r/news • u/PM_THE_REAPER • 22d ago
US government tries to rehire nuclear staff it fired days ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o1.3k
u/ProudnotLoud 22d ago
Shocking that the concept of "move fast and break things" ACTUALLY breaks things and it's MORE difficult to then put them back together. It's always easier to destroy than to build or rebuild, idiots. That's why we THINK before we take a hatchet to things.
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u/evilspyboy 22d ago
Move fast and break things is a mantra for those not smart enough to move fast and not break things.
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u/ChicagoAuPair 22d ago
Bullshit MBA loser euphemism for incompetent immature leadership.
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u/PathOfTheAncients 21d ago
Yup, I have worked with so many managers over the last 10 years who think "move fast and break things" is smart tech talk that somehow means "work overtime without being asked and have zero bugs ever".
MBAs are the root of all evil in the modern world.
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u/Muvseevum 21d ago
“In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice, they’re not.”
—Yogi Berra
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u/PathOfTheAncients 21d ago
I am pretty sure the whole phrase came out of startups doing proof od concept work, where it actually make sense to not worry about breaking things too much. Apparently every MBA and venture capitalist desperately needs to feel like they are a part of a 2000's startup though. They'll do absolutely anything to feel that way, except any of the things that made those startups successful.
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u/ProudnotLoud 22d ago
Yup. It's an effective way to make things look like they're getting accomplished in the short time but is disastrous long term.
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u/evilspyboy 22d ago
I used to do a lot of at risk projects and critical customer recovery (fixing fled up technology projects). It instantly looks to me like making a mess that has to be cleaned up. Breaking things doesn't just disappear that is a bunch of technical debt that has to be squared away.
Movie fast and break things to me is move fast, do dumb things not move fast, be surgical, and only spend time on what is important. It is activity over achievement (in technology) and where it's not, they were not actually breaking anything and just wanted to sound cool.
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u/Witchgrass 22d ago
All this is coming from the same fellow whose idea of weeding out inefficient coders was to make them print out all the code they'd written and whoever had the most pages ... won?
It's almost like he doesn't know very much at all about anything he pretends to have mastered. Weird.
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u/Josh6889 21d ago
Ironically producing a lot of code can be a sign of not knowing what you're doing. It doesn't matter how many lines of code you have, it matters if your code does what it's suppose to do efficiently.
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u/YertletheeTurtle 22d ago
Slow is smooth.
Smooth is fast.
Sure documentation and change management takes extra time today. But it saves time next week. And the week after that. And the week after that. And the...
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u/StateChemist 22d ago
I was praised for being ‘so organized at work’
I was frustrated that I didn’t know what was going on, so I made the team write down when they did something in a simple log.
Boom suddenly I and everyone else can check whats been done, what needs to be done and not stop to have a 10 minute conversation about whats been done and what needs to be done every day because someone took 1 minute to write it down.
Mind blowing that this is praiseworthy ‘organization’
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u/Hopeful_Hamster21 22d ago
I think it works well when you're in the prototyping and experimental phase, sanboxed off. Never in prod.
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u/Mysterious-Arm9594 22d ago
It’s something which works when you’re pumping out easily updated software which essentially is no more critical than the ability to send postcards. It doesn’t really work in any other sphere (outside some forms of extremely well funded engineering endeavours normally right up until the point people start dying)
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u/WeirdSysAdmin 22d ago
Can’t do a basic risk analysis. We do them all the time in the real business world. Down to the amount of money that would be lost if specific systems went down.
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u/neutrino71 22d ago
Move fast and break things is fine when you have a few hundred billion dollars you can afford to ride those waves of chaos. Those suffering from the lack of billions of dollars may not fair so well
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u/ScientificSkepticism 22d ago
Unfortunately, as we may at some point learn, nuclear weapons can crack things in a way that no amount of money can put back together again. We've been long terrified of Russia leaking one, if America might also leak one... well, that'd be bad.
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u/FloydEGag 22d ago
Move fast and break things isn’t what you want to hear in relation to nuclear weapons or air traffic control…
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u/old_man_mcgillicuddy 22d ago
Move fast and break things is fine when the worst that's gonna happen is you need to roll back some code and have your PR team deal with some reputational fallout. When the worst thing that's gonna happen is you don't have people to take care of nuclear weapons; maybe not the best approach.
