Probationaries getting fired today

[Anonymous]

I hope every single one of these people sue. This is horrific. Completely illegal.

[Anonymous]

From the Washington Post article cited earlier:

“One agency, the Small Business Administration, listed a paralegal phone number for laid off employees to appeal their terminations.
The number was an automated line for an apartment building.”

Gift link: https://wapo.st/4gEW9CT

Just utter incompetence and cruelty.

[Anonymous]

It's also illegal for fire feds without cause.

[Anonymous]

I thought OPM said you don't have to fire all probationary

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opm-eases-plans-ta...deral-235246918.html

[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

This is very kind of you. I wish my friends were supportive like this - they seem clueless to what is happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Story needs to be:

Agency head who fired thousands of workers gets government to buy $300 million worth of his company's trucks.

[Anonymous]

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

No.

[Anonymous]

Schedule F will be next. I hate this. It’s a massacre and for what? To line Elon’s pockets. Why won’t congress stand up and say enough is enough.

[Anonymous]

NPR is calling these layoffs, but they are not RIFs. Probationary employees are being fired. And there is this fromt he article: "The employees, who have worked for less than two years in the federal government, were being let go without any notice or severance. Although a formal letter was being prepared, some employees were being fired verbally."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5296928/...oge-education-energy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you just got out of jail and you’re on probation, you shouldn’t be working for the government in the first place. -EM.

Wait, did he actually say that? It's hard to tell what is an SNL skit and what is real life now. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do probationaries get any kind of severance?

Not if they were fired. Severance is for RIF.

Pretty sure they do. It's an involuntary separation

Yes, but it's a firing and not a RIF, so no severence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do probationaries get any kind of severance?

Not if they were fired. Severance is for RIF.

Pretty sure they do. It's an involuntary separation

Even if they receive severance, it will be peanuts. Severance is based on years in service. For years one through ten, you get one week per year. That would equate to one/two weeks at best for probationary employees.

What's crazy is I attended a meeting yesterday where they explicitly said this was no longer happening to all probationary employees, only poor performers. I guess Donald is being vindictive again because he got low responses for the fork offer and because the kid wiped boogers on his desk.

[Anonymous]

Bloodbath at energy today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do probationaries get any kind of severance?

Not if they were fired. Severance is for RIF.

Pretty sure they do. It's an involuntary separation

Yes, but it's a firing and not a RIF, so no severence.

They’re layoffs. Only someone that hasn’t experienced a layoff wouldn’t know the difference.

[Anonymous]

F all trump maggots for this. I hope they get karma back tenfold.