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COL Mustard

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18. I assume that at least some of these employees are career (yes, I know what happens when I assume)

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2025, 06:27 PM

Jan 2025

But they can't just be let go, right? Don't they have rights to another position? This could trickle down through the ranks and end up letting some poor slob go who had nothing to do with any of this. Am I right, or way off base here?

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Trump admin tells agencies to start firing DEI staffers [View all] BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 OP

It is not a change in policy, it is a hostile purge and attack. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #1

The incentivizing of snitching Mike 03 Jan 2025 #2

This is still in place, but the site was edited on Wednesday: mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 #3

Ohhh, boy... what's next : / : ( electric_blue68 Jan 2025 #25

So he's purging minorities from the Federal workforce lanlady Jan 2025 #4

This 100% bronxiteforever Jan 2025 #8

It's all about loyalty and leverage. Control. Civil service will need purging post Trump. If bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #5

I really don't want to have to work for another 4 years. COL Mustard Jan 2025 #19

Fetterman, Snoop dog, et al..... Lovie777 Jan 2025 #6

Also this act is unconstitutional.................. Lovie777 Jan 2025 #7

so? the constitution constrained prior occupants of the oval, not this one rainin Jan 2025 #13

Can you elaborate? I mean it is not illegal to fire federal employees. It happens all the time. Why specifically do kelly1mm Jan 2025 #28

Tiny little hands, lighting another fuse. Prairie_Seagull Jan 2025 #9

Move over DEI - here comes NEPOTISM purr-rat beauty Jan 2025 #10

How long before HarryM Jan 2025 #11

I am getting some whiffs of that now. OldBaldy1701E Jan 2025 #17

: ( damn! electric_blue68 Jan 2025 #27

Applications are being accepted at the Dept of Hate, Lies and Oppression. twodogsbarking Jan 2025 #12

He is truly going mad with power. WTF. Initech Jan 2025 #14

Where are the lawsuits? Are there any lawsuits about this??? OhioBack2Blue Jan 2025 #15

Remember that this just happened BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 #16

Yeah. Time card fraud and travel fraud are the biggest ones for us. COL Mustard Jan 2025 #26

We have had BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 #30

True. I've been amazed COL Mustard Jan 2025 #31

The only time I would use mine BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 #32

The ADA and 504 are laws - but most DEI departments were not created by Congress FBaggins Jan 2025 #20

My thoughts Dan Jan 2025 #29

This meshes with purging the IGs. Hugin Jan 2025 #33

I assume that at least some of these employees are career (yes, I know what happens when I assume) COL Mustard Jan 2025 #18

He's reclassifying many of them as "Schedule F" FBaggins Jan 2025 #21

Back when OPM started going through their reclassification process BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 #22

Every time the zealots get a little closer... Hugin Jan 2025 #34

I had started in the gov't back under Raygun BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 #35

My closest co-worker at the time was a refugee from AMC. Hugin Jan 2025 #36

My lab ended up with at least one refugee from what was then DPSC (the Defense Personnel Support Center combo thing) BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 #37

See what I wrote above BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 #23

this is basically gutting all HR depts. Javaman Jan 2025 #24

just imagine if he had acted this quickly on Covid prodigitalson Jan 2025 #38