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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, so instead of letting people take the deal, they are forcing everyone to be fired. Sad. You know they will set the bar high and expect everyone to be in 5 days a week. My relative was looking forward to the 8 months paid admin leave and then retiring. Now they will need just to retire immediately. Hopefully its just a pause but if it does get blocked It feels like [b]they stole a great deal from a lot of people. [/b][/quote]

No, because the deal was never going to be honored anyway.

A few fries short of a Happy Meal, aren't you? But then all MAGA posters are... [/quote]

You know divisive crap like this is why Dems lost? [/quote]

Democrats are very nice people: they want to include everyone (to a fault, IMO). It's not their fault that Fox News is allowed to lie on air 24/7 and has a death grip on much of people's news source. [/quote]

+1 That's rich...lectures on divisiveness coming from the right. [/quote]

DP. Sorry your "Fork" was so stupid that effectively nobody took it. Do better.[/quote]

The people I know who took it are past retirement age and are doing a VERA on top of it, or were looking to change careers and move, and thought "eh, what do I have to lose?".

System wide, if we believe the published number, there may be 50K employees who took it, about 2.5% of the workforce, far from the 5-10% they were hoping for.

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Same here. A normal year 70,000 employees retire. This offer is just gonna give those 70,000 employees an eight month vacation before it plus the 240 hours they have plus all the leave. They earned between now and September.

It’s like the stupidest offer in the world. It saves nobody money. It doesn’t even get rid of people that were not gonna quit anyway.

What do they think they’re doing?

He’s so used to working with fickle 22-year-olds that he thought a whole bunch of people were gonna be like yahoo I’m gonna take an eight month vacation. What? [/quote]

The Fork is not stupid, it's evil. It's the definition of a scam, where empty promises are made under time pressure, and they're issued with vague threats and confusing conflicting requirements. The Fork preys on those who are gullible or stressed-out.

Some Twitter employees had to sue to get their promised money. Your mistake is believing the man. These feds were never going to get their full payout, which is why there's been such a hullabaloo. The offer is worded in such terms that it can be considered threatening (it includes actual threats of termination if the offer isn't taken), plus it adds a number of loophole statements specifying that actual requirements (no work vs work, in-person vs telework) are subject to each agency's last word. And the biggest loophole of all is what it doesn't say: that Congress has only funded the government until mid-March. No one can legally promise money after that, so there goes the payout from March until September.

The people who were going to quit anyway or resign thought they had nothing to lose - maybe get some extra money for a month. That's why there are so little takers.

But it's not stupid, not by a long shot. Just vicious. Elon is looking to oust the low-hanging fruit. And then he's going to try to fire people for real. There is no win-win in any of this apart from the media outcry and the path through the courts to extirpate this man from the government.

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