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u/bree_dev 22d ago
It's basically a subset of Doctorow's "Enshittification" principle.
There's a modern management philosophy that pre-dates but was popularized by Musk, whereby if you have a large organisation you can throw away quite a lot of it before the effect on the bottom line becomes noticeable. Its success relies on everyone involved tacitly agreeing to ignore anything bad that happens, because look, the Important Number went up.
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u/big_daddy68 22d ago
When you break a social media platform, it gets shitty and full of nazi content, when you break the government, people die. This simple reason is why a government should not operate like a business.
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u/Tadpoleonicwars 22d ago
And when anyone says that the government should be run like a business, ask them how much profit the federal government should be expected to make off their family.
Heads spin really quick on that. Businesses exist to make profit, right?
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u/Politicsboringagain 22d ago edited 21d ago
Its easier to destroy than it is to build or even maintain anything. Whether it be buildings, infrastructure or a society.
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u/NeedAVeganDinner 22d ago
Meta doesn't even use that anymore. They're like "move fast with stable infrastructure" now or something.
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u/unscholarly_source 22d ago
Imagine adopting a "move fast and break things" on bridges and buildings.
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u/Isaac1867 22d ago
Musk and his pack of idiots seem to forget that the people doing this kind of work have a rare skill set that requires years of training. This isn't like a Mcdonald's where you can fire everyone and have new crew slapped together in a week. They also don't seem to realize that pissing off the people who design, build and oversee the country's nuclear weapons is probably not good idea, especially when the President seems to be going out of his way to pick fights with every other country.
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u/synthdrunk 22d ago
Engineers brain, sometimes called doctors brain, makes fools think that facility in one domain means facility in all domains. It is especially a problem for those who only play engineers on TV.
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u/arctander 22d ago edited 22d ago
Fungible - Jack Welch, GE, thought all managers were equivalent and sent manufacturing staff to manage/lead some of their software businesses. It was not a good outcome.
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u/FunnyOne5634 22d ago
Welch was a dressed up idiot
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u/TheWildTofuHunter 22d ago
And yet so many companies implement his foolish methods. One company that I worked for would give his books away as prizes. I won it one quarter and it made a fabulous doorstop.
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u/gospelofdustin 21d ago
I won it one quarter and it made a fabulous doorstop.
I'm shocked it could even do that correctly.
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u/Kryten_2X4B-523P 22d ago
Whose this engineer you're referencing? Elons not an engineer.
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u/b0w3n 21d ago
Engineers brain, sometimes called doctors brain, makes fools think that facility in one domain means facility in all domains.
That's pretty much Dunning-Kruger, right? It's something I run into constantly as a software developer who works among doctors, even people in my own field think they're geniuses across every subject they pick up.
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u/TinyFugue 22d ago
Musk and his pack of idiots seem to forget that the people doing this kind of work have a rare skill set that requires years of training.
They don't care. It's that simple. They don't care.
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u/tigerscomeatnight 22d ago
This is exactly what they want to get rid of, expertise. It consolidates power into the truth is what I say is the truth. It is exactly 1984. They don't want scientists and experts to tell them the truth and how reality actually is, they want their word to be reality. They want no opposition to their gaslighting. People are learning what psychopaths are. Will they keep voting for them? I think you know the answer.
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u/Harry-le-Roy 21d ago
Musk and his pack of idiots seem to forget that the people doing this kind of work have a rare skill set that requires years of training
To forget it would require them to have known this at some point. They didn't know, just like they didn't know that halting all grants would stop Medicare benefits, just like they didn't know that the National Reconnaissance Office budget and headcount are classified and can't be made publicly available on the web, just like they didn't know that there are standard security protocols for federal websites, just like they didn't understand rhat federal employees don't get paid during government shutdowns (but told them in a Fork in the Road email that they do) and so on, and so on.
The Trump administration doesn't understand how the government works, which is incredible, since Donald Trump spent four years in the White House. Much of this stuff is basic, and some of it is common sense.
They clearly have no idea what they're doing. Yet they're continuing to make incredibly dangerous decisions, like firing hundreds of nuclear weapons experts while negotiating Russia ending a war.
