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The Establishments war on Donald Trump Title: Federal managers have some bad news for government workers They’re going to have to start laying some people off, and for much of Washington, DC, that’s a completely foreign concept. Agencies are “pretty certain” they will need to institute reductions in force as they aim to satisfy an executive order from President Trump and ensuing guidance from the Office of Management and Budget, said Leslie Pollack, deputy associate director of OPM’s HR Strategy and Evaluation Solutions, on WJLA’s “Government Matters” program. Those documents required executive branch agencies to reorganize themselves and, in the process, cut the size of their workforces. Pollack’s office, which provides human resources consulting to federal agencies, has assisted officials across government looking at “closing down or realigning functions.” On the one hand it’s rather tough to have too much sympathy for them. They’ve been getting warnings about this since the day President Trump was sworn in. (Did they think he was kidding?) Orders went out to begin planning for consolidation of redundancies and generally shrinking the federal behemoth. At first there was a lot of dancing around and alternative options being explored. Early retirement packages and generous golden parachutes were in the works. Some people were finagling for transfers to other departments before their positions were eliminated. But the cuts are coming and eventually the harsh light of inspection falls on everyone. The stated goals will not be reached by simply rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. A smaller federal government means fewer workers. And that means some people will have to go. The remarkable thing about the article linked above is the seeming shock which the managers are experiencing. Lay somebody off? What does that even mean? We don’t lay people off. They come here and stay until they retire or die. That’s how it works. Apparently not anymore. Welcome the world that rest of us live in. Poster Comment: Wouldn't it be ironic if the least conservative of GOP candidates, Trump, finally seriously shrunk the size and scope of federal govrnment, something the GOP has promised us for decades and carefully avoided fulfilling once they've gotten our votes? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 2.
#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)
But he also wants to parade his god-like ego. In doing so, he makes too many mistakes.
Just let him shrink the federal workforce and the scope of government as he campaigned for. He can declare himself a living god for all I care.
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