Trump fires thousands for "performance" without any evidence in error plagued firing frenzy.

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yea, that would work out just as I predicted, $250 a day, because someone has got to make a profit.

Your tax dollars would be better spent on government contracts for SpaceX.

Dolt.

My contracting company made a profit and still didn't wreck the Army's budget. If you were running it, it might have because you are an idiot.

 

[Leo123]

This is the very definition of a man made disaster. Giving someone of this temperment the keys to the front door is only just beginning to show what a looming trainwreck is rolling down the tracks. It has been remarkably bad in only just a matter of weeks. The reason it is going to get so much worse is because of this brain drain that our federal government is currently undergoing. Even if all these jobs are refilled the experience that was there is all gone. Will take years to repair the damage done in weeks.





The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

“I’m glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person,” her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. “So we can add a little human touch to what’s going on.”

Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years’ probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

Critics warned of swift consequences as the administration raced to execute a vision Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have touted for a leaner, reshaped government. The latest wave of personnel actions already prompted an administrative complaint on behalf of workers at nine agencies, adding to more than a dozen legal tests of Trump’s power filed one month into his term.

The Trump administration will not disclose how many workers it cut since last week ahead of its Tuesday deadline, but the government employed more than 200,000 probationary workers as of last year. The firings have extended to touch employees at almost every agency, including map makers, archaeologists and cancer researchers, The Post found, in choices that some workers said contradicted a U.S. Office of Personnel Management directive to retain “mission-critical” workers.

This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications reviewed by The Post.

The Federal Aviation Administration let go hundreds of technicians and engineers just weeks after a midair collision a few miles from the White House killed 67 people, eliciting promises from Trump officials to improve air safety, workers said in interviews. FEMA, which handles the nation’s natural disasters, is preparing to fire hundreds of probationary employees, according to four people familiar with the situation who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The agency is already stretched thin responding to fires in California and floods in Kentucky. And the administration terminated scores of employees who work to bolster the nation’s nuclear defense, only to realize its error and start reversing the firings.

WaPo

WaPo needs to 'wipe' after unloading that pile of stinking shit. That is all they have left now. Pretend, La La Land reportage. WaPo is getting flushed.

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[NewsVine_Mariyam]

So what is the reasoning for the cruelty and nastiness with which these dismissals are being carried out?

 

[Seymour Flops]

So what is the reasoning for the cruelty and nastiness with which these dismissals are being carried out?

I cannot read the Trump Administration's mind. But, I have to think it has to do with these last minute hires being done for the purpose of recruiting people whose mission will be (or would have been) to undermine Trump while ostensibly serving in his administration.

Trump saw the last minute STOP TRUMP moves by Democrat activists getting federal paychecks as Biden left office, and he well remembers how the same kind of activists worked so hard to topple him during his own first administration.

So, probably not a lot of warm fuzzy feelings for such people.

 

[Frankenstein]

This is the very definition of a man made disaster. Giving someone of this temperment the keys to the front door is only just beginning to show what a looming trainwreck is rolling down the tracks. It has been remarkably bad in only just a matter of weeks. The reason it is going to get so much worse is because of this brain drain that our federal government is currently undergoing. Even if all these jobs are refilled the experience that was there is all gone. Will take years to repair the damage done in weeks.





The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

“I’m glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person,” her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. “So we can add a little human touch to what’s going on.”

Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years’ probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

Critics warned of swift consequences as the administration raced to execute a vision Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have touted for a leaner, reshaped government. The latest wave of personnel actions already prompted an administrative complaint on behalf of workers at nine agencies, adding to more than a dozen legal tests of Trump’s power filed one month into his term.

The Trump administration will not disclose how many workers it cut since last week ahead of its Tuesday deadline, but the government employed more than 200,000 probationary workers as of last year. The firings have extended to touch employees at almost every agency, including map makers, archaeologists and cancer researchers, The Post found, in choices that some workers said contradicted a U.S. Office of Personnel Management directive to retain “mission-critical” workers.

This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications reviewed by The Post.

The Federal Aviation Administration let go hundreds of technicians and engineers just weeks after a midair collision a few miles from the White House killed 67 people, eliciting promises from Trump officials to improve air safety, workers said in interviews. FEMA, which handles the nation’s natural disasters, is preparing to fire hundreds of probationary employees, according to four people familiar with the situation who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The agency is already stretched thin responding to fires in California and floods in Kentucky. And the administration terminated scores of employees who work to bolster the nation’s nuclear defense, only to realize its error and start reversing the firings.

WaPo

WAPO?

 

[Independent thinker]

This is the very definition of a man made disaster. Giving someone of this temperment the keys to the front door is only just beginning to show what a looming trainwreck is rolling down the tracks. It has been remarkably bad in only just a matter of weeks. The reason it is going to get so much worse is because of this brain drain that our federal government is currently undergoing. Even if all these jobs are refilled the experience that was there is all gone. Will take years to repair the damage done in weeks.