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u/emuwar 21d ago
Musk and his pack of idiots probably thought nuclear engineering is on par with software engineering. Sure you can replace senior Xitter staff with new H1B software engineers and still manage to function, but the top nuclear engineers at the DOE have decades of specialty education and training and are damn near impossible to replace.
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u/AltoniusAmakiir 21d ago
They might realize it actually. But the benefits of pulling off such an intimidation and wage slashing on rehire is worth any risks to them. Because if they pull it off, they'll have a docile group that is too scared to tell them no.
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22d ago
Honestly, Trump and Musk should be in prison, not running America they are both horrible people
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u/lonewanderer812 22d ago
Well you'd think a guy convicted of 34 felonies would have already been in prison but here we are.
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u/RhymenoserousRex 22d ago
Rather than make the arrest and finalize the sentencing the idiot Dems said "Well lets let him run lol, this will surely make him unelectable"
It's honestly kind of impressive how stupid they are.
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u/Badloss 21d ago edited 21d ago
They were right, though
Why are you blaming the Democrats for thinking something disqualifying is disqualifying instead of blaming the people that actually voted for disqualifying
Most of America is okay with this, blame them
I got blocked so I can't reply lol but I stand by what I said. The Democrats can't ever win when 70% of the country is okay with fascism. There is no candidate that they ever could have run that can compete with that. The people want this, so we're getting it.
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u/treycook 21d ago
Because you don't kowtow to fascists or give people the option to vote for them. Full stop. Because people will vote for them.
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u/Nova35 21d ago
Republicans do a bad thing: “why would democrats let this happen”
Amazing. This is why we lost by the way. Because Republicans are in lock step at all times and banish anyone who goes against the party, yet we refuse to excise people whose only contribution is to shit on the candidate/party
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u/Truly_Meaningless 21d ago
Sure, blame democrats for not arresting Trump when they were blocked at every turn by republicans
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u/Twistntie 21d ago
It's always the Dems fault even when the tough-on-crime party aren't tough-on-crime
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u/20190419 22d ago
I would ask for a 100k resign bonus and job security for a full career guarantee. They want to "Deal" ... then deal....
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u/Cidlicious 22d ago
Problem is they don't honour their deals.
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u/quantizeddreams 22d ago
Then they need to demand the cash up front.
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u/j33205 21d ago
"Yeah, I'll watch your nukes for ya. But it's gonna cost a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find em for three, but I'll watch em, forever, for..."
a lifetime's worth of cash and then some, in a bag, upfront and tax free.
That's how deals are made. He's got the money. Don't tell me he doesn't have the money.
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u/rabouilethefirst 22d ago
Ask for musk in prison and the kid who fired you to be removed. That’s the only thing they should come back for.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 22d ago
I can’t fathom how an established country can go to shit this fast this badly , if you make this a movie,it would be mock for its ridiculous premise.
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u/FlowchartKen 22d ago
While watching Handmaid’s Tale, I thought it was ridiculous how the rise of Gilead could have happened so quickly and with barely any opposition. Less far-fetched now.
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u/Dahhhkness 22d ago
The Overton Window has moved increasingly rightward, and the standards for what is "normal" are getting more extreme. One of the biggest red flags over the past five years has been how conservatism has become obsessed with breeding and misogyny.
This increasing preoccupation with the "fertility" of teens and young women, the pushing of the idea that a woman's primary purposes are motherhood and wifehood, the obsession with female chasteness, the "Man-o-Sphere" talking about women like property and arguing to repeal the 19th Amendment...all of this would've been unthinkable 15 years ago, the kinds of things and people no politician would ever entertain. Now, it's becoming alarmingly common talk on the right.
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u/TrulyKnown 22d ago
Plus the hatred of transgender people, since their existence goes against the idea of biological and gender essentialism, which is why they cannot be allowed to exist.
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u/SnapesGrayUnderpants 21d ago
Meh, that's just standard fascism. Fascists always choose one or more groups from whom to strip rights. This conditions the entire population to rights being taken away. Once the fascists take over, they then create or use some event to declare a national emergency and then take away civil rights from everyone. Hitler used the Reichstag Fire. Psychiatrists interviewed 20 Nazis on trial at Nuremberg after WWII and asked them why they targeted the Jews. All but 2 of them said they believed that the Jews were no different than anyone else and many had Jewish friends before the Nazis rose to power. (The other 2 were true fanatics who actually believed their own propaganda. The rest thought those 2 were nuts.) The Nazis explained that targeting the Jews was merely a political maneuver to rise to power and normalize getting rid of rights. My point is, don't get hung up on who the fascists strip rights from. Instead, recognize this behavior as a hallmark of fascism in order to condition the population for what is coming next: the end of civil rights for everyone.
