State Dept - are RIFs coming on Friday?

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Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

What consequences do you think Marco Rubio faces if Department morale is low? Do you think that gets him in trouble with his boss?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

What consequences do you think Marco Rubio faces if Department morale is low? Do you think that gets him in trouble with his boss?

Oooh it will drop further you say? Oh no

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

What consequences do you think Marco Rubio faces if Department morale is low? Do you think that gets him in trouble with his boss?

I see you’ve never managed anyone. You are asking what consequences someone faces when their entire workforce has rock bottom morale? Ok, I’ll answer. Low morale leads to lower performance. I’ve never seen an administration (other than Trump 1 and 2) walk into the WH disparaging their employees, openly hostile to their staff (who has been working since Election Day to find ways their agencies’ mission promotes their new boss’ priorities). Feds are professionals and look past that to do their jobs. It is so strange to meet with political appointees for the first time and see the open hostility and complete distrust of people they’ve never met, of people whose entire careers are have been constant adjusting to changing policy priorities of either party. I was a fed but left during Trump 1, not because of politics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

Morale is normally a 2 at State without a RIF.

This and that is the point of everything they are doing. Keep the good ones and bring in fresh in a bit.

Nope nope nope. It was all a political stunt. They RIFd.good people. They RIFd people working on mission critical work. They RIFd good people working on mission critical work. Whoever made the decisions should be the one fired because there was clearly little actual strategy behind it. My office did not have any RIFs but morale still has gone from an 8 to maybe a 1.

Well, pretentiousness has dropped from a 10 to a 2.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

Morale is normally a 2 at State without a RIF.

This and that is the point of everything they are doing. Keep the good ones and bring in fresh in a bit.

Nope nope nope. It was all a political stunt. They RIFd.good people. They RIFd people working on mission critical work. They RIFd good people working on mission critical work. Whoever made the decisions should be the one fired because there was clearly little actual strategy behind it. My office did not have any RIFs but morale still has gone from an 8 to maybe a 1.

Well, pretentiousness has dropped from a 10 to a 2.

Sorry you never could pass that darn FSOT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

What consequences do you think Marco Rubio faces if Department morale is low? Do you think that gets him in trouble with his boss?

I see you’ve never managed anyone. You are asking what consequences someone faces when their entire workforce has rock bottom morale? Ok, I’ll answer. Low morale leads to lower performance. I’ve never seen an administration (other than Trump 1 and 2) walk into the WH disparaging their employees, openly hostile to their staff (who has been working since Election Day to find ways their agencies’ mission promotes their new boss’ priorities). Feds are professionals and look past that to do their jobs. It is so strange to meet with political appointees for the first time and see the open hostility and complete distrust of people they’ve never met, of people whose entire careers are have been constant adjusting to changing policy priorities of either party. I was a fed but left during Trump 1, not because of politics.

Lower performance is what they want. They want an excuse to fire more people. What aren’t you understanding here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

What consequences do you think Marco Rubio faces if Department morale is low? Do you think that gets him in trouble with his boss?

I see you’ve never managed anyone. You are asking what consequences someone faces when their entire workforce has rock bottom morale? Ok, I’ll answer. Low morale leads to lower performance. I’ve never seen an administration (other than Trump 1 and 2) walk into the WH disparaging their employees, openly hostile to their staff (who has been working since Election Day to find ways their agencies’ mission promotes their new boss’ priorities). Feds are professionals and look past that to do their jobs. It is so strange to meet with political appointees for the first time and see the open hostility and complete distrust of people they’ve never met, of people whose entire careers are have been constant adjusting to changing policy priorities of either party. I was a fed but left during Trump 1, not because of politics.

Lower performance is what they want. They want an excuse to fire more people. What aren’t you understanding here?

+1 Did you not read the quote from Russell Vought, who was confirmed by your democratically elected Congress, where he wanted to inflict trauma on the federal workforce? All in the name of his self-proclaimed Christian nationalism.

[Anonymous]

And they want people to quit on their own accord so they don't have to pay out.

They are horrible people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

Morale is normally a 2 at State without a RIF.

This and that is the point of everything they are doing. Keep the good ones and bring in fresh in a bit.

Nope nope nope. It was all a political stunt. They RIFd.good people. They RIFd people working on mission critical work. They RIFd good people working on mission critical work. Whoever made the decisions should be the one fired because there was clearly little actual strategy behind it. My office did not have any RIFs but morale still has gone from an 8 to maybe a 1.

Well, pretentiousness has dropped from a 10 to a 2.

Sorry you never could pass that darn FSOT.

You must be confusing me with Meghan Markle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

What consequences do you think Marco Rubio faces if Department morale is low? Do you think that gets him in trouble with his boss?

I see you’ve never managed anyone. You are asking what consequences someone faces when their entire workforce has rock bottom morale? Ok, I’ll answer. Low morale leads to lower performance. I’ve never seen an administration (other than Trump 1 and 2) walk into the WH disparaging their employees, openly hostile to their staff (who has been working since Election Day to find ways their agencies’ mission promotes their new boss’ priorities). Feds are professionals and look past that to do their jobs. It is so strange to meet with political appointees for the first time and see the open hostility and complete distrust of people they’ve never met, of people whose entire careers are have been constant adjusting to changing policy priorities of either party. I was a fed but left during Trump 1, not because of politics.

Lower performance is what they want. They want an excuse to fire more people. What aren’t you understanding here?

I get it but at some point, they do have some sort of an agenda and they do need people to run it. People will always need passports for example, so they should probably at least keep the peasants who work on those happy, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:60 days for civil service. Foreign service get 120.

Do those 120 days count toward retirement? Spouse doesn't want to retire but will be 50 soon

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agency-wide morale is at maybe a 2 out of 10. Marco better get it together or it will drop further. Clearly, the A Team isn’t running things for sure.

Morale is normally a 2 at State without a RIF.

This and that is the point of everything they are doing. Keep the good ones and bring in fresh in a bit.

Nope nope nope. It was all a political stunt. They RIFd.good people. They RIFd people working on mission critical work. They RIFd good people working on mission critical work. Whoever made the decisions should be the one fired because there was clearly little actual strategy behind it. My office did not have any RIFs but morale still has gone from an 8 to maybe a 1.

^ +100