You see, these federal workers -- almost all of them. . . have what amounts to property rights in their jobs. They may only be let go for very clear, written and well-documented "cause". [And any employee's First Amendment activities cannot be that "cause".] In short, Elon and his goon squad have no idea how different this is, from a private enterprise "at will" workforce.
And the cherry on the top of all this -- is that according to the Wa Po's reporting -- his brute squad didn't bother to inform Tangerine 2.0 or his team members that he was running a raid on the federal HR offices. Damn. The "bromance" may be over -- even before February is:
. . .The [Musk-led] proposal, emailed late in the day to many of the nation’s 2.3 million federal workers, blindsided some advisers to President Donald Trump, including officials in the budget office and agencies that typically would be consulted in advance of such monumental changes to personnel and spending policies, the people said.
Since Trump took office, Musk has moved quickly to exert control over the Office of Personnel Management, the small independent agency that acts as a kind of human resources department for the federal government, issuing policy for agencies to implement. Musk personally visited the OPM’s offices Friday, [along with] several of his longtime surrogates -- including Anthony Armstrong, who helped Musk buy Twitter. . . .
These clowns deserve one another. But our able, even handed non-partisan federal workforce certainly deserved -- and deserves -- much better from the supposed leader of the free world. [In a subsequent post we will detail how it violates our treaty obligations (and likely the Geneva Conventions, if Tangerine preposterously claims this is any form of "enemy invasion") to even consider. . . housing putative deportees, at Gitmo. Damn.]
Onward, resolutely.
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