Are things calming down, Feds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calm before the storm OP. Worst is yet to come.

+1

[Anonymous]

false sense of security. The RIFs are coming but I’m hoping these recent court battles and the economist crashing indicate that things are not in their favor and there will be pushback and a slowing down of the recklessness. Then again, my guard is fully up preparing for the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:false sense of security. The RIFs are coming but I’m hoping these recent court battles and the economist crashing indicate that things are not in their favor and there will be pushback and a slowing down of the recklessness. Then again, my guard is fully up preparing for the worst.

The economic stuff we see now relates to tariffs, not us. The impact from the RIFs will occur at a later date.

[Anonymous]

Nope. The spending EO last week is basing absolute chaos.

[Anonymous]

We're also facing a shutdown. Even if it gets averted last second we still have to prep for the potential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're also facing a shutdown. Even if it gets averted last second we still have to prep for the potential.

Oh good point. On Monday we will be dealing with updating our five bullets without knowing how they are actually being used, and the rest of the week we will be preparing for a shutdown that may or may not occur, all while wondering if our names/programs are on the lists our agencies are expected to turn in next week.

[Anonymous]

This “quiet” is the sound of them reloading.

[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.

Save those emails and other comms, PP. We are going to use them for evidence in DOGE's criminal trial and then publish a book about it so history doesn't forget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're also facing a shutdown. Even if it gets averted last second we still have to prep for the potential.

Oh good point. On Monday we will be dealing with updating our five bullets without knowing how they are actually being used, and the rest of the week we will be preparing for a shutdown that may or may not occur, all while wondering if our names/programs are on the lists our agencies are expected to turn in next week.

This sums it up for me.

[Anonymous]

My managers at least tell us (orally, nothing in writing) when they have had to put our names on a list. So there’s that.

[Anonymous]

You know if we have a shutdown Elon will still be asking for his 5 bullets every weekend.

[Anonymous]

I’m feeling more optimistic. I work for the Navy (civilian, engineer) and Trump wanting to revitalize U.S. shipbuilding gave me a boost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know if we have a shutdown Elon will still be asking for his 5 bullets every weekend.

I get my request straight from my agency (DoD). We have a generic, but honest, set of responses to use.

[Anonymous]

It has been quiet at my independent agency, but I know there are folks who are insanely busy jumping through the various hoops created by the EOs. I suspect they are going to try to minimize any RIFs (we’re already losing 10 percent to the fork and retirements), but we’ll see what happens.

[Anonymous]

It is just trumps style. A lot of barking but not a lot happening.