Summary
Elon Musk and his allies have reportedly taken control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and bypassed officials to send a mass resignation email to over 2.3 million federal employees.
The email, titled “Fork in the Road,” offers buyouts to those who voluntarily resign, mirroring a similar approach Musk used at Twitter.
Musk has placed close associates in leadership positions at OPM, raising concerns over his growing influence in Trump’s administration.
Federal employees remain skeptical about the buyout’s legitimacy.
Here’s the problem with this. Employees who take voluntary layoffs often have a lot of confidence in their ability to find new work. They believe in their skills and aren’t worried about landing another job. On the other hand, those who stay might be less motivated and less sure about their chances in the job market. They might feel uncertain about being hired elsewhere, which can lead to feeling stuck and less satisfied with their job. This creates a situation where the more confident and capable employees are the ones who are more likely to leave, while those who stay might be more cautious or less optimistic about their career options.
So what you end up doing is scraping the cream from the top and leaving the less talented. In the business world this is a good way to boost short term profits but what you’re left with often goes bankrupt. It’s happened multiple times in the tech world.
You see, your mistake was thinking that they want to make things better and are just misguided. The point is to gut the government and make it bad.
He didn’t seize shit…
They made up an email address, claimed it was OPM, then spent an afternoon pretending to be official between that and the fork in the road email.
Apparently from metadata, it’s not even a real email for OPM, it’s being spoofed.
The whole thing is an absolute shit show.
But on the upside all it seems to be doing is delaying the retirements of everyone who was already planning on leaving when trump came back.
They have no idea what a bureaucrat will put up with out of spite, and a large amount of Feds didn’t like their loyalty called into question by some ai slop pretending to be from a federal agency.
Edit:
They sent another last night too, a “FAQ” talking about how you’ll get paid till the end of the fiscal year…
Like government employees aren’t fucking aware we’re on a continuing resolution… There’s zero money to offer here, and a “FAQ” isn’t binding.
That’s not even getting I to how a couple agencies are saying if anyone takes it, they lose the position for good.
Like a 10 person office, if 2 take it, it’s now permanently an 8 person office.
It’s an obvious trick. And all it’s doing is galvanizing the federal workforce
Edit 2:
And if you’re not up to speed, the emails are 100% “written” by the 19 year old using chatbots.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-hires-trump-office-personnel-183345778.html
My wife shared a thread from Reddit with me where a lot of federal workers who were feeling demotivated and like they may want to bail are now saying they will absolutely not leave, and will resist.
It’s one thing to proceed methodically and slowly and to strangle the workers off in ways that can’t be overcome. It’s entirely another to try to trick them into quitting and rug pull them.
In their shoes, I would be going full bureaucrat mode. To the extent legally possible, every HR, or HR-like email gets printed or stored somewhere that isn’t on a server that it can be remotely deleted from. Every meeting recorded. Every document preserved to the fullest extent that the law/FOIA/retention policies require. Heck, they should probably try to preemptively have a shortlist of employment lawyers, or even have a consult with one to make sure they’re being proactive for what may come.
I mean, if they like the job and want to fight for it/want to slow down these insidious changes.isn’t on a server that it can be remotely deleted from.
The scuttlebutt is all the HR@opm emails are coming from an outside server someone just walked into OPM and plugged into the network lol.
It’s a total shit show
