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Anonymous
None of this will happen but it is part of a plan to keep federal employees stressed out and miserable. I’m opting out and not playing. If they want to fire us, I’ll deal with it when it actually happens. Government shutdowns when only one party is in power is a bad look. |
Anonymous
This. Turn off the news. It’s not informing us of anything. It’s just stress. Deal with what comes. Personally, I think it’ll be a regular old shutdown if it comes to it with few additional fireworks but we’ll see. Don’t play the game. |
Anonymous
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So this shutdown could be normally furloughed employees are essentially never coming back?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/politics/white-house-mass-firings-government-shut-down |
Anonymous
This is unclear. Basically almost all of the executive branch has no independent funding except places like PTO. Are they firing all those agencies? Or do they mean anyone not essential and forced to work during shutdown is planned to be RIFFED? |
Anonymous
This is cute. It’s clear that Federal workers are not a priority for Democrats, so this really won’t work as a scare tactic. It will look bad for Dema to sacrifice ACA subsidies for low income Americans to save the jobs of Feds with solid benefits. |
Anonymous
| I dont see it happening. If they wanted to RIF people they would have done it already and to some degree they already have. |
Anonymous
Just stop. Literally no one knows. You are spinning in circles. If that’s what you want to do with your life, um, okay. |
Anonymous
The WH is saying to RIF everyone who is non-essential during the shutdown. Ordinarily, that's almost every federal employee. If this threat sticks around, then during the shutdown, departments and agencies will change their guidance about who is essential to include everyone. Every federal employee will be essential, will work as normal, but without pay until the shutdown ends. I doubt it will even come to that, though. |
Anonymous
Same. Fire us then. Have fun cleaning up the mess. I’ll be figuring my own life out. |
Anonymous
You are blaming Dems when the GOP holds the House, Senate, and the WH? |
Anonymous
Not blaming Dems, just saying as a strategy “ Nice executive branch you got here; it would be a shame if something happened to it.” is not as useful in current conditions as it will further erode the Democratic alignment with the working class. |
Anonymous
That’s not actually what the WH is saying. The OMB memo specifically says to consider RIFs in programs that don’t align with the admin’s priorities. They’ve already RIFed those people. Who is left to fire? |
Anonymous
The Democrats will fold 💯 as they always do but this argument that they have to be weak in order to show the working class they care about them makes no sense whatsoever. Working class people do not care if the federal government stays open. They see themselves as receiving nothing of value from the federal government. A shutdown where they are disabused of that view is not actually going to change their minds, unfortunately. |
Anonymous
| Ok I am on vacation abroad for the next two weeks and I will not be checking my work email or changing my timesheet. |
Anonymous
Honestly that's hilarious! Do they think the one essential SES in charge of HR can run all of HR by herself? Same with Finance? Or any of our program offices? Our essential employees are great, but they aren't the grunts doing the day to day work. In my program office, my SES manager could not even begin to do my job. She only knows about 10% of what I know and do in my job area. Her role is to secure funding and to pass down info from politicals. My role is to keep the program running. |