Trump Has Harsh Response to Federal Workers Losing Jobs

[Superbadbrutha]

That happens just about everyplace outside of Government.

Really? Show me the thread on here where folks are celebrating folks losing their job at McDonalds.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

There is Accountability in jobs. Sometimes, people are performing exceptionally and they lose their job because someone or some department made the choice to over expand. Is it Fair? Absolutely not. But, what’s your solution?

How do you fire folks for job performance that you have never met or been to the place where they work.

 

[fncceo]

I didn't say it was; I said that is what folks want.

Then you just have to do two things.

1. Make sure your company has (and continues to have as the market changes) a viable business plan.

2. Continually convince your company that you provide more value to the company than they might achieve by removing or replacing you.

Just do those two little things and you can work until retirement.

 

[struth]

A reporter asked the president what responsibility he felt for the civil servants who had lost their jobs during Wednesday’s Oval Office meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin.

“I feel very badly, but many of them don’t work at all,” Trump replied just one day after cutting nearly half of the Education Department’s staff,

”Many of them never showed up to work. Many of them, many of them never showed up to work," he repeated.

The president insisted that the job cuts are targeted at “the people that aren’t working or are not doing a good job,” a message echoed by the department’s Secretary, Linda McMahon.

“What we did today was to take the first step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat,” she said after announcing the staff cuts.

Trump and his billionaire buddy Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fired tens of thousands of federal employees in their crusade to reduce the size of the government and weed out “waste.”

The world’s richest man has repeatedly suggested that federal workers are not working hard enough, even though The Washington Post found that federal workers usually work an average of 43 hours a week, the most of any class of worker.

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How do you know someone is not doing their job when you don't even know what their job is?

Still waiting on the “harsh reply” —-

 

[fncceo]

How do you fire folks for job performance that you have never met or been to the place where they work.

There’s this thing called a corporate structure and in that structure you have tiers of managers.

Each manager reports on the productivity of his employees to the next tier manager.

Hiring and firing decisions from the top tier is based on those reports.

It is not necessary for the chief executive to personally meet with every employees.

But, if the top executive wanted to be REALLY fair, he could send each employee an email and see how (or if) they respond.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Really? Show me the thread on here where folks are celebrating folks losing their job at McDonalds.

Who is celebrating? I feel bad for the Federal workforce members that bust their ass but got caught up in bloat expansion.

 

[LeftofLeft]

How do you fire folks for job performance that you have never met or been to the place where they work.

Seriously? This happens everyday America; in particular, large organizations. I’ve been part of layoffs because of the performance of a division and/or over expansion. It sucks.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

There’s this thing called a corporate structure and in that structure you have tiers of managers.

Each manager reports on the productivity of his employees to the next tier manager.

Hiring and firing decisions from the top tier is based on those reports.

It is not necessary for the chief executive to personally meet with every employees.

But, if the top executive wanted to be REALLY fair, he could send each employee an email and see how (or if) they respond.

In the corporate world it is usually those on the mid and top tier that are being let go.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Who is celebrating? I feel bad for the Federal workforce members that bust their ass but got caught up in bloat expansion.

How do you know it was a bloat expansion; how do you know the expansion wasn't necessary?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Seriously? This happens everyday America; in particular, large organizations. I’ve been part of layoffs because of the performance of a division and/or over expansion. It sucks.

I know everybody has a story to tell.

 

[80zephyr]

I didn't say it was; I said that is what folks want.

The average person will change careers 5-7 times during their working life.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

The average person will change careers 5-7 times during their working life.

Blah, blah, blah, any excuse will do.

 

[80zephyr]

Blah, blah, blah, any excuse will do.

Facts are not excuses.

 

[BothWings]

I didn't say it was; I said that is what folks want.

Yup. It's a plain fact that many people want to get paid big bucks for doing as little as possible. The public sector has been a "go-to" for people like that for a long time and hardly jack shit has been done about it in all those years. The snowball effect of more and more of THOSE people getting THOSE jobs is a major reason our government has become so inefficient and the average citizen doesn't get what they should out of it. It's really getting to the point of critical mass. The government is on the verge of imploding and it's high time SOMEBODY did SOMETHING. You know those lifers in the Senate and the SCOTUS loved it just the way it was before Trump started pulling the plug, and would likely fight him all the way. Hopefully term limits for them will be in the works soon too!

 

[LeftofLeft]

How do you know it was a bloat expansion; how do you know the expansion wasn't necessary?

Because we are weeks removed from an administration that was dumbing $2B into the lap of Stacey Abrams in the name of green energy.

 

[LeftofLeft]

I know everybody has a story to tell.

Story usually maps to an income statement.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Yup. It's a plain fact that many people want to get paid big bucks for doing as little as possible. The public sector has been a "go-to" for people like that for a long time and hardly jack shit has been done about it in all those years. The snowball effect of more and more of THOSE people getting THOSE jobs is a major reason our government has become so inefficient and the average citizen doesn't get what they should out of it. It's really getting to the point of critical mass. The government is on the verge of imploding and it's high time SOMEBODY did SOMETHING. You know those lifers in the Senate and the SCOTUS loved it just the way it was before Trump started pulling the plug, and would likely fight him all the way. Hopefully term limits for them will be in the works soon too!

Is that what you want, to get paid for doing nothing. Really give me some examples of how it isn't efficient. Many of those lifers are republicans, are you telling us that Trump is going to be the president to push for term limits on Congress and take away those lifetime appointments in the SC.

 

[TimFitz]

Feet up at home with an open beer and a video game controller doesn't add up to work hours.
Sorry...

No, but you just made that up, anyway.

 

[justoffal]

No, but you just made that up, anyway.

Apparently not.....
The other issue is how many of them were double clocking over the past 4 years.
The IRS will have all the information of course.
This should be interesting.

 

[BothWings]

Is that what you want, to get paid for doing nothing. Really give me some examples of how it isn't efficient. Many of those lifers are republicans, are you telling us that Trump is going to be the president to push for term limits on Congress and take away those lifetime appointments in the SC.

Where did I say I want to get paid for doing nothing??? Are you dyslexic?

"How it isn't efficient"? Because nothing gets done and someone...US actually...still has to pay for it. It's like leaving the furnace on full blast indefinitely with no one home. It's as simple as 1+1=2 . If you need that explained to you, I suppose we're basically done.

Trump already did suggest term limits during his first term. As I said, I'm sure they will (and already have) fought him tooth and nail over it, and it may never happen as he is outnumbered by the very people who would be subject to those limits, yet who he would also depend on to support it into law. Total conflict of interest, and that's no fault of Trump's.

And YES, I do know his SCOTUS picks might be affected. However, Trump has actually set to work on many things he has proposed in the past and I believe it's not impossible he might try to bring it up in some form again. If he does, more power to him. Id like to see at least the Senate be subjected to it.