Apparently 75,000 workers have accepted the offer. Trump has now withdrawn this program to new entries. 

 

What I think will happen is that he'll wait and see how it works out then reintroduce it again. Some employees who were swithering may well take up the offer if the see former employees doing well. 

 

We'll see. But, anyway, yet another win for Trump, reducing the workforce by 75,000 in his first month. Also, irritating for the left who seem to believe that the courts will block everything that Trump proposes. 

 

In my opinion, it would have been outrageous for the courts to interfere with adults personal decision to quit their job. No wonder they found that the unions had no standing to interfere in individuals right to choose. 

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-rules-trumps-sweeping-plan-persuade-federal-workers-resign-can-m-rcna191947

 

I was just watching the news program about  government employees  working in a converted mine in Pennsylvania---its the dept that deals with retiring or wishing to leave Gov employment.

The near unbelievable part about it is that they have no computers to work with---its all done by hand, sometimes it takes 3-6 months to OK the request to leave as the paper work is shuffled around the different dept in the Mine.

700 employees work there and because there are no computers the maximum amount of requests a month that they can process is 10,000 (something 2 or 3  computers would probably do in a day) apparently this has been the case since the 60s -so there is no one president to blame. However Musk (you know that really bad guy thats working on graft and inefficiency-that everyone  hates) heard about it. Visited it---now its on the list .

 

 

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.

700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.

 

 

 

Snopes Fact check--- Elon Musk is correct..

 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-retirement-mine/

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, oxo1947 said:

 

I was just watching the news program about  government employees  working in a converted mine in Pennsylvania---its the dept that deals with retiring or wishing to leave Gov employment.

The near unbelievable part about it is that they have no computers to work with---its all done by hand, sometimes it takes 3-6 months to OK the request to leave as the paper work is shuffled around the different dept in the Mine.

700 employees work there and because there are no computers the maximum amount of requests a month that they can process is 10,000 (something 2 or 3  computers would probably do in a day) apparently this has been the case since the 60s -so there is no one president to blame. However Musk (you know that really bad guy thats working on graft and inefficiency-that everyone  hates) heard about it. Visited it---now its on the list .

 

 

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.

700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.

 

 

I don't know if its just unbelievable or flat out embarrassing. Maybe both. 

 

Daily Mail link to the buy out result 

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-rules-trumps-sweeping-plan-persuade-federal-workers-resign-can-m-rcna191947

 

 

It appears that this force reduction will save the Federal government around $9 billion a year, so around $30 billion over four years taking into account the salaries are guaranteed till September.  

Expect the usual suspects to slither over soon and start calling this a coup and constitutional crisis

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

Expect the usual suspects to slither over soon and start calling this a coup and constitutional crisis

 

Wait till they hear that the DOGE team has increased from 6 to 100 

6 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

Wait till they hear that the DOGE team has increased from 6 to 100 

The illegal unconstitutional DOGE team, but what you worry?

49 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Expect the usual suspects to slither over soon and start calling this a coup and constitutional crisis

 

Barely took 20 minutes.

40 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The illegal unconstitutional DOGE team, but what you worry?

Your comment alleging that DOGE is illegal and unconstitutional is, as always with you, a blatant out and out lie.

 

 

From the NBC link in the OP:

In his ruling Wednesday, O'Toole found that the unions lacked legal standing to bring the suit.

(Judge O'Toole): "The plaintiffs here are not directly impacted by the directive."

(Everett Kelley, the head of the one of the unions involved in the suit) also noted the ruling "did not address the underlying lawfulness of the program."

9 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

From the NBC link in the OP:

In his ruling Wednesday, O'Toole found that the unions lacked legal standing to bring the suit.

(Judge O'Toole): "The plaintiffs here are not directly impacted by the directive."

(Everett Kelley, the head of the one of the unions involved in the suit) also noted the ruling "did not address the underlying lawfulness of the program."
 

 

And? 

 

In which planet is it illegal for employees to voluntarily accept a pay off package? 

3 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

And? 

 

In which planet is it illegal for employees to voluntarily accept a pay off package? 

But there's nothing in the budget to pay the payoff from, therefore it's illegal. Affected parties need to refile and this minor win for Trump will be alleviated.

2 hours ago, theblether said:

 

And? 

 

In which planet is it illegal for employees to voluntarily accept a pay off package? 

No 'And' from me -- I just posted a quote from  your link.

4 hours ago, gargamon said:

But there's nothing in the budget to pay the payoff from, therefore it's illegal. Affected parties need to refile and this minor win for Trump will be alleviated.

Got to wait until the payoff isnt paid. If.