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Trump Administration rehires hundreds of laid-off employees (during Elon/DOGE)

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You know what REAL business leaders would have done?

Eval all departments for what could be cut without totally ****ing shit up. But that's WAY too sane and WAY too mature for this Administration/Elon.



"The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.

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“Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”

Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months. He said the sudden reversal of the downsizing reflects how Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had gone too far, too fast."



 
It's not that it went too far or too fast, it's that it happened at all.

One principle quality of stupid people is that they believe everyone else's job is easy. Therefore they believe that running a country with a third of a billion people in it should take maybe 12 people, tops.

The other thing about stupid people is that they can't do math. The entire payroll of the civilian portion of the federal government was 4% of the budget.

Musk was out to castrate the USA, not save money.
 


TACO

Anyway, the long, drawn-out distraction worked.
 
"a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayer"
 
Nice! More jobs! Be tthe people rehired are happy, and this should help them and their families.

Good news.
 


I said it once, and i'll say it again: NO CONSIDERATION FOR THE LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES

Just whack whack whack away at personnel to have some happy-looking numbers to present to the public, showing us His Highness saved us money.
 
I said it once, and i'll say it again: NO CONSIDERATION FOR THE LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES

Just whack whack whack away at personnel to have some happy-looking numbers to present to the public, showing us His Highness saved us money.


Long ago I worked in the newsroom of a new, upstart television station.

They exploded on the scene and hired the top news people they could.

A year later they were poised for bankruptcy as they failed to convert the news staff into viewership because of really really bad pr, technical errors and a controversial million dollar contract for a burnt out DJ to read the news. I was from out of town and knew none of the mistakes they were making. I went for the money, double what I was making in radio.

Turned out they didn't hire and news trained people, they hired models (male and female) who could read well,but had NO CLUE what they were reading. I
 

Sounds like Trump's cabinet Secs.
 
Nice! More jobs! Be tthe people rehired are happy, and this should help them and their families.

Good news.

I bet they'd be happier if they just kept their jobs, and hadn't been fired for no reason first, then rehired.

In fact, I have a couple clients who are going to walk away getting both their jobs back, and a nice settlement, straight from the taxpayers.
 

Long ago I worked in the newsroom of a new, upstart television station.

They exploded on the scene and hired the top news people they could.

A year later they were poised for bankruptcy as they failed to convert the news staff into viewership because of really really bad pr, technical errors and a controversial million dollar contract for a burnt out DJ to read the news. I was from out of town and knew none of the mistakes they were making. I went for the money, double what I was making in radio.

Turned out they didn't hire any news trained people, they hired models (male and female) who could read well,but had NO CLUE what they were reading. I recall being asked if "committee of the hole" meant they actually met in a hole and "why" by an anchor.

I told him "yes" and the reason was secret.
 
Awesome! Good for them.

Sucks they soak the tax payer, but some people don't want a job, just money. Everyone will be better off this way.
 


They're not "soaking the taxpayer," they're recovering damages from their employer, who wronged them.
Yes, tax payers wronged them somehow, so best they sue.

Again, I see why they want the money, it just sucks that our taxes could go to free health care and weapons to Ukraine.
 
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