Anonymous wrote:Constructive discharge is an employment law concept where an employee's resignation is treated as an involuntary termination because the employer created working conditions so intolerable that a reasonable person would have been forced to quit.

https://spigglelaw.com/constructive-discharge-what-you-need-to-know/

The FFRDC I worked for shouldn't have hired me because they should have anticipated that the Federal Government was going to be taken over by a bunch of arsonists. Good luck with that.

Constructive discharge is an employment law concept where an employee's resignation is treated as an involuntary termination because the employer created working conditions so intolerable that a reasonable person would have been forced to quit.

https://spigglelaw.com/constructive-discharge-what-you-need-to-know/

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised MITRE is so open about its RIFs because others do it quietly without announcements.

They cannot hide them due to the size of each RIF. Each of their RIFs has been large enough to trigger the legal requirement to file (public) WARN notices with the Commonwealth of Virginia. Below a certain size, RIFs do not require such filings with the Commonwealth.

Anyone can do a web search and find all WARN notice filings from all organizations.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised MITRE is so open about its RIFs because others do it quietly without announcements.

MITRE is a lot bigger. Probably so are their RIFs.

Give Mitre credit for not quietly pushing folks out.

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised MITRE is so open about its RIFs because others do it quietly without announcements.

MITRE is a lot bigger. Probably so are their RIFs.

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised MITRE is so open about its RIFs because others do it quietly without announcements.

Like who?

I'm surprised MITRE is so open about its RIFs because others do it quietly without announcements.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).[/quote]

That makes 2,000+ people I'm the last 18 months. That's over 20% of the company. Crazy[/quote]

This will not be the last one. More to come as projects expire, particularly in the public sector space.

[quote=Anonymous][quote]I do not work for rand but it sure seems from the outside that people who work there hate it[/quote]

Lots of organizations have employees who at some point hate it. The difference is that at RAND, they choose to stay.[/quote]

Why?

[quote]I do not work for rand but it sure seems from the outside that people who work there hate it[/quote]

Lots of organizations have employees who at some point hate it. The difference is that at RAND, they choose to stay.

RAND's CEO brought a lot of bad press from most of his initiatives pretty much since his first year in the job...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-funding-ai-policy-00121362

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/15/billionaire-backed-think-tank-played-key-role-in-bidens-ai-order-00132128

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/26/ai-rand-congress-00133193

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2023/12/18/whos-really-driving-ai-policy-00132306

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ai-doomers-have-infiltrated-washington/

https://slate.com/technology/2023/11/openai-sam-altman-ai-microsoft-eacc-effective-altruism.html

https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/early-article-the-failed-strategy

https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/us-news/commerce-secretary-howard-lutnick-voids-illegal-7-4b-agreement-to-pay-biden-staffed-nonprofit-for-semiconductor-research/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/meet-ex-biden-appointee-who-could-be-major-force-against-trumps-ai-agenda-doomsayer

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/technology/nvidia-china-chip-sales-ai-doomerism.html

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).[/quote]

That makes 2,000+ people I'm the last 18 months. That's over 20% of the company. Crazy[/quote]

That’s so awful. RAND will surpass this achievement. [/quote]

i do not work for rand but it sure seems from the outside that people who work there hate it

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).[/quote]

That makes 2,000+ people I'm the last 18 months. That's over 20% of the company. Crazy[/quote]

That’s so awful. RAND will surpass this achievement.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).[/quote]

That makes 2,000+ people I'm the last 18 months. That's over 20% of the company. Crazy[/quote]

Holy cow!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).[/quote]

That makes 2,000+ people I'm the last 18 months. That's over 20% of the company. Crazy