The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

“I’m glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person,” her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. “So we can add a little human touch to what’s going on.”

Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years’ probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

Critics warned of swift consequences as the administration raced to execute a vision Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have touted for a leaner, reshaped government. The latest wave of personnel actions already prompted an administrative complaint on behalf of workers at nine agencies, adding to more than a dozen legal tests of Trump’s power filed one month into his term.

The Trump administration will not disclose how many workers it cut since last week ahead of its Tuesday deadline, but the government employed more than 200,000 probationary workers as of last year. The firings have extended to touch employees at almost every agency, including map makers, archaeologists and cancer researchers, The Post found, in choices that some workers said contradicted a U.S. Office of Personnel Management directive to retain “mission-critical” workers.

This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications reviewed by The Post.

The Federal Aviation Administration let go hundreds of technicians and engineers just weeks after a midair collision a few miles from the White House killed 67 people, eliciting promises from Trump officials to improve air safety, workers said in interviews. FEMA, which handles the nation’s natural disasters, is preparing to fire hundreds of probationary employees, according to four people familiar with the situation who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The agency is already stretched thin responding to fires in California and floods in Kentucky. And the administration terminated scores of employees who work to bolster the nation’s nuclear defense, only to realize its error and start reversing the firings.

WaPo

If they are probationary, they are probationary. You don't really need a reason to fire them.

 

[CowboyTed]

Nothing wrong with that.

Really...

I have been working at home for about 12 years... More productive, better work life balance, so I have less distractions at work...

I work in a garden office... No distractions... I actually encvourage far less meetings and more write it down and read, then comment... Actually we are sick 'Meeting Whores', people who just go from meeting to meeting spouting opinions like they are at the bar...

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Actually your response falls under this:

Sturgeon's law - Wikipedia

If We Take the Con out of Contemporary Art, Its Fad Will Be Only Temporary

The Van Gogh fallacy: that a great artist was rejected by the critics of his time, so any squiggle that gets painted today is also under-appreciated.

This covers up the fact that over 99% of what was rejected in Van Gogh's time was junk, is still considered to be junk, and always will be junk.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

You got your wish.

Hope your ox isn't gored (actually, that would be entirely appropriate)

Ox gored? I want a meat plant style butchering of millions of government workers jobs.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

This is real world, people impacted by President Musk and the Emperor.



Employees who were told their performance was at issue said they had earned evaluations, reviewed by The Post, that offered evidence of their good work.

“Above fully successful,” read a November assessment of a fired General Services Administration worker.
“An outstanding year, consistently exceeding expectations,” stated a review for a former NIH employee, whose manager credited her for “mastering a steep learning curve and becoming an invaluable asset.”

One well-rated Veterans Affairs staffer texted her boss to complain after she was fired. In text messages obtained by The Post, he replied: “It states it’s due to your performance which is not true. … Your performance has nothing to do with this.”

Others were stunned to find themselves included in the probationary category, including a federal nurse with more than five years of government employment who recently moved under military orders with her spouse — and had to switch agencies as a result. Now she’s out of a job.

A veteran of the National Park Service, who had worked at parks including Yosemite, Shenandoah and the Great Smoky Mountains, last year left a permanent position to accept a promotion in a new park. There, she was told she’d have to serve one year of probation. On Valentine’s Day, she was fired for “performance,” ending a quarter-century of service.

“It is very brutal,” she said. “Especially after working and dedicating most of my life to the NPS.”
Some lamented that they had hoped to forge careers in federal service but won’t get the chance.

When They Click with the Clique, They Can Jump for Joy and Click Their Heels

The whole gubmint culture is rotten, which means dead-wood employees get commendations based on how well they conform to that culture.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

That would work really well, they would all become playgrounds for the wealthy, considering the $250 entrance fee (per day).

This is exactly the reason we pay taxes, but now this money will somehow end up in the hands of those who least need it,

Those Sitting Pretty Want Us to Believe That Nature Is Only a Pretty Sight

Developing the resources in the Zero-Growth Gurus' National Parks instead of making them playgrounds will create high-paying jobs and inexpensive products. Cutting off half our potential widespread wealth is a disgrace.

Never trust the warm-and-fuzzy ideas of the Trustfundee Treehuggers. They have a vicious ulterior motive.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I paid taxes for the CVN 73

Drowning, Efficiency Ignored

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You won't have FEMA soon.

Wasted in Barracks Duty

It's a job for a standing army. National Guards should also be disbanded.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The parks could do the same by contracting out the operation and maintenance.

Nature Is Nothing More Than Raw Material

Only contracts for logging, mining, and drilling are good for the nation.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I'm not here to educate you, but I'll help get you started.

Click here for more info.

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Never click such a suspicious looking "link" posted by a left cultist. They break your machine.










