DOGE at DoD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When DOGE walks in the door, what does it look like? Is it a handful of kids accompanied by mercenary looking guys? That’s my impression so far.

Here’s the latest list of the doge team. There’s women here too…although not the most illustrious of bios…Stephen Miller’s wife who made a name for herself getting into a lot of trouble in Florida

https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/

Highly accomplished. Well educated people. We’d all be impressed by their accomplishments and intelligence if not for the MAGA connection.

[Anonymous]

Any insight on:
* DOD Contractors?
* FFRDCs (APL, MITRE, IDA, CNA etc)
Thank you.

[Anonymous]

My DS recently graduated with a MS degree from CMU, undergrad from MIT, is scheduled to start as a Fed for the DoD on February 24th. He received an email last night that it will not happen. He turned down offers from Apple, Amazon, and an IB company to work for the DoD. This is a loss for the defense department.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS recently graduated with a MS degree from CMU, undergrad from MIT, is scheduled to start as a Fed for the DoD on February 24th. He received an email last night that it will not happen. He turned down offers from Apple, Amazon, and an IB company to work for the DoD. This is a loss for the defense department.

That’s horrible. Not just for the department but the country. I’m sure your son will land on his feet but I’m not sure our country is going to recover from this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reddit reporting that probationaries at DOD will get the ax:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/LnCbidWcTJ

So awful. Because firing the youngest recruits hired for skills the agency doesn’t have is such a smart thing for the government to do.

A lot of the probationary employees are senior employees who were recently promoted. So you're not just losing your newest recruits but your best performers as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When DOGE walks in the door, what does it look like? Is it a handful of kids accompanied by mercenary looking guys? That’s my impression so far.

Here’s the latest list of the doge team. There’s women here too…although not the most illustrious of bios…Stephen Miller’s wife who made a name for herself getting into a lot of trouble in Florida

https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/

Highly accomplished. Well educated people. We’d all be impressed by their accomplishments and intelligence if not for the MAGA connection.

Bravo. This is some cold satire.

Her actions at UF are ridiculous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any insight on:
* DOD Contractors?
* FFRDCs (APL, MITRE, IDA, CNA etc)
Thank you.

Up please. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

I am DoD probationary (Army) It’s so hard to continue working under the circumstances. I hate this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS recently graduated with a MS degree from CMU, undergrad from MIT, is scheduled to start as a Fed for the DoD on February 24th. He received an email last night that it will not happen. He turned down offers from Apple, Amazon, and an IB company to work for the DoD. This is a loss for the defense department.

Many of these companies are on hiring frezes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reddit reporting that probationaries at DOD will get the ax:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/LnCbidWcTJ

So awful. Because firing the youngest recruits hired for skills the agency doesn’t have is such a smart thing for the government to do.

A lot of the probationary employees are senior employees who were recently promoted. So you're not just losing your newest recruits but your best performers as well.

I don’t think many people, including doge, understand that new positions and promotions in the government have a probationary period, no matter how long you’ve been working for the government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS recently graduated with a MS degree from CMU, undergrad from MIT, is scheduled to start as a Fed for the DoD on February 24th. He received an email last night that it will not happen. He turned down offers from Apple, Amazon, and an IB company to work for the DoD. This is a loss for the defense department.

Many of these companies are on hiring frezes.

Many of them are also dumping employees in mass layoffs.

[Anonymous]

Word is they're going to cut promotional activities. Bands, parades, outreach to schools airshows. Which is funny because rhe MAGA types love those things. And it will definitely hurt recruiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Word is they're going to cut promotional activities. Bands, parades, outreach to schools airshows. Which is funny because rhe MAGA types love those things. And it will definitely hurt recruiting.

Yeah, remember the flyovers Trump had on July 4 last time he was in office?

The bands are military people, though (not civilians, I think).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Word is they're going to cut promotional activities. Bands, parades, outreach to schools airshows. Which is funny because rhe MAGA types love those things. And it will definitely hurt recruiting.

Yeah, remember the flyovers Trump had on July 4 last time he was in office?

The bands are military people, though (not civilians, I think).

All those things are done by officers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reddit reporting that probationaries at DOD will get the ax:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/LnCbidWcTJ

So awful. Because firing the youngest recruits hired for skills the agency doesn’t have is such a smart thing for the government to do.

A lot of the probationary employees are senior employees who were recently promoted. So you're not just losing your newest recruits but your best performers as well.

I don’t think many people, including doge, understand that new positions and promotions in the government have a probationary period, no matter how long you’ve been working for the government.

DOGE understands this and simply does not care. This is about getting rid of as many people as they can as quickly as possible, full stop.