Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 16:28     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Axioms reporting 20k takers do far


Interesting. According to the OPM itself, around 100,000 have been retiring each year.

Is this offer actually causing people to hold off on retirement out of distrust?

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

2023 108,387
2022 114,505
2021 96,956
2020 99,529


It's only the beginning of February. If those retirements are spaced evenly throughout the year, then 20k is a bit above the norm. Not much, but some.


There are many people who leave and don’t retire too though.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 16:09     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Axioms reporting 20k takers do far


They are going to find out the hard way the takers probably aren't going to get paid anything.


If they were going to retire anyway, it's reasonable to take this deal, for however long it pays out.


Actually it’s probably not. You might waive rights to which you are otherwise entitled by taking a deal that congress didn’t appropriate funds for or otherwise approve.


I know several people who would be interested in VERA but have absolutely no interest in this. Nobody trusts it.


The whole fork thing was quite obviously a rush job from them. The roll out was a mess.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 16:07     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
I don't think Trump will quit over $300 k of salary.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 16:07     Subject: Re:Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:Seems not to be going well. The sketchy buyout is turning into a threat. I guess Feds are tougher than Silicon Valley tech bros.


WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has warned federal employees that they could be furloughed if they do not accept a buyout offer that expires Thursday, according to an email obtained by USA TODAY.


Silicone Valley tech bros can go fork themselves.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 16:06     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Axioms reporting 20k takers do far


Interesting. According to the OPM itself, around 100,000 have been retiring each year.

Is this offer actually causing people to hold off on retirement out of distrust?

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

2023 108,387
2022 114,505
2021 96,956
2020 99,529


Yes. I know several people who planned to retire who have put those plans on hold because of these increasingly bizarre "fork" messages. If they wanted feds to retire, they could just do a retirement buyout like the GOP used to in the good ole days.

The Fork has pretty much pissed most people off.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:53     Subject: Re:Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Seems not to be going well. The sketchy buyout is turning into a threat. I guess Feds are tougher than Silicon Valley tech bros.


WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has warned federal employees that they could be furloughed if they do not accept a buyout offer that expires Thursday, according to an email obtained by USA TODAY.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 22:32     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Axioms reporting 20k takers do far


They are going to find out the hard way the takers probably aren't going to get paid anything.


If they were going to retire anyway, it's reasonable to take this deal, for however long it pays out.


Actually it’s probably not. You might waive rights to which you are otherwise entitled by taking a deal that congress didn’t appropriate funds for or otherwise approve.


I know several people who would be interested in VERA but have absolutely no interest in this. Nobody trusts it.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 22:27     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
I've been saying for a while now that we need at least 20,000 to test the theory. If there were only 200, that could've been strung along for a bit. But at 20,000, they'll have to do what they were going to do.

It's going to be a real Betty Boop moment of "Oopsie! Aw shucks, guys, looks like we couldn't pass the budget with that entanglement, and now all administrative leave positions are summarily being ended. No biggie, no work was getting done anyway, so .... oopsie!"

It will land with the same squeeze of a wet fart that greeted RFKJ "unexpectedly" coming out to fireworks at that one Trump rally. What -- OMG this is incredible, nobody could have expected this, fzzzzzz-squit.


20,000 rubes fell for this. There's a sucker born every minute
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 13:48     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Axioms reporting 20k takers do far


Interesting. According to the OPM itself, around 100,000 have been retiring each year.

Is this offer actually causing people to hold off on retirement out of distrust?

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

2023 108,387
2022 114,505
2021 96,956
2020 99,529


It's only the beginning of February. If those retirements are spaced evenly throughout the year, then 20k is a bit above the norm. Not much, but some.


But this includes people who were planning on leaving before September and wanted to try for a little extra. This isn't just people who were going to retire in February or March.

Shucks, gang. They mighta seen through our scam after all. Aw, jeez.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 13:46     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30

I've been saying for a while now that we need at least 20,000 to test the theory. If there were only 200, that could've been strung along for a bit. But at 20,000, they'll have to do what they were going to do.

It's going to be a real Betty Boop moment of "Oopsie! Aw shucks, guys, looks like we couldn't pass the budget with that entanglement, and now all administrative leave positions are summarily being ended. No biggie, no work was getting done anyway, so .... oopsie!"

It will land with the same squeeze of a wet fart that greeted RFKJ "unexpectedly" coming out to fireworks at that one Trump rally. What -- OMG this is incredible, nobody could have expected this, fzzzzzz-squit.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 13:46     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Axioms reporting 20k takers do far


They are going to find out the hard way the takers probably aren't going to get paid anything.


If they were going to retire anyway, it's reasonable to take this deal, for however long it pays out.


Actually it’s probably not. You might waive rights to which you are otherwise entitled by taking a deal that congress didn’t appropriate funds for or otherwise approve.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 13:45     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Axioms reporting 20k takers do far


Interesting. According to the OPM itself, around 100,000 have been retiring each year.

Is this offer actually causing people to hold off on retirement out of distrust?

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

2023 108,387
2022 114,505
2021 96,956
2020 99,529


It's only the beginning of February. If those retirements are spaced evenly throughout the year, then 20k is a bit above the norm. Not much, but some.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 13:44     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Axioms reporting 20k takers do far


They are going to find out the hard way the takers probably aren't going to get paid anything.


If they were going to retire anyway, it's reasonable to take this deal, for however long it pays out.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 13:41     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:Axioms reporting 20k takers do far


Interesting. According to the OPM itself, around 100,000 have been retiring each year.

Is this offer actually causing people to hold off on retirement out of distrust?

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

2023 108,387
2022 114,505
2021 96,956
2020 99,529
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 13:40     Subject: Trump buyout: resign by Feb 6, get paid until Sept 30
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The reporting now says that only 20k have taken the offer and deep cuts are likely if more do not accept. Is a RIF better than this deferred resignation?


The problem is that you are calling this a "deferred resignation. " It is not.

Ask instead: "Is a RIF better than popping my own joints out of socket so I can stab myself in the back with this fork, and how long will it take for me to bleed out?"


It’s not funny, but thank you for the laugh.