Big Balls' Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee

[demmiblue]

Although Elon Musk has said that he is largely exiting his role at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), at least three of his early operatives and key lieutenants throughout his government takeover have recently become full-time government employees.

Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, and Ethan Shaotran’s employment designations at the General Services Administration (GSA) have been officially converted to full-time from the restricted special government employee classification that limited their time in government to a period of 130 days, according to documentation viewed by WIRED.

Coristine, who has gone by “Big Balls” online and previously worked for a telecommunications firm known for hiring former blackhat hackers, was converted to full time on May 31, along with Farritor. Shaotran became full time on April 10.

WIRED first reported in early February that Coristine, Farritor, and Shaotran were brought on by Musk’s DOGE. They then gained unprecedented access to government systems. Before joining DOGE, they had connections to Musk-owned companies: Farritor interned at SpaceX, Coristine worked at Neuralink for three months, and Shaotran participated in an xAI hackathon last October.

https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/

GS-15 (the highest paid category in the standard government pay scale) is some seriously bullshit for these dumbasses. Long-term employees have to be pissed.

— Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T19:38:43.946Z

[underpants]

1. They STARTED as GS-15's?

Jesus.

[haele]

7. Because he's providing some "special service" to the Government?

Got news for him. He's not "that" especially talented or qualified. He just knew somebody who knew somebody.
There's plenty of award winning AI specialists and coders or hackers that start at GS 12 because there's plenty of AI specialists, coders, and hackers around, and they all know somebody...
Just not Elon.
Put his actual resume or product up against any number of GS 12 or 13's in, say, the DoD or DoE, with his actual experience and background work and let's see where this script-kiddie actually ranks.

[Attilatheblond]

13. Not that special, but possibly found a lot of dirt on people that makes it easy for him to get a special deal

Just spit ballin here. Hacker got to run amok thru all sorts of sensitive data and he gets a good pay off job? Blackmail is a nasty word, but seems to be the way things go these days.

[CousinIT]

8. With 2-5 years total experience and ZERO in government.

Republicans love to gripe about "merit" hiring...this is MERITLESS hiring. It is the goddamned epitome of why we need DEI.

Furthermore, NO person of color or woman would E V E R get such a position or salary with so little experience.

White, male, tech-bro supremacy reigns.

[dweller]

2. Obviously

e skum’s (N-ZA) work is not done yet , and he’s left his little turds behind to continue exploiting all our data .


✌🏻

[BannonsLiver]

3. He's going to jail when (not if) order is restored.

So I hope he makes the most of his time now. Rough times ahead.

[Javaman]

4. how exactly is this saving money? oh that's right, none of this bullshit was ever about that.

this is empty husks inside man.

[gab13by13]

5. He must be in charge of

Selling user names and passwords of our government agencies.

[IcyPeas]

6. Drug test them now.

[dickthegrouch]

9. They managed to pass the background, credentials, and competency tests?

Oh wait, we're saving money by not administering those.

[Blue Owl]

10. Fuck this shit

Who is paying their salary?

WE ARE.

We must demand accountability for our tax dollars.

[yellow dahlia]

11. I'm out of sophisticated words to respond to all that is going on.

It's just on e swear word linked to another.



They skipped through the pay scales!?

[Hotler]

12. When we take power again and, we will. Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, and Ethan Shaotran will go to prison

for the identity theft of millions of citizens.