Probationaries getting fired today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything about NIH?

Haven’t heard anything yet.

Thank you. I have a dear friend who is a probationary employee there. I want to be in the know so I can support her but want to avoid the "so are you fired?" texts and calls if I can

DOGE has reached NIH and RFK Jr just got confirmed. I don’t know if they’ll wait for the new NIH director to onboard or just make their own decisions. If you’re interested Reddit Fednews has all the updates in real time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything about NIH?

Haven’t heard anything yet.

Thank you. I have a dear friend who is a probationary employee there. I want to be in the know so I can support her but want to avoid the "so are you fired?" texts and calls if I can

DOGE has reached NIH and RFK Jr just got confirmed. I don’t know if they’ll wait for the new NIH director to onboard or just make their own decisions. If you’re interested Reddit Fednews has all the updates in real time.

Markarty and Bhattarachya are normal-I hope they have a say

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything about NIH?

Haven’t heard anything yet.

Thank you. I have a dear friend who is a probationary employee there. I want to be in the know so I can support her but want to avoid the "so are you fired?" texts and calls if I can

DOGE has reached NIH and RFK Jr just got confirmed. I don’t know if they’ll wait for the new NIH director to onboard or just make their own decisions. If you’re interested Reddit Fednews has all the updates in real time.

Markarty and Bhattarachya are normal-I hope they have a say

+1.

[Anonymous]

DOE let go of most of their probationary staff today. It’s been a gut wrenching sort of day to tell smart STEM professionals who you recruited away from industry and who moved their families that they were being let go.

[Anonymous]

Are probationary staff who are let go given any sort of severance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DOE let go of most of their probationary staff today. It’s been a gut wrenching sort of day to tell smart STEM professionals who you recruited away from industry and who moved their families that they were being let go.

This makes me sick to my stomach.

[Anonymous]

From the WP:

"But agencies appeared to move quickly on Thursday to carry out the directive, according to interviews with dozens of federal employees and records obtained by The Washington Post. Thousands of workers were laid off in messages delivered through prerecorded videos and on group calls. Some were ordered to leave the building within 30 minutes. Others were told they would be formally fired by email, which never arrived."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are probationary staff who are let go given any sort of severance?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the WP:

"But agencies appeared to move quickly on Thursday to carry out the directive, according to interviews with dozens of federal employees and records obtained by The Washington Post. Thousands of workers were laid off in messages delivered through prerecorded videos and on group calls. Some were ordered to leave the building within 30 minutes. Others were told they would be formally fired by email, which never arrived."

That is an insane way to fire people. Really shocking.

[Anonymous]

Going to be rolled out at every other agency tomorrow. It’s all over the news now.

[Anonymous]

It’s the largest layoff in US history - could affect 200,000 employees. The largest to this point was IBM in the 90s that affected around 60,000 people.

[Anonymous]

Has HHS heard anything yet or is it quiet bc we only just got our Sec?

[Anonymous]

But we can afford $400M for cyber trucks for the govt?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s the largest layoff in US history - could affect 200,000 employees. The largest to this point was IBM in the 90s that affected around 60,000 people.

They need to put that in the Guinness Book of World Records with Trump and Musk’s pictures so all future generations will know.

[Anonymous]

How are they being told?!