MIAMI (AP) — 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.
I would get together with my entire department/ division, and respond as a group, and demand double pay, and lots of perks, to return. They either pay it, or somehow recruit and train the entire department.
Then unionize the entire Federal government.
Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation
Saved Billions there, right?
And as another commenter said: the full story is even worse. Add to that that these guys will have a LOT of extra work to get their workplace in order.
And the best ones said fuck it, I’m going elsewhere.
Well done, DOGE
Destroyers of Government Efficiency.
the employees would be a fools, if they arnt asking for triple the pay, plus severance, and other stipulations incase they are refired again, which will happen.
Ahh yes, hire them back just in time for the government to shutdown because you’re such a a fucking idiot trump.
I’m guessing they replacing people with AI didn’t work and nobody from the private sector is willing to touch that for what the administration is willing to pay.
As per the Dead Sea Effect, the people who are coming back aren’t the ones they want.
I had to google the Dead Sea Effect: it means that when a workplace has a bad culture, the most skilled and ambitious workers are first to leave and those who have a habit to do the minimum will remain.
Anyway, I’d say this effect is weaker in this situation, because many workers are there truly to serve their country, not merely as “generic workers”. They might feel that they have something important to contribute to the society, which means there’s an actual chance for even some of the best to return.
What a shit article. The courts ruled that the hundreds of employees that were placed on admin leave pending termination for working there less than a year were fired illegally. They cannot fire them. Since they are still on admin leave they have to come back.
What they failed to mention is that all of the employees who were put on admin leave pending termination, who then took the “fork” offer do not get to come back because they “quit.”
The GSA was and is DOGE central and is completely broken right now.
EVERYTHING is completely broken right now.
As long as it’s former employees. I’ve been expecting restaffing but with party loyalists.
pretty hard to find COMPETENT loyalist, who know how things work in government.
This wasn’t that well thought out.
I expected them to outsource or privatize.
Muppets.
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