Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 09:17     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:My DH is seriously thinking about this. He was eligible to retire in Oct 2024 and he planned on retiring in August.

He thinks it’s a great deal. I don’t know what to think (I’m not a fed and I’m much younger than him so nowhere near retirement)

Any thoughts?


Please tell me this is a joke. I would absolutely not take this offer. I would no trust anything out of this administration. I don't think they even legally have the funds to back this. Pensions could be impacted by resigning ahead of retirement. If he is eligible to retire I would just have him retire. A potential "8 months of pay" is not worth the risk.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 06:44     Subject: Re:Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Apparently they hired a 21 year old and also a recent high school grad in OPM to run these operations.

https://fortune.com/2025/01/29/top-hires-donald-trump-office-of-personnel-management-high-school-graduate-gen-z-elon-musk/

Tech and finance bros behind OPM looking like it is run by a bunch of monkeys:

Amanda Scales (OPM Chief of Staff)

Brian Bjelde (HR Exec from SpaceX)

Riccardo Biasini (Exec from Boring Co)

Anthony Armstrong (Exec from Morgan Stanley)

Steve Davis (DOGE and on detail to GSA)

Baris Akis (Turkish-born Silicon Valley exec who graduated from Stanford in 2016)

Thomas Shedd (Tesla software engineer, Director of Technology Transformation Services at GSA)

Edward Coristine (19 years old)


Very impressive, and refreshing we need the best and brightest genz in the government


Hate to break it to you, but the Tide pod eating generation with a lifetime of TikTok brain comes off as being as intelligent as you expect they would. They're writing emails that read as if they had a steady diet of lead paint chips as kids.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 03:18     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
We are going to have litigation for at least a decade after these morons leave. Hopefully we don't see any violence.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 02:18     Subject: Re:Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:Apparently they hired a 21 year old and also a recent high school grad in OPM to run these operations.

https://fortune.com/2025/01/29/top-hires-donald-trump-office-of-personnel-management-high-school-graduate-gen-z-elon-musk/

Tech and finance bros behind OPM looking like it is run by a bunch of monkeys:

Amanda Scales (OPM Chief of Staff)

Brian Bjelde (HR Exec from SpaceX)

Riccardo Biasini (Exec from Boring Co)

Anthony Armstrong (Exec from Morgan Stanley)

Steve Davis (DOGE and on detail to GSA)

Baris Akis (Turkish-born Silicon Valley exec who graduated from Stanford in 2016)

Thomas Shedd (Tesla software engineer, Director of Technology Transformation Services at GSA)

Edward Coristine (19 years old)


Very impressive, and refreshing we need the best and brightest genz in the government
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 00:09     Subject: Re:Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Apparently they hired a 21 year old and also a recent high school grad in OPM to run these operations.

https://fortune.com/2025/01/29/top-hires-donald-trump-office-of-personnel-management-high-school-graduate-gen-z-elon-musk/

Tech and finance bros behind OPM looking like it is run by a bunch of monkeys:

Amanda Scales (OPM Chief of Staff)

Brian Bjelde (HR Exec from SpaceX)

Riccardo Biasini (Exec from Boring Co)

Anthony Armstrong (Exec from Morgan Stanley)

Steve Davis (DOGE and on detail to GSA)

Baris Akis (Turkish-born Silicon Valley exec who graduated from Stanford in 2016)

Thomas Shedd (Tesla software engineer, Director of Technology Transformation Services at GSA)

Edward Coristine (19 years old)
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 23:21     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's pretty obvious someone high on cocaine with access to AI is writing these emails. Why would anyone pay attention to them?


Ridiculous take. Thanks for nothing.
Well then, why would anyone competent think it was a good idea to name the memo 'a fork in the road'?

The same title as the twitter buyout memo? Everyone could easily find out that the twitter employees who took the buyout never got paid.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/10/elon-musk-severance-lawsuit-twitter#:~:text=A%20US%20court%20on%20Wednesday,company%20now%20known%20as%20X.


