• Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    The best option is probably take them up on that offer as soon as possible and start looking for a different job.

    If you don’t take the offer you will be fired anyway just later when the jobs are already filled outside.

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      You’ll never actually get the money. Trump doesn’t have a slush fund he can use for this. Congress would have to allocate funding and they almost certainly won’t. Or he’s basically a dictator and just won’t pay like he doesn’t pay his lawyers and contractors.

      They’re probably just trying to identify people who aren’t loyal to Trump so they can sideline or fire them. They don’t give a shit if some liberal gets scammed. I mean, Trump scams his own supporters. You think he gives a shit about scamming a liberal?

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      Meanwhile the federal government is running on a skeleton crew and millions of people get screwed over or go hungry or die.

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        So the suggestion is the people who voted for this government have no idea what they were doing and now the workers need to go against their own government to save America? If that would be so then democracy doesn’t work in America.

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          I’m not going to entertain Russian trolls. The majority of Americans did not vote for Trump, and the vast majority of those who did likely wouldn’t agree with a wholesale dismantling of their government. The ones that do agree can fuck right off for thinking Trump has any interest in their lives or wellbeing.

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            I’m not a Russian troll which you clearly can see from my posting history.

            The majority of Americans did not vote for Trump

            Then how does democracy work normally?

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        If you get hired back or work for the government within 5 years of your voluntary separation payout, you have to pay back the full amount before your first day back.

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          If you get hired back or work for the government within 5 years of your voluntary separation payout,

          If you work for a contracting company that contracts you to the government, wouldn’t that bypass that “gotcha”? As in, you work for the Federal Government, resign and get paid out. Then you get hired by Lockheed Martin as a contractor, and get placed back in the same work you were doing (but are now paid a higher rate because you’re a contractor and not a government employee on the GSA schedule". Would that not work?

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      The wording of the agreement was basically “in exchange for agreeing to quit in September, you can keep working from home.” You are expected to keep working and if you get another job they’ll stop paying you. Not as generous a deal as the headlines make it sound, but still may be the best choice for some people, especially people who expect to get let go anyway.