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iluvtennis

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14. OK, that deserves an old school boo yah.

Reply to Thomas Hurt (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 03:02 PM

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The Trump Administration Has Figured out How to Get Rid of Federal Workers Without Firing Them [View all] babylonsister Oct 2019 OP

Sadly they have been doing this for a long time BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #1

of course government employees can be fired rampartc Oct 2019 #2

I was a fed. employee for 11 years. I babylonsister Oct 2019 #3

I know we can't seem to get rid of Trump no matter what he does.... Thomas Hurt Oct 2019 #4

OK, that deserves an old school boo yah. iluvtennis Oct 2019 #14

i am a retired federal employee rampartc Oct 2019 #5

Cuz they want to replace you with an apparatchik or ratf**ker. Thomas Hurt Oct 2019 #19

It may be hard to fire an individual employee, but it is not uncommon for Tanuki Oct 2019 #10

You are correct but that's what they do in corporate America as well Backseat Driver Oct 2019 #8

Federal civil service personnel responsibilities split up Backseat Driver Oct 2019 #6

This idea of moving Agencies out of D.C. Wellstone ruled Oct 2019 #7

Back in the 80s & 90s, banks/ins cos would do this to keep payroll low and purge higher paid clerks. TheBlackAdder Oct 2019 #9

It's particularly directed at the SCIENTISTS in EPA, NOAA, and Agriculture. Chinese hoax? So tRump a Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2019 #11

Republicans are sick, assed bastards... yuiyoshida Oct 2019 #12

It's an old Republican ploy. I remember GOP officials here in CA pulling that shit. SunSeeker Oct 2019 #13

Two reasons sh*t is running from the swamp... aka-chmeee Oct 2019 #15

let's send mulvaney a one-way ticket spanone Oct 2019 #16

"We don't fire people. We just make working here such a pain you'll want to quit." Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #17

This isn't a new way of forcing employees out. In the past it KPN Oct 2019 #18

Back in the Bush years Laura PourMeADrink Oct 2019 #20

Such action has a side 'benefit', replacing competent workers with compliant ones bigbrother05 Oct 2019 #21

I am currently reading "on Tyranny," Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy c-rational Oct 2019 #22

Contracting firms do this all the time, without reimbursing the relocation costs IronLionZion Oct 2019 #23

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