Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE

[lostincalifornia]

Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio

"MIAMI -- Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk's cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.

“Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”

Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months. He said the sudden reversal of the downsizing reflects how Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had gone too far, too fast."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-administration-rehires-hundreds-federal-employees-laid-off-125871938

Absolute incompetence, and I wonder how much this news will be proliferated by the news outlets, or just buried as a sideline.

[marble falls]

1. Imagine that.

[Biophilic]

2. Yup, just like the rest of this administration, absolute incompetence.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Gods, there is a part of me that wants them all to tell the orange gibbon to Frak right off!

Because they will not ever learn if they don't suffer the FO part of FAFO.

Period.

[yardwork]

4. So much winning.

[MadameButterfly]

5. Since Trump doesn't really work, he thinks no one else does either

So he thinks workers are expendable. Surprise when things go wrong when they are gone.

[surfered]

6. Chaos and waste because of incompetence. DOGE just slashed and burned with no forethought

[slightlv]

9. Oh, they had forethought...

IMO, they're ONLY thoughts were on how to get absolutely as much of our personal data as possible in the shortest amount of time before being told to FO.

[MadameButterfly]

7. Can someone please keep track of all the waste from DOGE

and other ridiculous expenses like military parades and sending deportees via military carriers (and deporting people at all)
So we can compare it to all the cost cutting Elon was bragging about.

[Walleye]

8. Sounds like a lot of waste, fraud or abuse to me

[progressoid]

10. Seven-month paid vacation

Ostensibly, this is the kind of waste, fraud and abuse that DOGE was supposed to fix.

[TomSlick]

11. Quelle surprise!

The government really does need people to do the work. Who'd a thought?

To the extent necessary

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Clearly, That Group Of Know-Nothings...

...cut whatever they didn't understand or didn't like.
I was a cost & efficiency expert for the company (with my staff of 7) for 19 years.
They had us in those positions because we understood how things worked!
That's the opposite of the Musk mob. They understood nothing.