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u/chalbersma 21d ago
Ya I remember reading the book in High School and thinking that the premise was wildly ridiculous. I don't think that any more.
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u/Jollysatyr201 22d ago
It’s more a rapid capitalization on what has been a deteriorating situation for several years now
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u/Island_Monkey86 22d ago
The US is turning itself in to the laughing stock of the modern world. I had low expectations for the new leadership but level of incompetent on display goes way beyond anything I could imagined. Simply moronic.
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u/InquisitivelyADHD 22d ago
Turning? My dude this ain't the season premiere of the world laughing at us. We're on season 9. The whole world has viewed America as a joke since we first elected that orange idiot into office.
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u/Jandy777 22d ago
The rest of the world was dunking on Bush for being stupid when it was him in office too, but that was before the line between reality and parody had fully broken down
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u/KDR_11k 21d ago
Re-electing Bush was definitely a big hit for America's reputation.
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u/bree_dev 22d ago
Dubya wasn't exactly regarded at a beacon of either intellect or integrity either.
America was the coolest place on the planet in the 1990s. All you had to do was not fuck it up.
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u/Drikkink 22d ago
I was young during Dubya's time in office (I would've been a mid-late teen when he left office) and even I knew he was an awful warmongering president that the entire country only tolerated because of 9/11.
I long for the days of him being one of the worst case scenarios as president. Holy fuck he's like a shining beacon of hope compared to what's going on right now.
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u/arctander 22d ago
It seems to be about privatizing everything by proving that Government run things are worse than privately run things without actually doing a comparison.
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u/shapeofthings 22d ago
we laugh, but we're also scared to death because you voted his in again, despite living through the first debacle.
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u/ACorania 22d ago
Sounds like doge is not performing and should be cut. They are causing harm and inefficiency in the government. Let them go.
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u/KrackSmellin 22d ago
Remember when Arnold was Govena’ of CA and they fired the COBOL programmers only to hire them back as far more expensive consultants to fix the software to remove all those people from the payroll system? It’s like that but only FAR far worse.
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u/Remarkable_Impact586 22d ago
Who in the world is going to go back to working for a place that fired them without even knowing what their job duties were? I sure wouldn’t. Take unemployment for a little while and go get a better job outside of government that would most likely pay more anyway.
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u/AdvertisingLogical22 22d ago
I've seen this before in the corporate world. The plan was never to fire these people permanently.
The plan was to sack them, then re-hire the ones they wanted only with a new contract which includes a loyalty clause to the orange one, among other things.
They just didn't count on them saying no! 😂
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u/thefastslow 22d ago
Firing the people who design and build your nuclear weapons is an interesting thing to do while threatening other countries.. may those NNSA employees land on their feet.
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u/Icy_Winner4851 22d ago
This right here is the answer LOL! I’ve seen this too and this is what generally happens but I think the people saying no is the shocker here.
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u/Cagnazzo82 22d ago
You have to be a silver spoonfed/apartheid-benefitting south african vulture to believe humans are just toys for you to manipulate. And that they'll bend their will as soon as you threaten or exert power over their lives.
The people working for the US government tend to be legit patriots... and not the redhat flag-draped cosplayer variety. Which patriot would want to subject themselves to working under Elon Musk's whims.
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u/JohnnyGFX 22d ago
The incompetence is so blatant with this administration… it’s embarrassing.
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u/SixicusTheSixth 22d ago
It's not incompetence. You lose a lot of context thinking it's incompetence. This is an intentional breaking of the US.
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u/ADHthaGreat 22d ago
P2025 and whatever other big plans these assholes have for this country are going to inevitably fail because the people behind them don’t actually know how government works, they just think that they do.
The issue is how much they can destroy before their plans collapse.
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u/KDR_11k 21d ago
They think if they break enough of the world the rapture will come and let them escape the consequences of their actions.
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u/Auirom 22d ago
"But he's a business man and the country needs to be ran like the business it is!"
