Anonymous
03/30/2025 10:36
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:The acting FDA Commissioner just sent a stupid little note cheering the layoffs and asking for “patience, grace, and sanguinity.”
Don’t expect good judgment from her
https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/print-edition/2016/05/13/40-under-40-sara-brenner.html
Anonymous
03/30/2025 09:27
Subject: HHS RIF
Isn’t it considered a security risk to allow fired employees to continue to access systems? There were other reports that people notified of layoffs were cut off from their computers after an hour.
Anonymous
03/30/2025 07:22
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s no end to the cruelty. RIFs announced but people are forced to wait over a weekend and possibly into Monday to find out and told they’ll need to work through what would have been their administrative leave period. It’s so insane.
Work to do what.....if the administration is saying their roles are no longer needed ..?
Apparently they are going to give us 60 days notice but make us work the entire time.
Hold up a second...If they think your job is so important that you have to continue to do it for 60 days then how can they say your job is so unimportant that no one needs to do it 61 days?
It’s about screwing over anyone who gets a new job and can’t wait out the 60 days. No severance for those people. People on admin leave have been told they can work another job, but they won’t allow that kindness now.
They know people will be scrambling and forced to take lower-paying work. In the ordinary situation, VSIP would be available during the RIF notice, and anyone who leaves before the RIF is executed could take it. It would still pay less than severance for many, but it would be better than nothing.
Under what HHS is rumored to be doing, people will be forced to gamble on whether to take a crappy job now and give up tens of thousands of dollars, or wait the entire RIF period and risk entering an even worse job market.
Well that's definitely screwed up. I guess people could take the opportunity to use some sick leave and schedule any upcoming or deferred doctors, dental, eye doctor appointments during that time period. I think in most situations continuing to work those sixty days is better than quitting because severance is almost certainly a better deal unless someone is very new. They also continue to accrue additional annual leave that will be paid out post separation during that time.
Anonymous
03/30/2025 07:12
Subject: HHS RIF
Wow. That is cold.
Anonymous
03/30/2025 07:03
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s no end to the cruelty. RIFs announced but people are forced to wait over a weekend and possibly into Monday to find out and told they’ll need to work through what would have been their administrative leave period. It’s so insane.
Work to do what.....if the administration is saying their roles are no longer needed ..?
Apparently they are going to give us 60 days notice but make us work the entire time.
Hold up a second...If they think your job is so important that you have to continue to do it for 60 days then how can they say your job is so unimportant that no one needs to do it 61 days?
It’s about screwing over anyone who gets a new job and can’t wait out the 60 days. No severance for those people. People on admin leave have been told they can work another job, but they won’t allow that kindness now.
They know people will be scrambling and forced to take lower-paying work. In the ordinary situation, VSIP would be available during the RIF notice, and anyone who leaves before the RIF is executed could take it. It would still pay less than severance for many, but it would be better than nothing.
Under what HHS is rumored to be doing, people will be forced to gamble on whether to take a crappy job now and give up tens of thousands of dollars, or wait the entire RIF period and risk entering an even worse job market.
Anonymous
03/30/2025 05:53
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s no end to the cruelty. RIFs announced but people are forced to wait over a weekend and possibly into Monday to find out and told they’ll need to work through what would have been their administrative leave period. It’s so insane.
Work to do what.....if the administration is saying their roles are no longer needed ..?
Apparently they are going to give us 60 days notice but make us work the entire time.
Hold up a second...If they think your job is so important that you have to continue to do it for 60 days then how can they say your job is so unimportant that no one needs to do it 61 days?
Anonymous
03/29/2025 21:06
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s no end to the cruelty. RIFs announced but people are forced to wait over a weekend and possibly into Monday to find out and told they’ll need to work through what would have been their administrative leave period. It’s so insane.
Work to do what.....if the administration is saying their roles are no longer needed ..?
Apparently they are going to give us 60 days notice but make us work the entire time.
Where did that information come from?
