supreme court.
Nah, after probation it’s pretty much impossible.
There needs to be like a year of documentation that the employee is just not doing their job.
Because of the union.
That’s why there’s this big push to resign, every tool they have to reduce the federal workforce begins with the word “voluntary”. Probate employees and contracts have reason to be nervous tho.
Even closing USAID, it stops the work they’re doing, but they’re all gonna get huge severance checks or settlements if it really closes. It’s not like the private sector where it’s individuals fighting a billion dollar corparion. It’s multiple unions that are individually some of the largest in the country whose only reason for existence is knowing an incredibly confusing system of decades of regulations…
Versus a couple teenager and college drop out techbros with zero idea what they’re doing.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had offered eight months of severance for voluntary resignations
They absolutely have not.
They said it was possible but they have zero authority to even set an end date.
Like, even pretending we had a budget, OPM can not offer this. It’s like if the DMV told you that the IRS might give out $10k if you file taxes before January 1st.
They said it…
And maybe it’s true.
But it doesn’t mean anything, and parts of it really aren’t possible
Same offer that expires tonight, they were just told they’re not excluded.
Apparently 40k (out of all feds) are taking it, but spread out between now and then those don’t match normal retirement numbers.
So it’s a safe bet the ones taking it were already planning on retiring before then, and not everyone who’s retiring trusts it.
Most agencies can’t even say when someone would be released from work duties if they accept.
If studios gets a tax break, taxpayers are paying for the movie.
Release it for free with no copywriter protections for merchandise and suddenly this whole practice goes away.
What?
Ironically enough, I have legitimately been to Gitmo, no idea how it’s relevant tho…
republicans could have shut that shit down for decades now.
When Clinton deregulated news media and campaign finance, it didn’t just let the rich influence the Dems, it handed the Republican party lock and key to them.
Like, everyone is bitching about Trump’s cuts to federal workers right now, completely ignorant that it took 30 years to recover from Clinton’s 90s cuts…
trump is doing the neoliberal playbook, he’s just too dumb to make people think it’s a solid plan.
Do you think the left thinks everyone on the left is perfect and out for the common people’s good?
Have you not seen the posts from neoliberals taunting progressives over how many Palestinians are being killed?
Have you not seen what happens when people talked about Biden’s flaws?
Now, I wouldn’t expect anyone to watch mainstream cable news, but if you did you’d see it’s filled with people saying it 24/7.
It’s all over the place.
And that’s just politically active people…
Most voters just flat out don’t know what happened 30 years ago, it’s worth people knowing why we’re here so we can leave and never come back.
I occasionally show up to a college alumni game and shit has changed so much.
Like, the drinking culture was out of control, but socials aren’t even really a thing anymore.
Literally the only reason I joined a team back in the day was for the parties. Good on the zoomers for not drinking as much, but it’s not like the old days.
We used to run thru 5-6 kegs on weekday nights, I was 18 years old picking up kegs from a closed liquor store at like 4am because we ran out. And carrying it blocks back the party for it to be floated in 30 minutes.
They change their label a lot, and I always get down voted for mentioning it.
But trump never would have been a candidate if it wasn’t for Clinton de-regulating everything in the 90s in exchange for donations from literally trump and people just like him.
But yeah, they took credit for the dotcom boom and started the trend of billion dollar companies paying zero in tax, because it would “trickle down” by employees taxed on salary…
So yeah, they’re the OG techbros basically.
They also took credit for crime reduction, saying it was due to their incredibly harsh sentencing guidlines, when it was the same reduction every other country got from banning leaded gas.
Neoliberal policy never worked, it just popped up when things were organically getting better. But the people from Bill and Hillary in the 90s are literally Biden/Kamala’s people. Hell, Biden literally was one of them himself, he took credit for the crime bill even. They’ve had a death grip on the party for decades, and almost nothing they’re doing actually helps people.
I’m hopeful Ken Martin breaks and takes the DNC back in a pro worker direction, but we’ll have to see.
If Kamala had won tho, the neoliberals would still be running the party, because she would have gotten to name the chair.
The rich aren’t on our side…
But good luck prying neoliberals away from their teat
“those who played with me know that I do not condone being gay for women in rugby.”
I’ve never been to Fiji…
But I can’t imagine making it to a national women’s team and still being bigoted against lesbians. Its not exactly a rare thing to run across.
Like, at least in America, it’s incredibly common for LGBT to play rugby. Hell, we had a gay pornstar on my men’s college team for a while, we gave him as much shit as anyone else on the team, but rugby culture has always been incredibly accepting.
Doesn’t matter who you are, if you’re dumb enough to join the team, you’re a part of the team.
I come from hillbillies, so technically I owned a rifle and a shotgun before I was ever born.
But I never went thru the hassle of getting a CCW and small pistol to carry.
But shits fucking crazy these days. Like I’ve lived in some rough areas, and had plenty of people show me their gun as intimidation since I was a punk teenager. But I was never seriously worried about getting shot, people had something to lose and I was never doing something that was worth it.
Nowadays people with a good job and family are just firing off over incredibly minor shit.
Everyone is just willing to throw it all away over nothing.
I really think we’re gonna find out COVID caused similar issues to lead poisoning even among minor cases with no symptoms. People just have no chill, and everyone and their mother is strapped here now.
I also got my gas mask with NATO cartridges
You really don’t need it. Tear gas in an open environment is not bad, you move 10 feet away for a few minutes.
People will tell you tennis rackets is the move, but that could lead to serious charges if used to hit one back at cops.
What you need is buckets. They fire a can, you cap it. If you do have to retreat, someone will likely (completely on accident and without any malice) knock it over releasing the tear gas and slowing the cops.
Not just because of bugs either, pretty sure that shit is like $60 on steam.
Got my CCW after trump won in 2016, didn’t end up needing it
Got plates after this one, I’m not going to be a protest without it and a rifle.
It sounds like an escalation, but a show of force prevents a lot of violence, and it works especially well on the people we’re protesting. Like, that’s not a dig. Due to brain differences it’s harder to win over the right by appealing to empathy or facts and logic.
Everyone that works on is already mostly on our side.
What works on conservatives is fear of immediate consequences. You think a trumpet would drive into protesters when a dozen would actually open fire and make them legit “fear for their lives”?
Hell, they overrun the Capitol because cops just had Glocks and riot gear…
These days a protest ain’t safe unless people are posted up.
Were you not aware Ken Martin has been DNC chair less than a week?
When a console exclusive ports to PC, it resets the clock…
Rational people pay attention to unarmed peaceful protestors…
But the people in power aren’t rational, and the boots on the ground attack if protestors are unarmed…
Vests and rifles are going to be necessary optics at protests for the foreseeable future.
Quick edit:
Obligatory, “I think my draco might be gay”
Well, if he tried to take the fork, he’s a forking idiot.