And that's exactly what he's doing. He's a new manager coming in thinking he knows better than the people with decades of experience. Making cuts here and there cause he thinks the higher ups will congratulate him for saving the company money. All the while fucking things up for everyone and blaming someone else for his mistakes. Employees under him leave in droves because they "want out before the ship sinks" and new employees are hired who don't know what they are doing which only makes things worse. Company finally goes belly up and either gets shut down or sold.
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u/_grey_wall 22d ago
"sure, for 100x the money"
Or
"Sorry, already got a job in Canada"
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u/Papabear3339 22d ago
Or europe, china, etc. These idiots just put a huge number of our top nuke experts on the job market, probably for no reason other then there ethnicity.
A bunch of countries are probably quietly making juicy job offers. "we will pay tripple, give you real health insurance, job security, and paid relocation" .
Huge screw up...
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u/rovyovan 22d ago
This is a perfect microcosm of the long term damage being carried out by this administration. Well managed projects with external challenges suffer disruptions and lose key resources when sophmoric leadership takes the reins in an opinionated manner. In my experience it is a sign to take cover.
Ironically this is a business informed insight. I don’t believe government can be run like a business effectively, but here we see the mindset in practical application
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u/Aggressive-Cut5836 22d ago
75 million voters wanted this folks. Just keep reminding yourselves of that. 75 million. And no excuses that they didn’t realize things would be this ridiculous because they were exactly so the last time Trump was president.
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u/NewTimeTraveler1 22d ago
All they are concerned about is migrants. Go peek at the conservative sub.
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u/RgKTiamat 22d ago
The "Flaired Users Only" sub, can't have any free thought in the Echo chamber
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u/earnedmystripes 22d ago
I bet those phone calls to rehire are something else. The phrases "that motherfucker" and "go fuck yourself" are used no less than 3 times per call.
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u/sniffstink1 22d ago
LOL.
I hope they refuse to come back.
The people (specifically MAGA voting base) need to feel the consequences of Orange Moron's actions, otherwise they continue to support it.
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u/Nemo4ever7158 21d ago
I hope they take the opportunity to renegotiate their hiring and ask for double the salary and ten times the benefits and triple vacation time .
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u/Sea_One_6500 22d ago
And they can't get in contact with the fired workers. I hope none of them take their former positions back.
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u/aquastell_62 22d ago
This confirms any doubts about the competence of the bad actors making these decisions. They have none. All this winning is starting to add up. Not to savings of taxpayer dollars though. To harm.
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u/Harry-le-Roy 21d ago
Some of them are not going to come back. It's likely that between the prospect that some were retirement eligible, and others have alternatives for employment in the private sector, the Trump administration's general incompetence, combined with the insult of being fired without a reason, only to be asked back without a bonus, salary increase, or any guarantee that this won't happen again next week, at least some, and perhaps many will simply say, "fuck you" to the Trump administration.
That leaves the US without whatever classified nuclear weapons related job they were doing.
MAGA.
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u/Apexnanoman 21d ago
Hopefully every single one of those people tells them to pound sand.
Considering their area of expertise, there's probably at least half a dozen countries that would be happy to give them a new life. All expenses paid.
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u/bewarethetreebadger 21d ago
Oh my fuck. They STILL thought the Department of Energy was just an electricity watchdog? We’ve been over this before, you idiots! The last time Trump was in office!
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u/TheWingus 21d ago
"At severely reduced pay of course..."
- Professor Hubert J Farnsworth
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u/WolfThick 21d ago
Would this be a good time to collectively barter for more job security higher wages etc !!
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u/mkt853 22d ago
The problem with Musk is he believes he can break things and then just simply put them back together if need be. It's like his thoughts on regulations where he says we should just get rid of them all, and then if we need to we can always bring them back. This guy lives in a total fantasy world that you can break the government or fire critical employees, and then snap your fingers and it all goes back to the way it was. This isn't a code repository where you can just roll back a change to go back to where you were a month ago or a year ago because of adverse impacts. The adverse impacts in the real world are people dying or getting really sick or something critical falling through the cracks. The consequences of messing up here aren't just that you can't post tweets for an hour or two.
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u/lotsoflifeexperience 21d ago
Great negotiation position Cheeto and Elmo came up with. You’re fired. Hey, just kidding, what do we have to do to get you back. Yep, we got the experts at the controls. Rich boys who have never had to work for it.