Anonymous
03/29/2025 17:33
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s no end to the cruelty. RIFs announced but people are forced to wait over a weekend and possibly into Monday to find out and told they’ll need to work through what would have been their administrative leave period. It’s so insane.
Work to do what.....if the administration is saying their roles are no longer needed ..?
Apparently they are going to give us 60 days notice but make us work the entire time.
Anonymous
03/29/2025 16:44
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:There’s no end to the cruelty. RIFs announced but people are forced to wait over a weekend and possibly into Monday to find out and told they’ll need to work through what would have been their administrative leave period. It’s so insane.
Work to do what.....if the administration is saying their roles are no longer needed ..?
Anonymous
03/29/2025 16:20
Subject: HHS RIF
There’s no end to the cruelty. RIFs announced but people are forced to wait over a weekend and possibly into Monday to find out and told they’ll need to work through what would have been their administrative leave period. It’s so insane.
Anonymous
03/28/2025 21:08
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Reddit HHS thread on these “RIFs” is brutal. Entire offices being decimated.
HRSA- our Bureau lost 160 out of about 400 and as of yesterday everyone thought we were safe. Sr. leaders didnt find out until this morning. No one seems to have gotten notices. Entire offices being shut down- not based on any one's skill, actual work or the role they serve.
PRB? bHW?
Anonymous
03/28/2025 20:28
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Reddit HHS thread on these “RIFs” is brutal. Entire offices being decimated.
HRSA- our Bureau lost 160 out of about 400 and as of yesterday everyone thought we were safe. Sr. leaders didnt find out until this morning. No one seems to have gotten notices. Entire offices being shut down- not based on any one's skill, actual work or the role they serve.
+1 different HRSA Bureau (not the same number of people so I know we’re another one) and the loss has been huge. Verbally told. Waiting for the actual notices. It is all full offices, branches, or divisions as others have said like they did in RIFs at OPM and GSA so this didn’t surprise me but we didn’t expect these types of numbers, nothing had been leaked about HRSA barely at all. And it almost feels random in terms of what offices were picked and what was left. It is horrible.
Per Reddit HHS office of minority health and CMS office of minority health also RIFed. Some other smaller ones I can’t remember office of infectious disease and HIV/aids policy I think.
I’m so sorry 😔
Anonymous
03/28/2025 20:22
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Reddit HHS thread on these “RIFs” is brutal. Entire offices being decimated.
HRSA- our Bureau lost 160 out of about 400 and as of yesterday everyone thought we were safe. Sr. leaders didnt find out until this morning. No one seems to have gotten notices. Entire offices being shut down- not based on any one's skill, actual work or the role they serve.
+1 different HRSA Bureau (not the same number of people so I know we’re another one) and the loss has been huge. Verbally told. Waiting for the actual notices. It is all full offices, branches, or divisions as others have said like they did in RIFs at OPM and GSA so this didn’t surprise me but we didn’t expect these types of numbers, nothing had been leaked about HRSA barely at all. And it almost feels random in terms of what offices were picked and what was left. It is horrible.
Per Reddit HHS office of minority health and CMS office of minority health also RIFed. Some other smaller ones I can’t remember office of infectious disease and HIV/aids policy I think.
Anonymous
03/28/2025 20:21
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Reddit HHS thread on these “RIFs” is brutal. Entire offices being decimated.
Link?
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeptHHS/comments/1jljf5t/rif_notice_report_here/?share_id=gefj07eblNaTTBxbWtoOs&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1&sort=new
Anonymous
03/28/2025 20:11
Subject: HHS RIF
Anonymous wrote:The Reddit HHS thread on these “RIFs” is brutal. Entire offices being decimated.
HRSA- our Bureau lost 160 out of about 400 and as of yesterday everyone thought we were safe. Sr. leaders didnt find out until this morning. No one seems to have gotten notices. Entire offices being shut down- not based on any one's skill, actual work or the role they serve.