I’m going to editorialize a bit here. The DoD was ready to fire every probationary employee today. An AF Lieutenant General came to tears yesterday breaking the news to staff. And this is not just first year employees as the media keeps pointing out- this changed this to two years in 2015 for the DoD. For many excepted employees, it actually takes three years to leave the probationary period. Doing rough math (3 years out of a 30 year career- that’s 10% of that particular population). It took “woke” CNN to point out the law that you can’t just fire ~6% of the workforce without first determining what will break.
Too bad this wasn’t law for the IRS and other agencies.
I have an idea: maybe assess actions before taking the actions?
Strategy isn’t their strong point.
It’s the pentagon! Shouldn’t they be the best?
No, not them.
They hoard wealth like my 5yo hoards candy. Stands to reason they would also act impulsively without thinking first like that same 5yo.
“move fast and break things”, where “things” is entire countries and people’s lives
The POINT is to break the government. It’s a lot easier to convince people to privatize things that way.
That motto doesn’t really work in software engineering either lol they love to say that shit though.
It’s not software engineers that say that. All these shitty business bros like to pretend they’re techies when their only role in technology is lying about it to scam funding.
We didn’t do that last November, why would we start now? (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
“Check yourself before ya wreck yourself”
Trump wants a loyal DoD, and military in general, so when he refuses to leave or tries to declare martial law, or whatever mechanism, to stay president they won’t do anything. Other than money, for the rich only of course, that is what all this is really about.
The only government agency that gets to consider the impact before the cuts is the department of war…If only there were an easy way to understand what our priorities are.
I believe that this is just temporary. If I remember correctly from skimming the Reddit FedNews subreddit where a lot of people are talking about this, there’s some legal requirement about layoffs where the Secretary of Defense has to perform some review first to see if the layoffs are problematic, which apparently was not done. The SecDef is Pete Hegseth, who is quite happy to do the layoffs, so…
kagis
Okay, here’s a reference to it:
Pentagon lawyers reportedly started reviewing the legality of the planned firings after CNN reported it could conflict with Title 10 section 129a of the US Code.
According to the law, the secretary of defense “may not reduce the civilian workforce programmed full-time equivalent levels unless the Secretary conducts an appropriate analysis” to ensure the impact on mission effectiveness is considered.
An analysis had not been carried out before military leaders were ordered to list the employees who would be fired, according to a senior defense official.
So I imagine that he’s just gonna do whatever the legal minimum requirement is here and then they’re going to proceed.
That’s what a competent person would do to achieve their goal… Solid chance they just try to force it through anyways
Cut the military budget in half and fire people like crazy. This I can get behind.