Because the emotionally stunted tech bros think they are the absolute smartest people EVER and no one would ever be able to do a hint of due diligence and find out that they are actually full of s***.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 23:11     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Trump and Musk lie every time they open their mouths and you are a fool if your trust this scam!
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 23:02     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's pretty obvious someone high on cocaine with access to AI is writing these emails. Why would anyone pay attention to them?


Ridiculous take. Thanks for nothing.
Well then, why would anyone competent think it was a good idea to name the memo 'a fork in the road'?

The same title as the twitter buyout memo? Everyone could easily find out that the twitter employees who took the buyout never got paid.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/10/elon-musk-severance-lawsuit-twitter#:~:text=A%20US%20court%20on%20Wednesday,company%20now%20known%20as%20X.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 22:53     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know multiple GS-14+ Feds thinking of taking this if it is confirmed. Just saying.

Isn't 8 months of pay more than the 25k max severance pay? I don't trust it at all. My letter read that you wouldn't have to return to the office nothing about not working. I wouldn't believe for a minute that anyone that agrees to this they would find a reason to fire you for "not being loyal" then you would lose your retirement benefits.


Anyone who thinks they can resign and get paid to do nothing is going to find out sooner or later. The government can always come back years later and collect any payments you shouldn't have gotten.


This is a big con and a big fake. Read all the Reddit threads about it.

Don't fall for this hoax. It's from Elon Musk, who is going to accept your resignation, and not give you a penny. REad the fine print in those letters!! You're giving up your sick pay and pension and health insurance and everything else you've earned and expect when you retire from the federal government.

Don't fall for the con!! And don't trust the trolls on this thread who say "I'm taking it! Sounds like a great deal!" They're all sitting in booths at the troll farm getting paid less then minimum wage to spew out these lies to convince the dupes to sign on the dotted line and give up their jobs and pensions forever.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 21:41     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:It's pretty obvious someone high on cocaine with access to AI is writing these emails. Why would anyone pay attention to them?


Ridiculous take. Thanks for nothing.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 21:30     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:The level of lack of clarity, confusion and possible lack of legality of this option seems like a vote against it. They probably don't even really know how this would work.


It's pretty obvious someone high on cocaine with access to AI is writing these emails. Why would anyone pay attention to them?
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 20:43     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279365/federal-workers-resign-offer-buyout?fbclid=IwY2xjawIHuIxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHc6eGvevjlBLBJBwQmLpY5UhMMQ97SXtt2rObqhc2zHY-ja2pCPaIGxecQ_aem_AMrjrF3aYocpjl3lqEnWaA
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 20:41     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
The level of lack of clarity, confusion and possible lack of legality of this option seems like a vote against it. They probably don't even really know how this would work.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 20:32     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Has anyone received solid guidance on how to evaluate this offer? If so, please share. I am retirement eligible.


Why not just retire versus resign?


Because I could theoretically get eight more months of pay without working.


You still would have to work…
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 20:18     Subject: Re:Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The people who sent the email don't know how government works. Government employees know a lot about government benefits and forms and aren't going to up and quit without a lot more formal explanation and paperwork. The only ones who are going to leave are the ones who are eligible to retire between now and September anyhow, the ones who are truly remote and RTO would be basically impossible, and the ones who would be quitting in the next couple of months for other reasons. They are definitely not going to get 5-10% of the workforce (which sucks for everyone else, it probably means they will definitely fire all the provisional employees, for example, to boost the numbers they will want to crow about).


Not verified, but I heard that trump set a team to OPM, and they installed a drive, send the emails from OPM’s servers, and then left. This email did not come directly from and was not cleared by OPM.


troll



Lawsuit filed
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/01/29/opms-new-email-system-prompts-lawsuit/

Corroborates this reporting
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personnel-management-opm-neuralink-x-boring-stalin/