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Anonymous wrote:That's not what a RIF is, OP.

The OPM memo calls it a RIF.

Holy shit, the OPM memo is a bloodbath. Wow. The EO stopped short of this, this is absolutely nuts.

https://chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/OPM%20Memo%20Initial%20Guidance%20Regarding%20DEIA%20Executive%20Orders.pdf

I wonder how many acting heads are going to quit rather than send out those memos.
I honestly can’t see the person acting at my agency sending that out - she’s just the last one standing and as far as I can tell totally non-political.

The acting heads are named by the Trump administration, not volunteers or put into place by the previous administration. The remarkable thing about the transition is that they had all the acting heads identified and ready to roll. They will carry out the executive orders. The AH at your agency may seen totally non-political, and that may actually mean someone who kept her mouth shut in the last four years but privately supports removing DEI and is willing to work with the new administration. There will be plenty of people like her. I'm no Trump fan but even I see the problems with the excesses of many of the Biden Administration DEI policies.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wondering how many people impacted by this are straight white men? I’m guessing not to many.

Guessing not many White men got these jobs in the first place.

Exactly. So this is effectively targeting minorities.

Minorities and the fiefdoms they created by targeting others. It's come full circle.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wondering how many people impacted by this are straight white men? I’m guessing not to many.

Guessing not many White men got these jobs in the first place.

Exactly. So this is effectively targeting minorities.

For the person on the now locked post looking for resources: https://www.civilservicestrong.org/resources

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering how many people impacted by this are straight white men? I’m guessing not to many.

Guessing not many White men got these jobs in the first place.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI sucks and on January 21, 2021 they were forcing us to declare our pronouns in emails and meetings.

No they weren’t.

No one was ever forced, but there was a strong push for it and those who didn't may have looked bad to their peers. It's silly and I am glad it's on the downswing.

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Anonymous wrote:That NIH DEIA office is…something else.

It is so many people, so many of whom have degrees from online diploma mills. Or the director, who was educated at a Bible college.

It’s pretty much exactly the type of office that brought so much negative attention to DEI programs. You need 16 people to figure out how to hire more minorities? Come on now.

Anonymous wrote:DEI sucks and on January 21, 2021 they were forcing us to declare our pronouns in emails and meetings.

No they weren’t.

Anonymous wrote:DEI sucks and on January 21, 2021 they were forcing us to declare our pronouns in emails and meetings.

This. Thank god someone is doing something about this.

Pathetic an EO is required to not require nonsense like pronouns and say discriminatory comments at work, but here we are.

DEI sucks and on January 21, 2021 they were forcing us to declare our pronouns in emails and meetings.

Anonymous wrote:It was overblown at my agency. Glad to see it go.

Same - but I am not glad to see it go like this! This all seems really mean (in all senses of the word - small, petty, etc.)

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering how many people impacted by this are straight white men? I’m guessing not to many.

At my agency just one, but there may be others outside of this immediate office.

https://www.edi.nih.gov/meet-the-team/diversity-and-inclusion-division

Just wondering how many people impacted by this are straight white men? I’m guessing not to many.

Anonymous wrote:That NIH DEIA office is…something else.

It is so many people, so many of whom have degrees from online diploma mills. Or the director, who was educated at a Bible college.

I’m a federal employee whose job has nothing to do with DEI, but this OPM memo really has me freaked out. If I was OK with having so little job security, I would have stayed in the private sector.