https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1iozypr/megathread_mass_firing_of_probationary_employees/
Basically Trump offered all of these leeches a severance package to go find a real job.
Here all of the limp wristed scream at anyone that is going to take the offer instead of get fired
https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1io4v73/judge_declines_to_block_trump_administrations/
Notice how smart they are compared to the forkers (people taking buyout)
Well yesterday they all got fired. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Here's one
https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1io4v73/comment/mcgpheo/?context=8
Wanna make a bet with a redditor?
If any of you take this buyout ill block your future jobs!
I can't wait for the /r/politics thread on trumps abysmal jobs report coming up. Its like a masquerade, but you cover your eyes and brain, too.
.webp?h=10 "Nuzzles, pounces on you, UwU, you're so warm!..")
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I don't think probationary employees are entitled to severance
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So these kids all went and got empowered by the anti fork posts on Reddit and now are empty handed? Guess what folx, inflation is going to come screaming down.
Also strangely enough I now know who is going to pick the fruit and clean the pottys!
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What in chudtardation?!
!nonchuds, help me figure this one out.
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If more Americans are unemployed and broke, it will be good for the 'comomy
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Maybe he's skipping a step, and baking into his thesis their suicides as well.
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Well, when 200k leeches making north of 40/hr get fired, they no longer put that money into goy slop and million dollar 2000 sq ft houses next to bustleville
When the goy slop consumption goes down, goy slop prices go down.
Thanks for attending my ted tawlk
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When money leaves the economy inflation goes down you fricking idiot is this fifth grade?
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Hypothetically it could just go towards servicing debt and so not drive consumer spending
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If I stay very still, maybe he'll leave me alone.
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I'm ambivalent about the cuts themselves; what gets me angry is that all of this money is getting plowed right into $2 trillion boomer gibs
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They're going to spend all the money saved on Medicaid and SS?
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If the assumption that fed workers are all useless moms who sit and play farmville 7 out of 8h of their workday are true, then we're currently paying for people to produce nothing, meaning inflation.
Though, it won't be reduced much if they can just monkey branch to welfare bucks
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If government fires them, what will it do with that money that is freed up?
(Spend it on other bullshit). So.... no, sweaty. You're wrong.
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Yeah ideally the cut money would mean lower taxes or fees for the people but lol
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So the principle is sound but we are so jaded that we assume more corruption will happen.
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I'd assume that's an inevitability. Looks who's in power lmfao
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Most of the time all they do is give people benefits.
There's no shortage of people willing to do that for a lower wage.
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Yeah that should also be cut
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Well you can't just call them useless unless you've got a better idea of what to do with them
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cuz those new poorcels aren't buying stuff so inflation can't happen anymore
it's advanced economics sweety
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they can typically fire you for any reason during probationary period...i think its the first year or first 6 months...you dont even get vacation or sick time (it accumulates and you get it after probation)...
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You get annual leave and sick leave and you can use it whenever during probation. You even get AL paid out if you leave during probation
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things used to be different i see...
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On here, reddit and twitter this feels like really inorganic posting.
Here people are somehow conflating the firing of probationary employees with the total annihilation of career federal employees. Probation exists to allow those employees to be easily fired for under-performance, this has nothing at all to do with the idea that Musk can just go in and fire the average employee at-will.
fednews looks like it is trying to make the average low-level employee look like some entitled harry potter-loving redditor, so that everyone can feel good about them losing their jobs
Twitter is even worse, where you get these really strangely written posts about "This is what we voted for!". Why would someone post that exact phrase? And why so many people?
It's legit strange seeing what looks like such heavy astroturfing from the right, using cowtools that are usually the domain of the left (or in the case of rdrama, Israel)
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Oh yeah it's real 1984 shit.
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Its about sending a message
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I can't go more than 30 days without buying a new cybertruck
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Remember
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Surely redditors will be able to stop cons00ming for a month
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Imagine not taking an 8 month buyout because you think Nancy chuck and Pocahontas are going to save you
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Imagine getting paid 8 month's worth of money to go find a better job. These people are ridiculously spoiled and they're acting like they're being hunted in the streets.
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The entry level tree planting job on BIPOC private land was 37/hr
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I don't think the buyout was legal, I'd be worried about having to pay it back
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it's just a severance contract the individual agencies are managing? The email sent out was just asking people if they want to be put on the list which is followed up with a normal contract by the HR in the agency itself (not DOGE). There's been many times where gov commit to paying things that aren't yet fully funded by congress.
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It's not just a question of funding, it's also if federal agencies are allowed to place employees on such a lengthy paid administrative leave.
