Trump Fires Officials, Mass Firings Catch-All | Elon email - respond or lose your job PART 2

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superrific said:
Did not see Kash Patel as the voice of reason.

Unless he's just saving the opportunity to fire them himself.
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Make no mistake, all these fools will be looking for ways to shiv Elon soon. He's a cancer worse than Trump himself and ALL of us will want him on a pike in front of the Capitol before this is over.

Mark my words that the fanboys on here will be first in line with the pitchforks soon but they'll never admit just how wrong they were.
 
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“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” — Trump budget director Russell Vought, in a private speech
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What Just Happened: Musk-OPM Send Email to Federal Employees Asking for Five Accomplishments​


www.justsecurity.org

What Just Happened: Musk-OPM Send Email to Federal Employees Asking for Five Accomplishments

The OPM's recent email and online threat by Elon Musk demonstrate that resignations and layoffs will continue — whether lawful or not.
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“…The [OPC] email did not repeat Musk’s threat equating a non-response to a resignation. Nor did the email provide any consequences about what would happen if employees missed the Monday evening deadline.

Screenshots sent by some anonymous federal employees showed that the email was marked as “suspicious.” Other anonymous federal employees reported they had not received the email, but it was unclear whether OPM intentionally excluded these employees.

What’s more, some individuals outside the executive branch reportedly received the email, including at least one federal judge and some law clerks. Some agencies have reportedly told employees to “pause on any responses” as of this writing.

… The OPM email does not specify how the agency intends to use the information it collects from employees. One possibility is that OPM intends for agencies to use this data to implement Executive Order 14210. Executive Order 14210 instructs agency heads to “develop a data-driven plan, in consultation with its DOGE Team Lead, to ensure new career appointment hires are in highest-need areas.”

The Director of OPM is in charge of overseeing the creation of these plans. The same executive order instructs agency heads to initiate “large-scalereductions in force (RIFs).” RIFs are governedby specific rules, which require the agency to classify employees and remove them based on their order of tenure. It is possible that agencies may use the data collected from these emails to make retention and removal decisions.

Yet these emails alone would be an insufficient basis for an RIF because the process requires significantly more information about the functions performed by each employee.

More broadly, the email raises concerns about the efficacy of the Trump administration’s efforts to cut the federal workforce.

Five bullet points describing one work week—a week that included a federal holiday—cannot capture the importance of the work performed by most federal employees. And it certainly cannot capture the functions of those federal employees already placed on administrative leave, who were explicitly prohibited from performing their job duties during the week in question. …”
 
nycfan said:

What Just Happened: Musk-OPM Send Email to Federal Employees Asking for Five Accomplishments​


www.justsecurity.org

What Just Happened: Musk-OPM Send Email to Federal Employees Asking for Five Accomplishments

The OPM's recent email and online threat by Elon Musk demonstrate that resignations and layoffs will continue — whether lawful or not.
www.justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org


“…The [OPC] email did not repeat Musk’s threat equating a non-response to a resignation. Nor did the email provide any consequences about what would happen if employees missed the Monday evening deadline.

Screenshots sent by some anonymous federal employees showed that the email was marked as “suspicious.” Other anonymous federal employees reported they had not received the email, but it was unclear whether OPM intentionally excluded these employees.

What’s more, some individuals outside the executive branch reportedly received the email, including at least one federal judge and some law clerks. Some agencies have reportedly told employees to “pause on any responses” as of this writing.

… The OPM email does not specify how the agency intends to use the information it collects from employees. One possibility is that OPM intends for agencies to use this data to implement Executive Order 14210. Executive Order 14210 instructs agency heads to “develop a data-driven plan, in consultation with its DOGE Team Lead, to ensure new career appointment hires are in highest-need areas.”

