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Laura PourMeADrink

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20. Back in the Bush years

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 03:51 PM

Oct 2019

I had an assignment at USDA. They decided to uproot hundreds of employees to Albuquerque. People who had never known anything but DC and surrounding area. People whose friends and family were there. Many transferred out. Some moved and actually liked it. They were able to afford virtual mansions compared to DC.

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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