DOGE at DoD

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes, this impacts my DH and 2/3 of his team. He's at DOD.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Military band is not officers. The conductor is an officer, but not the band members themselves.

[Anonymous]

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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

Well there’s the 19 year old popcorn heir Edward Coristine who was fired from his summer internship for leaking confidential company data.

And Gavin Kliger the 25 year old who circulates white supremacist stuff online who now has access to your tax data from the IRS.

And Alexandra Benyon whose most recent role was at her husband’s ketamine start up company.

What could possibly go wrong when you mix a data leaker, a racist and people who use drugs (Elon Musk is also a ketamine user) in one group along with Katie Miller the sociopath who nearly got kicked out of the university of Florida.

[Anonymous]

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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

So we have a bunch a druggies conducting a date breach of all our personal data? Soon it will be for sale on the dark web.

Well there’s the 19 year old popcorn heir Edward Coristine who was fired from his summer internship for leaking confidential company data.

And Gavin Kliger the 25 year old who circulates white supremacist stuff online who now has access to your tax data from the IRS.

And Alexandra Benyon whose most recent role was at her husband’s ketamine start up company.

What could possibly go wrong when you mix a data leaker, a racist and people who use drugs (Elon Musk is also a ketamine user) in one group along with Katie Miller the sociopath who nearly got kicked out of the university of Florida.

So we have a bunch a druggies conducting a date breach of all our personal data? Soon it will be for sale on the dark web.

[Anonymous]

Aren't people supposed to have a security clearance and drug tests before they work with sensitive government systems?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't people supposed to have a security clearance and drug tests before they work with sensitive government systems?

No. They are special government employees. Drug away!!

[Anonymous]

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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.

Military band is not officers. The conductor is an officer, but not the band members themselves.

but how much would they actually save by cutting army band etc.? or what kind of fraud waste abuse would there be? we're talking about bunch of musicians - artists basically, the least 'swamp-istique' part of the swamp...

[Anonymous]

were any dod probationary employees fired today?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Military band is not officers. The conductor is an officer, but not the band members themselves.

PP probably meant they are uniformed military, not DoD civilians.

[Anonymous]

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

I work for one of the “Big 5.” We haven’t gotten any terminations at all yet. We also have some contracts at civilian agencies and haven’t seen any impacts there either.

[Anonymous]

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

I work for one of the “Big 5.” We haven’t gotten any terminations at all yet. We also have some contracts at civilian agencies and haven’t seen any impacts there either.

Same for us, but in all fairness, DOGE has not entered the primary funding agencies yet.

[Anonymous]

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

I work for one of the “Big 5.” We haven’t gotten any terminations at all yet. We also have some contracts at civilian agencies and haven’t seen any impacts there either.

Same for us, but in all fairness, DOGE has not entered the primary funding agencies yet.

Yeah I’m not saying there won’t be. We just haven’t seen it. My sense is most of the terminations have been small contracts and small businesses, and mostly in agencies like USAID, DoEd etc where we don’t work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:were any dod probationary employees fired today?

Yes. 2 in my office. Civilians. Not at the Pentagon. One a vet but too highly ranked to qualify for vet protection.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Military band is not officers. The conductor is an officer, but not the band members themselves.

but how much would they actually save by cutting army band etc.? or what kind of fraud waste abuse would there be? we're talking about bunch of musicians - artists basically, the least 'swamp-istique' part of the swamp...

19 year old computer engineers with DOGE probably view music and art as 'waste' but obviously it's not actually about saving money or anything but reporting people were fired.

[Anonymous]

Aren't people supposed to have a security clearance and drug tests before they work with sensitive government systems?

Not necessarily a security clearance, unless the system has classified vs. just sensitive information.