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on what basis? the only real critique I've heard is the congressional funding because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act (which has never been enforced) otherwise its just a normal severance contract
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my understanding it is not a normal severance contract where you get a lump sum buyout but rather you get put on administrative leave until the end of the fiscal year. You don't have work, are exempt from RTO, still get pay and benefits. There is a question mark if this is allowed under the Administrative Leave Act of 2016. I will say even if it's found to be legal, being put on leave rather than get a buyout allows some ways for you to get screwed, like the possibility of getting fired or having your position eliminated.
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Lol
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What's so funny, giggles?
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Oy juz havun a laff mate ad nuffin to do wich wut that dumb thing you sed
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I think the concern is more daddy can rug pull that. Federal government complies with labor law because it chooses to do so but doesn't actually have to do so.
If daddy decides in a few weeks that all those people who quit are really traitors and stops paying them the legal challenges wouldn't do anything. Courts could also easily decide that the payments are unconstitutional as there isn't an appropriation backing them.
They deserve nothing anyway but it would be pretty r-slurred to believe you will absolutely get the 8 months severance.
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That's never going to happen. The government isn't some shady small business that can skip town. It always pays it's employees and a severence package will be a contract. The only risk is delayed payments, but they are 100% getting paid
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that's exactly what the government is. central figure that can do a lot. The issue lies in the fact they can be voted out
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only Greece and Argentina type govs in a total crisis would reduce pre-agreed payments to employees
otherwise the US always paid, even when a budget shutdown caused multi-month delays when the money wasn't there they still got paid in the end
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Better than a hand full of shit
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Leftoids finally pretending to care about the fricking constitution will never not be funny.
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They are getting 8 MONTHS???
I was with a company for 15+ years and only got 5 months. That was enough but still. Frick these stupid spoiled children holy shit.
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Milei already showed like a year ago that you can take an axe to government jobs, and modern people and bureaucracies are so cucked that they won't even assassinate you. And that's in Latin America, where government jobs are probably more sacred than they are in the US. As soon as I saw that Milei was still alive a few months after he started his cuts, I began to dimly realize on some level that maybe we are no longer in an epoch where one can expect any real resistance from the so-called "deep state" in roughly liberal, Western nations. The "deep state" is great at overthrowing some despot in bumfrick Africa and replacing him with a new despot, but clearly they are not some great Illuminati Kennedy-killing force. If they were, Trump would be dead by now. Trump isn't fighting against some hardened organized conspiracy, he's fighting against a bunch of 50 year old bureaucrats and wine moms who have no idea what the frick they're doing. Luckily, probably Trump also has no idea what he frick he's doing.
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How is it possible western countries have more bureaucrats then they did back when everything was done on paper?
Countries that publish that data show. Numbers went down all 90s. Then in 2000s started to trend upward. Finally eclipsing paper peak in sometimes in 2010s.
Civilised world needs to think what paper work is neccecery and just take axe for rest.
I think in croatia. There was news story recentyl where they were planing restore some natural habitat as it was. It requireed small dam to be build.
Planing for this small dam went for 7 years. One project got green light. They found out that beavers had build dam where they had planed to buiild their dam.
7 years and some beavers just went and did it.
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chuds don't understand per capita !nonchuds
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Heh. This proves we have less bureaucrats.
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This is share of employment, not share of GDP
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Replace "economy grows faster" with "private market employment rate grows faster."
They should also be including private contractors in government spending on labor.
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Okay, here's federal employees divided by population
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1DHEx
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Interesting, interesting. Doesn't include the other laborers they pay for, does it? Nope!
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States and regulations keep expanding. If you want to solve any of this you have to actually find what regulations and government actions are actually slowing things down, remove them and then make redunancies based on roles no longer required. Just axing the civil service means corporations will now have to wait 4 years to get a permit or government services stop working.
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Its really hard to do. Becouse paper pushers keep inventing new stuff just so they have something to do. Nobody wants to saw off branch they are sitting at. You need to outsider who is willing to cut stuff off and figure out what is necessary and what is not.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/beavers-save-czech-taxpayers-by-flooding-ex-army-training-site
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They literally had a bullet pass by his ear. They have more tricks up their child sacrificing sleeves I'm sure
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I'm 99% sure that guy was just a lone wolf. If there was some effective deep state conspiracy trying to kill Trump, I don't think they would have missed.
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Who enabled this lone wolf's incredible run of luck🤔
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The Secret Service has a good track record, but when they have to spend much of 10 years protecting a guy who does way more outdoors rallies than the average politician, and is also one of the most widely hated politicians in US history, who gets called a Nazi constantly by his enemies' press, eventually you're going to slip up.
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Some dumb foid.
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Well that would make you r-slurred
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That sub was all "Don't accept the deal, WE WILL FIGHT"
Now they're fired and no severance. Stop listening to redditors
For all we know, 1/3 of the federal workforce will get terminated next month with nothing. If that's the case, the fork people will look pretty smart.
