Did any Feds resign?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The WTOP survey shows 11% planning to resign and a similar percentage considering it. I am a govt contractor and read the OPM email. It seemed written well enough and I can’t say I understand the extreme skepticism and suspicion here. Take it, don’t take it. If you truly believe the Federal Government is a lean, well-oiled machine, you’re confused.

Hi troll

Mr troll, sitting under his bridge, flinging poop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The WTOP survey shows 11% planning to resign and a similar percentage considering it. I am a govt contractor and read the OPM email. It seemed written well enough and I can’t say I understand the extreme skepticism and suspicion here. Take it, don’t take it. If you truly believe the Federal Government is a lean, well-oiled machine, you’re confused.

The poll question was: “At this point, are you considering taking OPM's "deferred resignation" offer?” Reading is fundamental.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The WTOP survey shows 11% planning to resign and a similar percentage considering it. I am a govt contractor and read the OPM email. It seemed written well enough and I can’t say I understand the extreme skepticism and suspicion here. Take it, don’t take it. If you truly believe the Federal Government is a lean, well-oiled machine, you’re confused.

The poll question was: “At this point, are you considering taking OPM's "deferred resignation" offer?” Reading is fundamental.

They aren't any better at trolling than they are at writing the emails. Lame amateur town.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And this isn’t even how you resign. None of it makes any sense. The whole thing was dreamed up by some teenager on ketamine.

It was someone in Ketamine, just not a teenager.

It's actually literally a teenager

https://fortune.com/2025/01/29/top-hires-donald-trump-office-of-personnel-management-high-school-graduate-gen-z-elon-musk/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wtop has a poll...
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/01/survey-most-feds-say-opms-resignation-offer-too-uncertain-to-accept/

Hardly a reliable survey, but responses sound about right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And this isn’t even how you resign. None of it makes any sense. The whole thing was dreamed up by some teenager on ketamine.

It was someone in Ketamine, just not a teenager.

It's actually literally a teenager

https://fortune.com/2025/01/29/top-hires-donald-trump-office-of-personnel-management-high-school-graduate-gen-z-elon-musk/

"The 21-year-old will serve as a senior advisor to Scott Kupor, Trump’s pick for the director of OPM, and the newly graduated high schooler will directly report to the agency’s chief of staff Amanda Scales, according to the outlet."

So serious business
Much wow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you know of anybody who actually replied to the email and resigned? Everything I read suggests that it’s a very bad idea because there’s no guarantee of anything. I wonder how many people have taken the bait.

I know 2 people that will probably take it. They are both retirement eligible this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know of anybody who actually replied to the email and resigned? Everything I read suggests that it’s a very bad idea because there’s no guarantee of anything. I wonder how many people have taken the bait.

I know 2 people that will probably take it. They are both retirement eligible this year.

If anything actually does come out of taking this, it's going to be costing the federal government MORE money. The people considering it were planning on leaving anyway, and they're looking to see if they can take a little more with them.

Fair enough, but it would have been cheaper for "OPM" just to shut up.

[Anonymous]

Everyone I know is a fed and no one has resigned.

[Anonymous]

I am seriously considering it. I’m retirement eligible, and I really don’t want this drama. I would only do it if the admin leave is real, so waiting for agency guidance. The agency has been silent on the deferred resignation so far, but there is lots of offline chatter about how it is illegal and can’t be funded. If they aren’t going to put people on administrative leave leave as directed by the OPM memo and FAQs, they need to say so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am seriously considering it. I’m retirement eligible, and I really don’t want this drama. I would only do it if the admin leave is real, so waiting for agency guidance. The agency has been silent on the deferred resignation so far, but there is lots of offline chatter about how it is illegal and can’t be funded. If they aren’t going to put people on administrative leave leave as directed by the OPM memo and FAQs, they need to say so.

If this gets challenged in court, and they end up having done this without legal justification, what's the odds that they may claw that money you were paid back?

If you weren't working, you don't have the protection of being required to be paid for work. Maybe it just gets taken back.

[Anonymous]

If this gets challenged in court, and they end up having done this without legal justification, what's the odds that they may claw that money you were paid back?

If you weren't working, you don't have the protection of being required to be paid for work. Maybe it just gets taken back.

Who is going to challenge this? It is a benefit, not a punishment, so individual employees or unions won’t. The Trump executive departments won’t challenge it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this gets challenged in court, and they end up having done this without legal justification, what's the odds that they may claw that money you were paid back?

If you weren't working, you don't have the protection of being required to be paid for work. Maybe it just gets taken back.

Who is going to challenge this? It is a benefit, not a punishment, so individual employees or unions won’t. The Trump executive departments won’t challenge it.

You think no one would be pissed enough that Feds are being paid a lot (at my salary, 8 months would top 100k) to not work to sue? That a good governance or watchdog group won’t find a plaintiff with standing?

Also, clawback could be an unintended consequence. Someone takes this, regrets it, sues to say it’s illegal and they didn’t actually resign, and it’s declared illegal. What happens next? Agencies have to take measures in the law to clawback funds. I’m working at SSa right now as we deal with overpayments. It’s a real issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this gets challenged in court, and they end up having done this without legal justification, what's the odds that they may claw that money you were paid back?

If you weren't working, you don't have the protection of being required to be paid for work. Maybe it just gets taken back.

Who is going to challenge this? It is a benefit, not a punishment, so individual employees or unions won’t. The Trump executive departments won’t challenge it.

You think no one would be pissed enough that Feds are being paid a lot (at my salary, 8 months would top 100k) to not work to sue? That a good governance or watchdog group won’t find a plaintiff with standing?

Also, clawback could be an unintended consequence. Someone takes this, regrets it, sues to say it’s illegal and they didn’t actually resign, and it’s declared illegal. What happens next? Agencies have to take measures in the law to clawback funds. I’m working at SSa right now as we deal with overpayments. It’s a real issue.
This is like asking who could challenge Biden’s student loan forgiveness efforts. The lawyers find a way.

[Anonymous]

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You think no one would be pissed enough that Feds are being paid a lot (at my salary, 8 months would top 100k) to not work to sue? That a good governance or watchdog group won’t find a plaintiff with standing?

EXACTLY. There is going to be an entire American populace who is totally cool with a bunch of people IDENTIFIED as sitting home on their fat lazy assets and getting paid for, what? 7 or 8 months? And doing nothing?

While bird flu hits and eggs are gone and we're right back at the start of COVID with regular people having to do their jobs and risk dying?

Yeah right. Pull the other one with the bells.

Also, clawback could be an unintended consequence. Someone takes this, regrets it, sues to say it’s illegal and they didn’t actually resign, and it’s declared illegal. What happens next? Agencies have to take measures in the law to clawback funds. I’m working at SSa right now as we deal with overpayments. It’s a real issue.

Exactly.