During one video meeting with a representative of Mr. Musk’s team, civil servants at the technology arm of the General Services Administration even bombarded an online chat with spoon emojis to express their displeasure at the deferred resignation offer known as the “fork in the road.” (Their bosses responded by removing spoons from the list of searchable emojis permitted in their videoconferencing platform.)

I heard about that, it was a Teams meeting so the emoji’s pop up on the video conference screen, and it was just an avalanche of spoons.

They’re going to try and make it sound like lots of people are taking the fork, and it’s saving money

But they’re letting people who took it in February extend to 12/31/25 and then retire…

Getting paid and benefits the entire time.

The vast majority taking it are people who were retiring before that, and probies who likely would have been let go anyways.

It’s going to cost agencies a shit ton of money, which is the point. Republicans don’t care about the actual funding, it’s just the excuse that’s easiest to defend. They’re fine spending the money if the work isn’t done anyways