WASHINGTON β National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated β but they struggled to find them because they didn't have their new contact information.
In an email sent to employees at NNSA and obtained by NBC News, officials wrote, "The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel."
The individuals the letter refers to had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts. NNSA, which is within the Department of Energy and oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, cannot reach these employees directly and is now asking recipients of the email, "Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people's personal contact emails."
Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can't figure out how to reach them 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-wants-un-fire-nuclear-safety-workers-cant-figure-rcna192345
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if we give more money to this
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then they will start doing a better job.
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Yeah the real way to improve things is to slash budgets and fire critical staff, that always works
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He's saying that the firings happened because they did a bad job, which is factually wrong. The firings happened because they were new hires under probation. Nothing bad was discovered.
The administration realized that their cookie cutter method didn't account for the nuclear scientists who make nuclear weapons and had to backpedal.
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Why are so many essential employees there under probation?
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It's a rule for new hires. There's a natural attrition rate for a workforce, either through retirement or finding a different job. When people hire on it's a mandatory 1-2 year probation period.
Depending on workload projections some years have higher hiring rates than others, while a lot have net negative by allowing people to quit without backfilling.
The US is actively modernizing all of its existing nukes as they age beyond what industry can maintain them with old tech, for instance.
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/us-modernization-2024-update
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Interesting. It just seems odd that, if they're just slashing all the probationary employees first as seems to be the case, that there would be this large number of essential workers who hadn't been there for more than three years, to take the outside estimate for the length of probation.
I'm inclined to think it's something like that there were a few that were considered a mistake to let go; there was another report recently that another department haggled up the number of employees they could keep, so there's clearly not much thought put in to this. But I suspect the scope of employees in the specific circumstances of the OP is much smaller than they're suggesting.
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Between the people taking the voluntary regination and the new hires, the ballpark guess was 20% of the nuclear workforce. Well, at least that particular group. They just do the warheads.
Gotta remember the DOD (AF, Navy) design the actual missiles and bombs and planes/ships to carry them. They were subject to the same firings but I haven't started reading the details yet since it's so dispersed. You have to look at the JCOS, program offices, and STRATCOM.
What people don't want to admit is that if they fired every single fed, their salaries add up to around $300B but the budget is $6T. Defense contracts bill $500-600/hr for educated labor, about 3-4 times as much as what feds cost, and there's at least a 10:1 ratio of private contractors to feds. That's where all the money goes.
If they wanted to be smart and persuasive, they should have just said "we don't think the government should be involved in X Y and Z functions, so we will cease doing those." That way they can eliminate the overall cost instead of just the lowest cost and smallest proportion of the labor.
Example you can fire all the feds involved with the B21 bomber and not put a dent in the cost. Or you can just cancel the bomber.
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Well, yes. There's loads of better ways to do this but I think he's using the same thing he did with Twitter, clearing out the majority and then hiring back the ones who it turned out he actually needed. Has a different effect when you do it to a government than a website.
Though it creates a lot of drama and seems to get rid of a shitload of dangerhairs and makework roles, so I can see the appeal.
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It's a dangerous move to fire the people you used to pay to guard your darkest secrets like that
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You sat down and wrote all this shit. You could have done so many other things with your life. What happened to your life that made you decide writing novels of bullshit here was the best option?
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we should pentuple their budget
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You jest, but there is actually a case to be made for pentupling the budget on strategic weapons and cutting the budget on conventional forces.
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If I was North Korea I'd get as many fricking nukes as fast as possible too. I wouldn't win a nuclear exchange, but nobody wants to have a single city hit by even one at all.
The entire backbone of the US and NATO defense strategy is literally nuclear superiority.
Japan is pooping rocks that China will obtain nuclear parity with the US and start acting in non-nuclear regional aggression.
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Seems like a foregone conclusion. The NPT has been ailing for decades and Donald doesn't even know what it is. Proliferation seems inevitable, which of course means an exchange is increasingly likely.
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Twitter is bankrupt.
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It's literally the Manhattan Project. They manage Los Alamos, Livermore, the Pantex plant where nukes are assembled, and the labs where components are built. They design, build, maintain, and transport nukes. They do subcritical nuclear testing too.
The entire US and NATO defense strategy is based around the nuclear arsenal. The only reason they aren't a part of the DOD is because they need to keep nuclear weapon design information separate from the military.
!fedposters !glowies !ifrickinglovescience this man might actually be r-slurred
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Look dude. Know your audience. You want to notify us when you come across a dramatard that isn't r-slurred. That's the unexpected.
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It could be a larp as well. Double post-reverse-irony.
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Too deep.
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the manhattan project that means they can never suffer a budget cut nor layoffs.
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Fricking nuclear science is a jewish lie anyway
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Quark-Gluon interactions is Kaballah
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