politicizing the apolitical civil service: OPM's new 'Merit' Hiring Plan

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Anonymous wrote:Reviewing four essays that are unrelated to the actual skills and knowledge of the position will not speed up hiring or make the process more efficient.

Though I agree with a push to bring in more young employees, I no longer recommend government service to new grads based on what this admin has done to the workforce.

Yeah, I agree with bringing in more young employees. Too bad doge just fired them.

I'd be fine with bringing in anybody. We're still under a hiring freeze and can't replace those who were fired, retired early or took the fork.

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Federal hiring too often focuses on elite universities and credentials, instead of merit, practical skill, and commitment to American ideals,” the strategy states.

The word “merit” as used by the right wing is turning into a dog whistle. They don’t have any concept of what it means or how to measure it. The federal government hires lots of people right out of college, when “merit” can most easily be determined by what school you were able to get into (elite = worked hard in high school) and how well you did in what major. The reason the MAGA crowd doesn’t like elite universities is because uneducated and undereducated people are much more likely to go along with their brand of lunacy. Trying to push “merit” as an alternative is contradictory to the reality, which is that there’s plenty of merit coming out of elite universities.

They knownexactly what "merit" means. It means "how much money can you make me?" They are running the country like a business, maximinging value extracted for themselves.

This dynamic is seen so clearly in the visa initiatives -- slash student visas, because why should they get to come here just because they are smart and can pay tuition? but create new kinds of Golden Visas, because if you have lots of money, we'd love to have you.

+1 Meanwhile we’re going to run out of doctors.

“When the Trump administration put a pause on student visa interviews recently, it hit a perhaps surprising group: thousands of J-1 physician visa holders who are supposed to start residency on July 1. Now, they are unsure what their future will hold. The hospitals where they are supposed to work are scrambling, too.

The U.S. can’t afford to lose these doctors — the country is already running out of physicians.”

https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/04/us-medical-school-international-students-j-1-physician-visa-residency-shortage/

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Anonymous wrote:Umm, what's wrong with any of this?

The part where it says “How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role” is the last thing any of us should want for federal hires. This is asking explicitly for people who have a partisan leaning. Why would it be good for the country if we hire only people who have a political bent? That’s exactly what the current administration has been trying (incompetently and ill-advisedly) to find and weed out.

Umm, you work for the President. If you can't work with his priorities and orders, then you shouldn't work for the Government.

That's not true in any sense. Is your post satire...or are you genuinely this ignorant?

I can’t believe this. When I first came to DC I asked a guard how to get into the Supreme Court. He said, “through the front doors. It belongs to the people.”

Honestly I weep for the low expectations. Have some awareness of what’s ours as Americans. Don’t tread on me refers to the government, not liberals.

Hmm. But not the Capitol. You cannot enter the Capitol unless you're okay facing years in prison for trespassing.

You know you’re lying so just stop. You can go into the Capitol every weekday. You wait in line like civilized people and go through a medical detector for screening out weapons, and enter. What you cannot do is break windows to enter; barge the doors; knock over the security guards; charge the police; smear your feces on the walls; piss on statutes; or, steal items from the SoH office like you want to do. Disgusting.

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“President Donald Trump is accelerating efforts to transform the nonpartisan, merit-based federal workforce into one that demands and rewards loyalty to the president, according to civil servants, public service experts and employment attorneys.
The ongoing shift would ditch decades-old rules that were intended to ensure that federal hiring, retention and promotion decisions are based largely on employees’ skills and experience, say the workers, experts and attorneys.
The House-passed budget proposal under consideration in the Senate would give new federal workers an ultimatum to accept “at-will” status — meaning they could be more easily fired — or pay a higher retirement contribution. The administration also unveiled a plan to require job applicants to write short essays describing how they plan to advance Trump’s priorities. And Trump has revived his previous efforts to reclassify thousands of federal employees and blur the line between political appointees and career professionals.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/16/trump-civil-service-loyalty-firings/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F431f74a%2F685041087867926b762d51b4%2F596bc2b7ae7e8a44e7dcaab7%2F13%2F66%2F685041087867926b762d51b4

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Anonymous wrote:Another call for mediocrity and obedience over qualification and knowledge. I wish I could say that I was shocked.

This^.

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Its not about loyalty to the nation but loyalty to project 25.

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Anonymous wrote:Another call for mediocrity and obedience over qualification and knowledge. I wish I could say that I was shocked.

Mediocrity is a whole slew of useless credentials, degrees and hand wringing "rights" campaigns.

Math is racist, correct?