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So, Trump has offered 1 million federal workers the chance to opt to resign within 2 weeks and receive 8 months pay. It's expected around 10% might take that option. That's around 200k employees off the payroll.

That means that those who choose this option receive enough money and time to sort themselves out with new employment. In fact those that quickly find new employment would be getting double pay for over half a year.

why not announce it all at once so there was less confusion among the general public and those affected?

I believe all the relevant government employees were emailed. They have a choice whether to accept or not, so not sure why they would feel anxious. I guess if enough people don't take voluntary resignation then there will eventually follow a wave of compulsory resignations with a less appealing severance package.

As for the general public being informed, I think it's pretty clear that the media would do their best to misinform them as quickly as possible, regardless. Either way it's not particularly important what the man on the street, or the New York Times thinks about it.

So yeah, there is going to be a layoff of 100K... of ... 2.2 MILLION civil service employees, or about 4.5%. That hardly moves the unemployment needle

Honestly it is needed. Government associates do the absolute minimum and some departments are completely unnecessary. The best thing you could ever do is erase them and start over.

The large mass of the feds is fat and lethargic. It needs a good trimming. And truthfully anyone worth their metal will be able to find a job in the civilian sector just fine.

Besides, if you are an employee paid by the taxpayer money and do this:

https://afn.net/opinions/joshua-arnold/2025/01/15/federal-employees-plan-resist-movement-against-their-new-boss/

Then you are not doing your job. Period. Hate Trump or biden, or any politician as much as you want. If you take a job in government its your job to follow the orders by the president, govnernor, mayor, etc. its not your job to decide that politician is so bad you will stop doing your job, or worse make it so no one in your department can get work done. At that point just quit.

There's lots of jobs working for partisan offices if working for a (D) or (R) is a deal breaker for you.

“If President[-elect Donald] Trump gave them a legal order which they thought was bad policy, nearly two-thirds (64%)” of “Federal Government Managers” who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris “would ignore the order and do what they thought was best,”

Republican or Democrat, if you won't do your job because you don't agree with the policy of the politician who won, you should be fired.

And don't get me started on automation