That reply was down voted two days ago
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It's only Feb but this /r/fednews seethe might be my favourite drama thing this year
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Even military?
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I don't see anything related to the military but I'm sure their time will come. Also this mostly people on probation for now
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It will be really intresting when trump starts to frick with military and MIC. Will they just eat it. Push back. Fight back or join hands with CIA and JFK him
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Hey /u/FancyFed (totally not some 13 year old kid larper lol) how many idiot Redditors lives do you think your comment ruined? You just helped the orange Hitler save massive amounts of money
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Hey /u/theLULRUS how did that work out for you DUMBASS
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These people are just making it painfully obvious for everyone (except themselves of course) why they should have been fired long ago.
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Are they self aware enough to leave this stint off of their resume🤔
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You missed the panicked "Do I have another chance at the buyout...????"-posts yesterday. They were hilarious.
From "HOLD THE LINE!! FIGHT AGAINST TRUMP!" to "Please please I need that money".
BIPOC you KNEW you were getting fired anyay! ELON OFFERED YOU 50k AS A CUSHION AND YOU REFUSED BECAUSE OF A REDDIT POST???
https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1io7384/apparently_opm_closed_the_deferred_resignation/
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Government employees whining that a process a government created was confusing and byzantine?
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how sad, couldn't happen to better people.
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Ummm conservation sounds a little too close to "conservative" for my liking (kinda like AshkeNAZI) so I think those jobs are just fine being axed.
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Who's gunna plant trees on private property of brown and black people to prevent soil erosion tho (yes, someone said this was their job)
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Hey /u/askMediocre8437 which bet did you take lmaooooo
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What's a probationary employee? Is that just someone who has 2 strikes already and is 1 frick up away from getting canned
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You will find out when you get a job
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Literally zero of my white collar jobs have had probationary periods lmao
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Mine was 2 months or 6 months I can't remember
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You either worked for some very small companies or didn't even realize that you had a 3 month probation period because nobody competent gets fired during it.
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Under 18 alert
@Aevann
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Naw I'm in my 20s. Apparently just r-slurred
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Normal salary job thing
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(In Canada)
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I work for American companies but the rules are the same in both, about 90 days where you dont have to give advanced notice for firing
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In most states here you don't have to give advanced notice for firing ever.
Unless you both live and work in the US, they probably have to follow canada labor laws. The US has no mandatory notice for firing employees. Some states do I think, mine definitely doesn't.
Cuts both ways ofc. I can literally just stop showing up to work next week with no notice or warning whatsoever and there is zero legal action they can take against me. They also are still legally obligated to pay me right up until I stop showing up to work.
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I've done both but usually it would be a contract remote from canada so there's no labour laws lol. But yeah for real employment contractors it's mostly an informal thing that's standard practice and mostly a way to hold off doing all the paperwork for benefits/perks/credit cards for first while. My company uses it pretty aggressively instead of doing long interviews, you fit in or you're gone within ~2 months.
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Nope, a lot of government and private jobs have a grace period they can fire you for anything. After that apparently you're a tenured professor or some shit. All of these people are still in that window and the government just did MASSIVE hiring spree to make the jobs report not look as bad lmao
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I must be blessed. Every job I've had had benefits from day 1 besides my part time teen jobs
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It's not about benefits at private organizations (usually) it's about being new enough that you have no protection against firing. For the feds, you're supposed to follow a procedure to fire someone, and the fired employee has a department they can go to if they think you did so unfairly, and then some kind of arbitration is supposed to occur. If you're brand new, you don't get to do that, they can just straight up fire you. Trump went after those people first because they have less recourse.
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Oh I've never been employed by the government. I'm not a cute twink
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An employee that supports masturbation.
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It's usually every employee hired by an agency or company within their first 3-6 months. No vacation, no sick time, and basically no union protections from getting fired during that period.
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In government jobs, you are a probationary employee when first hired and also when first promoted to a new role. So in some cases the people being fired are actually the high performers who advanced their career in the last year but haven't "proven their fitness" in their new job title yet.
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Snapshots:
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https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1io4v73/judge_declines_to_block_trump_administrations/:
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CUTE
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Tf is a forker?
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Two days after it closed.
Edit: Wait, from the reddit comments:
Even more brutal
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I don't believe them saying it's happening, but it's good if it is
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Calling being a federal
employee "the service" is such a fricking 
cope
Soliders who have to go and constantly train
in the field 
and get deployed constantly get a pass because if we compensated soldiers 
as professionals for all that travel 
time and the hardship of seperation we'd pay through the nose. What fricking 
hardship is there 
being a paper 
pusher where 
you do frick all?
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