The Director of OPM is in charge of overseeing the creation of these plans. The same executive order instructs agency heads to initiate “large-scalereductions in force (RIFs).” RIFs are governedby specific rules, which require the agency to classify employees and remove them based on their order of tenure. It is possible that agencies may use the data collected from these emails to make retention and removal decisions.

Yet these emails alone would be an insufficient basis for an RIF because the process requires significantly more information about the functions performed by each employee.

More broadly, the email raises concerns about the efficacy of the Trump administration’s efforts to cut the federal workforce.

Five bullet points describing one work week—a week that included a federal holiday—cannot capture the importance of the work performed by most federal employees. And it certainly cannot capture the functions of those federal employees already placed on administrative leave, who were explicitly prohibited from performing their job duties during the week in question. …”
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Could an agency treat an employee’s failure to respond to the OPM email as a resignation? ​

No. The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has stated that “[t]he touchstone of the analysis of whether a retirement or resignation is voluntary is whether the employee made an informed choice. A decision made ‘with blinders on,’ based on misinformation or lack of information, cannot be binding as a matter of fundamental fairness and due process.”

A non-response to an email—especially an email with a deadline of one business day—does not evidence a “choice.” Moreover, a resignation must be requested by the employee—not the employer. The MSPB has jurisdiction to consider whether a resignation was, in fact, voluntary. I fully anticipate that the MSPB would not classify a removal pursuant to this email as a “voluntary resignation.” Were the Board somehow to fail to do so, the federal courts would likely overturn that decision.

Moreover, classifying a non-response as a resignation seeks to evade the civil service protections for performance-based firings. The MSPB lacks jurisdiction over issues arising from voluntary resignations except for determining whether the resignation was, in fact, voluntary. Yet employees removed from their position by the agency enjoy certain due process protections. The agency must provide notice and an opportunity for the employee to respond. The employee may then challenge their removal before the MSPB. The Trump administration cannot deprive employees of their due process rights through loopholes. …”
 
genevabuck said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.</p>&mdash; Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) <a href="">February 23, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Truth. Although I suspect it won't go over very well with our resident Trumpers and bosiders.
 
I have received this email. I have also received instructions not to respond until I receive further guidance from management. FWIW, the forced resignation for not responding is not included in the official email. It’s simply a request for information on what I did at work for the last week. I’ll just wait to see what communication I receive from union and management on Monday. What a strange time it is.
 
Well if you're not leeching off the system it should be easy to respond. Alot of govt workers show up everyday and add no value to govt work, and are wasting money.
 
Silence Dogood said:
Its out there, I'm not going to keep babying you. I also seen it with my own eyes. And I know that you know it exists, you just don't like who's leading the charge.
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Good, hard-working people are getting fired for no damn good reason by a couple of worthless billionaire plutocrats so they can give themselves massive tax breaks and you're here gloating over their firing. Seriously, if you're a troll this isn't the place to be trolling, and if you're serious you're a miserable excuse for a human being and don't have a shred of compassion in your body.
 
wmheel1287 said:
What 5 bullet points would you say describe what you accomplished last week?
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Yep. If our Trumper posters love what Elon is doing so much maybe they need to be required to send us a detailed summary of what they do at work each week to justify their continued employment. But of course if a liberal asked them to do it they would scream bloody murder and have a fit.
 

Air traffic controllers among federal employees who received request to justify their work​



“The Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic controllers received Office of Personnel Management’s Saturday email asking employees to explain what work they did last week — though it is not clear how and when the understaffed workforce will be able to respond, their union told CNN.

“This weekend’s mass email is an unnecessary distraction to a fragile system,” the National Air Traffic Controllers Association told CNN in a statement.

… Some context: Shortages of air traffic controllersand FAA infrastructure issues have come to light in recent weeks following multiple midair collisions and plane crashes.

And as Trump and Musk ramp up their efforts to shrink the federal government, hundreds of probationary FAA workers were fired.

The country’s more than 10,000 air traffic controllers are already working mandatory six-day weeks of ten-hour shifts. …”
 
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