Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 16:33     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
If you resign from federal service and have not yet met your minimum retirement age, you will lose your federal health insurance, you will not be able to start collecting your pension until age 62 and you will not be eligible for the FERS supplement. It is not a smart move.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 16:29     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know people who are taking it. They are not in bargaining units, subject to Schedule F, and expected to RTO soon. That's a perfect storm of feeling very expanded and immediately hit with inflexibility anyway.


*exposed

Specifically some at DOJ - there are other options for lawyers (and others)


I do know of a DOJ lawyer who is WFH and expected to RTO soon who is eligible for retirement anyway who is probably taking it.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 16:26     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do you know of anybody who actually replied to the email and resigned? Everything I read suggests that it’s a very bad idea because there’s no guarantee of anything. I wonder how many people have taken the bait.


If they did they were fools.

Musk is never paying them
Trump is never paying them.

Those are facts.

I took the offer. No way I'm going back to office.


No one thinks you're real.


DP. I think they are.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 16:25     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do you know of anybody who actually replied to the email and resigned? Everything I read suggests that it’s a very bad idea because there’s no guarantee of anything. I wonder how many people have taken the bait.


If they did they were fools.

Musk is never paying them
Trump is never paying them.

Those are facts.


I'm skeptical that everyone will get paid ... but I don't think you know what "facts" are.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 16:23     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The latest email floating around now says the billets of employees who elect to Resign will be eliminated.


What does billets mean?

The billet is the position that a person fills. Billets are what are funded by Congress. If you want more billets, you need to POM for that and get the funding in (the next/a future) FY; when the funded billet arrives, then you can begin a hiring action to fill that billet with a human employee.

So when someone Resigns under Amanda Musk's program, their billet should go away. Meaning there is no backfill, no hiring action, that job just stops getting done.

Or you get an FTE to do it.


I assumed that was implied. If someone quits, they will just reassign work and that will now be the structure of a smaller agency. The goal is less people ie less billets.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:56     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:Managers and others at the FDIC need to be Riffed. It’s criminal there.
Can you elaborate?
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:55     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: They never even offered to buy toilet paper!
What about eggs?

In my youth, eggs and toilet paper were so prevalent we would throw them at the houses of our enemies.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:54     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:I've had heard that people are taking it. They are all people eligible to retire who planned to retire this year anyways. Nothing to really lose for them...just extra $


Fake news.

No extra money. You still have to work.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:54     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The latest email floating around now says the billets of employees who elect to Resign will be eliminated.


What does billets mean?

The billet is the position that a person fills. Billets are what are funded by Congress. If you want more billets, you need to POM for that and get the funding in (the next/a future) FY; when the funded billet arrives, then you can begin a hiring action to fill that billet with a human employee.

So when someone Resigns under Amanda Musk's program, their billet should go away. Meaning there is no backfill, no hiring action, that job just stops getting done.

Or you get an FTE to do it.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:53     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The latest email floating around now says the billets of employees who elect to Resign will be eliminated.

By firing squad?


No, Amanda Scales said the billet will be eliminated because No Fed shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

No more lazy feds claiming they can bunk down in your house. couldn’t come at a better time - I was getting REAL sick of the GS9 GPO guys sleeping in my basement although the damn SES in my guest bedroom was the worst. Don’t get me started on the finregs - they would NOT shut up. They never even offered to buy toilet paper!
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:53     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Washington Post today said the offer wasn't even authorized by the OPM or anyone official, so it seems nuts for anyone to take it.

In the private sector, if you are offered a "buyout" it typically is fairly generous...like 18 months salary, plus 18 months of benefits...with the 18 months salary provided in a lump-sum up-front payment.

It used to be fairly common (maybe still is) among the large F500 old-school companies like say GE. Before implementing layoffs they would first try to induce people to voluntarily resign through a buyout.

The same WaPo was breathlessly reporting this “buyout” as the deal of the century yesterday.


Buy outs private sector are not that generous for staff. My last two places two weeks per year staff, three weeks per year managers, four weeks per year VPs and six weeks per year SVPS and up.

And my last place did not provide any medical coverage in plane. But did provide pro-rated bonus.

And EVERY company I worked at and I have seen severance plans at multiple companies it maxes out at one year severance unless you have a contract like a CEO.

If you gave everyone 18 months pay with 18 months medical like 80 percent of company would take it.


But are they also imaginary/illegal, is the question.


At a Musk company, yes.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:50     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The latest email floating around now says the billets of employees who elect to Resign will be eliminated.


source?
Go away, Amanda.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:48     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:The latest email floating around now says the billets of employees who elect to Resign will be eliminated.


source?
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:43     Subject: Re:Did any Feds resign?
I fear there are a number of GS5s out there who think they can go home and get paid until September.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 15:42     Subject: Did any Feds resign?
Anonymous wrote:The latest email floating around now says the billets of employees who elect to Resign will be eliminated.

By firing squad?