On the contrary, when private sector CEOs sends in McKinsey to ask stupid questions, employees are expected to answer, not complain and say they only report to their direct managers and HR. We get it, federal bureaucrats don’t respect the President’s authority. Fine, but there sre consequences to insubordination. The idea that taxpayer-funded work-from-home bureaucrats are “above” having to send one email a week to HQ is hilarious. Everyone is replaceable, especially this coddled group of Democratic bureaucrats. After 30 years without layoffs and 5 years of working from home, they should all be fired and replaced with younger people with better attitudes. Elected Democrats “resisting” layoffs and cost cuts has been an epic fail. Not only did they fall into Trump’s trap, they face-planted into it. Now for the cherry on top. *Protesting* the end of direct deposit of taxpayer funds into their bank accounts! |
what positive things has Trump done for this country at any time?? |
I would not compare what most private companies do to this completely burn it down to the ground approach from Trump and musk. They could care less about saving money. it’s all about sticking it to the people that didn’t vote for him. |
Hello, fascist! 👋 You sound like you’re as good at business as our failed-business-leader faux president. |
You’re the Trump supporter, fake Dem, with your list of problematic talking points. Such a tell. |
You've clearly been coddled for most of your career. Walk in one day and have your CEO call a meeting and say that we're reducing 25% of headcount. HR is teed up right now, Today is Tuesday, your list is due Friday, conversations start with affected employees one week from today, with RIF effective immediately. No exceptions, every department is losing 25%. The crazy part is, we shed 25% of our workforce that fast, never missed a beat, and nothing changed. The only thing that changed was HR got out of the way, so we got rid of the deadwood and the troublemakers. |
oh please. I have gone through layoffs at my company. but if you want to even begin to have a serious discussion, you can’t think for one minute what they’re doing is measured and methodical. Trump wants to stick it to the people that didn’t vote for him. No reason to make this complicated when it’s very simple. |
Dems: “We have no problem with layoffs and spending cuts, we just don’t like the ‘process.’”
Taxpayers: “Oh really, did you do any layoffs or cut any costs in the past 25 years?” Dems: “ Um….uh…. um….you must be a stupid racist mouth breather!” |
Guys like you should not wear T-shirts. They highlight your moobs. Back to the basement, incel. |
Dems: "Did you know that Trump increased the federal workforce by 2% in just the last year of his first term?" MAGA mouth breathers: "Biden was bad!" Dems: "If it was so important to Trump and MAGA, why didn't he do this his first term?" MAGA mouth breathers: "Biden was worse!" Dems: "If it's so important to you to cut the federal deficit, why is Trump on par to INCREASE the deficit this year, even with the mass firings. It's because he wants to give breaks to billionaires." MAGA mouth breathers: "Biden loves billionaires!" Dems: "FAFO MAGA cultists!" |
As usual, the Dem version is more complex and less compelling than the Republican version. Try yours out with swing voters, see how you do.
We could combine them: R: “Time to layoff government bureaucrats” D: “Noooooooooooo” R: “See, Dems are opposed to gov’t cost-cutting ” D: “It’s complicated” |
I have zero problems providing weekly updates of my performance but DOGE and Musk aren’t in my chain of command. Musk isn’t the head of DOGE and does not have a “need to know” what I’m working on. The DOGE bros are also not in my chain of command. It would be highly irregular for my agency head to ask me for my weekly duties… he would ask my chain of command. |
NP And let’s not overlook the most basic fact that this is micro-managing and a terrible way to manage any workplace. Elon is an idiot groomed to feel special, and now high on drugs that exacerbates his inflated and undeserved self-worth and ability. He was a bad manager in his own companies, and he’s even worse high on drugs managing people whose work he doesn’t understand at all. |
You’re both wrong, and the coddled partisan civil servants are wrong too. Trump has every right to empower Elon Musk to ask any question of any employee in the executive branch. Whining about it reveals entitlement, and disloyalty. People displaying this attitude deserve to be fired. And their political party deserves the loss in public support that it’s experiencing. Sorry. Executive branch employees serve at the pleasure and discretion of the duly elected President. |
Most don’t actually. You’re thinking of political appointees. But they all swear to serve the Constitution, not the president. He’s just there to execute the laws cong passes. That’s it. |