It's not a buyout. You have to go to work. It's an 'advances resignation' there is no severance you agree to do your job until the end of the fiscal year in September and then resign.
It depends, some people will be allowed to work remotely until the end of September and others will be placed on administrative leave and simply collect a check for doing nothing. Look at it this way- if it was simply an advanced resignation with no benefit, why would they expect anyone to take the offer? "You agree to lose your job and get nothing in return" is not particularly persuasive.
The thing anti-vax people misunderstand is that vaccines are not "drugs", introducing foreign substances with unknown consequences. Rather, they are useful *practice* for a person's immune system. Become infected with any bacterial or viral disease, and your immune system can *eventually* identify and attack that pathogen. But it takes time. The question is whether the pathogen has proliferated *so* significantly by the time your immune response is up to speed, that you're irreparably harmed. Vaccines provide "practice" that permits your immune system to respond more quickly. Would vaccine skeptics accept a rule/law that prohibited ANY and all practice of any kind, prior to professional sporting events, whether it be NBA, NHL, NFL or even the Olympics? Would they expect such prohibition to result in a surfeit of injuries, or would they expect athlete efforts without ANY repercussions?
Will the OPM survey federal employees any more? Since the days of Pres. Bush, the OPM has been conducting the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) on an annual basis. Such surveys can benefit from allowing management time to actually understand and take corrective action on any issues identified by employees. A one year gap does not allow that; especially when you consider that it takes months for the last survey results to be provided to agencies. Understandably, employee attitudes expressed can be cynical. Given the current upheaval in the public service, my sense is that the FEVS will likely be cancelled by OPM. The *stated* rationale will likely be cost savings, but the underlying strategy will clearly be to avoid the sort of survey results one can expect in the current circumstances.
The NYT has lost control of the narrative. I'm enjoying watching them scramble to get it back. The Daily yesterday was a real whopper and Ezra Klein just gave up and turned comments off! Good look with that!
Just like what Musk did with Twitter. I'm sure it will go just as well for our government as it did for Twitter.
It's not a buyout. You have to go to work. It's an 'advances resignation' there is no severance you agree to do your job until the end of the fiscal year in September and then resign.
It depends, some people will be allowed to work remotely until the end of September and others will be placed on administrative leave and simply collect a check for doing nothing.
Look at it this way- if it was simply an advanced resignation with no benefit, why would they expect anyone to take the offer? "You agree to lose your job and get nothing in return" is not particularly persuasive.
As someone who depends on government services, this is one of the things I've been afraid of.
Let’s go RFK! 🇺🇸
The thing anti-vax people misunderstand is that vaccines are not "drugs", introducing foreign substances with unknown consequences. Rather, they are useful *practice* for a person's immune system. Become infected with any bacterial or viral disease, and your immune system can *eventually* identify and attack that pathogen. But it takes time. The question is whether the pathogen has proliferated *so* significantly by the time your immune response is up to speed, that you're irreparably harmed. Vaccines provide "practice" that permits your immune system to respond more quickly.
Would vaccine skeptics accept a rule/law that prohibited ANY and all practice of any kind, prior to professional sporting events, whether it be NBA, NHL, NFL or even the Olympics? Would they expect such prohibition to result in a surfeit of injuries, or would they expect athlete efforts without ANY repercussions?
Will the OPM survey federal employees any more?
Since the days of Pres. Bush, the OPM has been conducting the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) on an annual basis. Such surveys can benefit from allowing management time to actually understand and take corrective action on any issues identified by employees. A one year gap does not allow that; especially when you consider that it takes months for the last survey results to be provided to agencies. Understandably, employee attitudes expressed can be cynical. Given the current upheaval in the public service, my sense is that the FEVS will likely be cancelled by OPM. The *stated* rationale will likely be cost savings, but the underlying strategy will clearly be to avoid the sort of survey results one can expect in the current circumstances.
Last ditch effort for the Big Pharma bucks!!!
If our government is of, for and by us then why insist on it being downsized?
Makes it easier to f over the little guy, if you gut the services protecting them.
WAT
We will evolve as a species. Soon, our eyes and thumbs will be larger and our brains smaller.
The resistance propaganda begins.
MAHA!!
Yes!
Someone please come and collect your Boomer, they've enabled caps lock and they're typing incoherent nonsense in a comments section.
MAHA…and…MAGA. NYT is always entertaining to watch. 🇺🇸
Republican 1% Dems 20% independence 70% majority
Streamlining our bloated government... soon thereafter though, I bet we'll see a rise of outsourcing.
At incredibly higher cost and likely toward Trump and Musk businesses.
@@timo5601 Exactly
All tech workers will be replaced by cheaper foreign workers.
Why would the postal service be exempt?
They are efficient enough and don’t need to be cut. Is my guess…
IIRC, within the last 10 years, the postal service was drastically downsized.
The NYT has lost control of the narrative. I'm enjoying watching them scramble to get it back. The Daily yesterday was a real whopper and Ezra Klein just gave up and turned comments off! Good look with that!
I check in once a week to LOL. Fun to watch the intelligentsia struggle to understand basic American culture and politics.
Haha, turning off the comments was hilarious.
@@MathiasWarwick they really are clueless
@@MathiasWarwick They'd like you to believe they're the intelligentsia, but mostly they're just people who will break your thumbs if you don''t
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 these people do not understand how the internet works
Congress needs to control spending. The President has little control over it. Period. Stephen Miller is foolish to assert otherwise.
It’s not a buyout offer
This is an extremely normal thing for anyone who work anywhere but the federal government. Most people don’t get a penny of severance
IT IS CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF NOT THE SUBSTANCE!
I love NYT news headlines. It's an excellent idea