Are things calming down, Feds?

[Anonymous]

No. It is worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a DOGIE taking the pulse and temperature of the workforce?

No, this is OP. I hear you all. I think I am just genuinely mourning the career I loved, and anxious at the prospect of giving up my benefits for a private sector position. And deluding myself to think I won't get RIFed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But there have been two big victories with today’s supreme court ruling and lower court regarding probationary fires. Call me naive but I think the wrecking ball is being slowed.

No, merely diverted.
So OPM finally acknowledges it cannot legally do these firings and other BS it's been doing. That just means T's appointed agency heads will be directly ordered and expected to do it.

I think PP is correct that it is being slowed, though. They are now being pushed to do things with some forethought and legally. RIFs with percentage reductions (versus whole sections), while painful, at least are slower, generally more considered, and have some payouts/benefits to people laid off.

Tell that to the GSA. Entire divisions axed and people laid off with no consideration of veteran's prefs, tenure etc. Happening at other places as well.

yes, which is why I said "versus whole sections."

[Anonymous]

I know my agency has lists and I have been told I’m on a list and now maybe I’m not. The whiplash is awful. I’m just trying to accept that I won’t know until I know. Which will likely be next week I guess?

[Anonymous]

At BVA. No. Worse.

[Anonymous]

It's the same, but my level of caring is less. I've just accepted the fact that I am eventually going to get RIFed, and this job is basically just an income source until that happens. Too bad, because I previously really did care about the mission.

[Anonymous]

TIL alt.gov

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/altgov-elon-musk-doge-federal-workers

Deep State FTW

[Anonymous]

Things are looking up. I’m a new fed term employee but turned in my resignation last week due to the chaos and insanity not to mention total lack of job security. My branch was again threatened with termination this morning if we did not comply or conditions were met BUT at the same time I was reading that an interview request popped up in my inbox! There is a chance!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m at SSA, which is being run by a non-supervisory GS-15 who was was on Admin leave and probably would have been fired (possibly prosecuted) for leaking info to DOGE. He’s serving as a figurehead while Musk has completely redone the other chart, closed field offices, turned our 10 national regions into 4, fired most of the decent SES (and certainly the people we trusted), made it clear they will be replaced by politicals, announced RIFs of 12-50% (we are not getting reliable info from anyone and what we get is contradictory). He apparently decided to outsource teleservice operations (mostly to AI). He has been sending a stream of insane, typo ridden, stream of thought, impossible to interpret without Ketamibr memos, including one telling us we serve at the pleasure of Trump (nope, we are political appointees) and we had better improve our attitudes or else (gee, wonder why morale is down). He’s also started the RIF process now and isn’t waiting until 3/13. He returned NBU to the office with 36 hours notice. They found out Monday they had to report today. But as of last night, they don’t have space for many people— so people left work knowing they were RTO today, but not knowing their office location. “Your manager will reach out.”

And that’s just the last week. It’s completely insane. No one is doing substantive work because they are do many DOGE imposed issues and so many meetings with managers who have no answers.

How to Destroy an Agency 101. It’s ramping up, not down.

And again, this is being done (nominally) by a GS15 in his first supervisory role. DOgE chose to completely restructure now, rather than waiting until our political is confirmed next month. Which makes zero sense.

If you are in a lull before rIGs, enjoy it. It’s pretty clear part of the goal at SSA is to create a work environment so toxic, people wuit.

I can attest that it's going similarly to this at another agency-- and before any political head has joined. My theory is that they're trying to break a bunch of things and fire people now, before the head gets in and starts feeling actually a little loyal to/territorial about the agency they're supposed to be leading.

[Anonymous]

I feel like things have been calm-ish at statistical agencies but not sure how much longer that will last.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TIL alt.gov

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/altgov-elon-musk-doge-federal-workers

Deep State FTW

Fighting faciam isn’t deep state. They would have ended DOGE before it began.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like things have been calm-ish at statistical agencies but not sure how much longer that will last.

How is Census, if you know?

[Anonymous]

Nope, not even a little bit. Complete and utter chaos.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like things have been calm-ish at statistical agencies but not sure how much longer that will last.

How is Census, if you know?

I would like to know that as well. If anyone has any info, please share

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the same, but my level of caring is less. I've just accepted the fact that I am eventually going to get RIFed, and this job is basically just an income source until that happens. Too bad, because I previously really did care about the mission.

Me too. I've made my peace with it. Sad to go out like this yet I will not let this kill my spirit. Life will go on. And this too shall pass.