Anonymous wrote:I know someone who goes to work daily with zero tasks to do. She was let go by Musk & Co. and then brought back by court order. However, the projects she worked on are still gone. She's being paid to sit at work and read a book or play on her phone. And yes, her Supervisor told her and others on the team that it was fine to bring in books.

Thank goodness for all that maximized efficiency and elimination of waste!

Anonymous wrote:Like a kid who falls off his skateboard and then says "I meant to do that"

lol exactly.

I know someone who goes to work daily with zero tasks to do. She was let go by Musk & Co. and then brought back by court order. However, the projects she worked on are still gone. She's being paid to sit at work and read a book or play on her phone. And yes, her Supervisor told her and others on the team that it was fine to bring in books.

It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Vought said outright that he wanted to "traumatize" federal workers.

WTF.

Like a kid who falls off his skateboard and then says "I meant to do that"

Why are we supposed to be reassured when they keep promising to screw up?

Trump administration is a venn diagram of incompetence, inexperience, arrogance, participation trophy and George Orwell's dystopian.

Anonymous wrote:Is this just a plan to avoid doing RIFs properly?

Yes.

Is this just a plan to avoid doing RIFs properly?

Wtaf

Read about some people running numbers on the tariff math and it’s looking like they used ChatGPT to determine which changes to make for tariffs, and also explains the nonsensical other decisions.

"Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut. We're reinstating them. And that was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes," Kennedy said, speaking to reporters at a stop in Virginia.

Kennedy said that the elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's entire Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance Branch was among the mistakes. "

Proud of their incompetence.
I guess RFKJr thought that we didn't need a lead poisoning program because he wanted to eat all the lead himself.

Amazing. And that's not even the on the top 10 of dumb things they've done this week.

Seriously. How can 20% of firings at HHS be a "mistake"?

How can the RIF letters at USAID all have wrong info such that they were already issued twice?

How are these people so ridiculous?

THEY are the real fraud, waste and abuse. Or DEI hires for idiocy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-hhs-job-cuts-doge-mistakes/