.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

WaPo needs to 'wipe' after unloading that pile of stinking shit. That is all they have left now. Pretend, La La Land reportage. WaPo is getting flushed.

Washington Post traffic craters, loses $100M amid identity crisis as talent, readers flee: reports​

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Jurinalists Can Piss Off

 

[Leo123]

Jurinalists Can Piss Off

WaPo is not journalism.

 

[mudwhistle]

This is the very definition of a man made disaster. Giving someone of this temperment the keys to the front door is only just beginning to show what a looming trainwreck is rolling down the tracks. It has been remarkably bad in only just a matter of weeks. The reason it is going to get so much worse is because of this brain drain that our federal government is currently undergoing. Even if all these jobs are refilled the experience that was there is all gone. Will take years to repair the damage done in weeks.





The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

“I’m glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person,” her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. “So we can add a little human touch to what’s going on.”

Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years’ probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

Critics warned of swift consequences as the administration raced to execute a vision Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have touted for a leaner, reshaped government. The latest wave of personnel actions already prompted an administrative complaint on behalf of workers at nine agencies, adding to more than a dozen legal tests of Trump’s power filed one month into his term.

The Trump administration will not disclose how many workers it cut since last week ahead of its Tuesday deadline, but the government employed more than 200,000 probationary workers as of last year. The firings have extended to touch employees at almost every agency, including map makers, archaeologists and cancer researchers, The Post found, in choices that some workers said contradicted a U.S. Office of Personnel Management directive to retain “mission-critical” workers.

This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications reviewed by The Post.

The Federal Aviation Administration let go hundreds of technicians and engineers just weeks after a midair collision a few miles from the White House killed 67 people, eliciting promises from Trump officials to improve air safety, workers said in interviews. FEMA, which handles the nation’s natural disasters, is preparing to fire hundreds of probationary employees, according to four people familiar with the situation who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The agency is already stretched thin responding to fires in California and floods in Kentucky. And the administration terminated scores of employees who work to bolster the nation’s nuclear defense, only to realize its error and start reversing the firings.

WaPo

Bill Clinton fired 377,000 when he took office, and nobody said one word about it.

 

[Doc7505]

This is the very definition of a man made disaster. Giving someone of this temperment the keys to the front door is only just beginning to show what a looming trainwreck is rolling down the tracks. It has been remarkably bad in only just a matter of weeks. The reason it is going to get so much worse is because of this brain drain that our federal government is currently undergoing. Even if all these jobs are refilled the experience that was there is all gone. Will take years to repair the damage done in weeks.





The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

“I’m glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person,” her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. “So we can add a little human touch to what’s going on.”

Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years’ probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

Critics warned of swift consequences as the administration raced to execute a vision Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have touted for a leaner, reshaped government. The latest wave of personnel actions already prompted an administrative complaint on behalf of workers at nine agencies, adding to more than a dozen legal tests of Trump’s power filed one month into his term.

The Trump administration will not disclose how many workers it cut since last week ahead of its Tuesday deadline, but the government employed more than 200,000 probationary workers as of last year. The firings have extended to touch employees at almost every agency, including map makers, archaeologists and cancer researchers, The Post found, in choices that some workers said contradicted a U.S. Office of Personnel Management directive to retain “mission-critical” workers.

This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications reviewed by The Post.

The Federal Aviation Administration let go hundreds of technicians and engineers just weeks after a midair collision a few miles from the White House killed 67 people, eliciting promises from Trump officials to improve air safety, workers said in interviews. FEMA, which handles the nation’s natural disasters, is preparing to fire hundreds of probationary employees, according to four people familiar with the situation who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The agency is already stretched thin responding to fires in California and floods in Kentucky. And the administration terminated scores of employees who work to bolster the nation’s nuclear defense, only to realize its error and start reversing the firings.

WaPo

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Here's why Trump can fire anyone he wants.... If anyone on the left is angry about Trump firing people, be sure to let Joe Biden know how unhappy you are. He’s your man.
Thank goodness for the foresight of Steven Miller and the dedication of Sean Spicer to throw a court case that would become a precedent to assist President Trump to fire these verminous slime! They knew what was coming and set up the Biden Admin, who boastfully fell into their trap!

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[MagicMike]

Shrink that federal work force!

Oops!

The man told WTOP his performance reviews were "all in the range of fours," meaning he was "exceeding expectations." Additionally, he was described by a supervisor as a "leader" who "demonstrated professionalism" in his core skills.

The man's family has contacted their Congressional lawmakers and their union.

"I voted for Donald Trump. But this is not what I was expecting,” he told the outlet. “We didn’t think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug.”

'Chainsaw to a silk rug': Blindsided Trump voter furious after firing

A disabled military veteran and information technology technician with the Federal Emergency Management Agency said he was blindsided this week when the Trump administration — whom he voted for — informed him of his termination.The man, who is from northern Virginia, was fired Monday as part of...

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