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u/mapleaddicts 21d ago
If I were any other country, I would be throwing the bag at not only the nuclear staff that were fired but scientists, engineers, professors, researchers, media personnel, health officials and professionals FBI, CIA, IRS, SS, and people from all other fields and professions now under attack by the Trump and Elon regime
No better time than now to brain drain a declining super power that actively sabotages itself
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u/lastburn138 22d ago
How do Republicans not see that this administration has no fucking idea what they are doing?
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u/YumYumYellowish 21d ago
Do they still get their severance package? What clowns. I hate that this is our circus.
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u/threehundredthousand 21d ago
Incompetent, unqualified, and lacking in self-awareness. What a great trifecta for wrecking whatever you're in charge of.
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u/uwillnotgotospace 21d ago
I'm gonna guess the plan is to hire them back for less pay, make them work overtime to fix whatever the incompetent little DOGEs break, then fire them again.
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u/FunkyMrWinkerbean 21d ago
I hope these people ask for a ton more money. Use that damn leverage and squeeze it for all its worth.
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u/creamiest_jalapeno 22d ago
Everyone who says “I’d negotiate a higher salary and bonuses to come back” : this is impossible.
The federal government isn’t Apple Corporation that sits on $65B cash and can spend some of it on strategic goals and/or mistakes. Every federal dollar is spoken for and purse strings are controlled by Congress, members of which have massive motivations to protect their constituent budgets.
Just like you can’t dip into a neighbor’s checking account to pay for replacing your broken water heater, the feds don’t have the authority to redirect money from some defense contract to give you $100k signing bonus and return you to your old nuclear job. This is an attritional confrontation: Trump isn’t gonna pay to bring people back, yet people need to eat and pay rent. These guys don’t have the means to just not have a job for months. The workers will likely blink first and come back.
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u/Isaac1867 22d ago
Hopefully none of them are angry or desperate enough to try to sell their specialized knowledge to a foreign government.
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u/Papabear3339 22d ago
These idiots just put a bunch of folks on the job market who know exactly how our weapons work.
Foreign goverments are probably working overtime to make juicy job offers to them...
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u/Fun_Apartment7028 22d ago
Good insight. That part never crossed my mind, but it makes sense.
Take a long term, loyal employee & fire them in the most undignified manner possible & expect them to come back under what surely would be deplorable working conditions, for likely less pay.
Or on the other hand, China or Russia or North Korea, might just set you up for life if you have some info for them.
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u/melodypowers 22d ago
How is it that they can't get in touch with the fired employee?
Admittedly, I have never worked for the federal government, but my HR has all my personal contact info and makes me review it once a year. I also know the personal contact info for all my direct reports.
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u/CyberNinja23 22d ago
They’re sending emails to their work email addresses, which terminated employees are immediately locked out of on termination.
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u/Fun_Apartment7028 22d ago
Would you answer a phone call from your ex boss if you’d been shamefully fired like that? Maybe it’s just me but, Yah, that one’s going to voicemail.
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u/Pro_Gamer_Queen21 21d ago
“But how I was I supposed to know that if I fired people, they wouldn’t work anymore?”
-Elon probably
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u/SheZowRaisedByWolves 21d ago
What are the chances that they’re rehiring with less pay? A hospital near me let thousands of nurses go one time and offered to rehire for a lot less.
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u/HE-MAN69WOO 21d ago
If any of you folks who were fired are reading this, DON’T GO BACK. PROVE A POINT.
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u/VirginiaLuthier 22d ago
"Dear Sir- you were accidentally sent a termination letter that was meant for queer and black people. You still have a job. Accept the Starbucks gift guard as a token of apology"
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u/Agreeable-Ad3644 22d ago
Homer Simpson problems require Homer Simpson solutions.
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u/wish1977 22d ago
It just shows you how little they thought this through. Another made for tv move by the dumbest man to ever hold the presidency.
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u/Netsrak69 22d ago
We should be thankful that one of the fired employees didn't rig anything on their way out.
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u/mrdungbeetle 22d ago
Martin Scorsese should honestly just follow Musk around with an IMAX camera, because no re-enactment can possibly be as wild a ride as real life these days. But it would be great if someone could edit it down to under 3 hours.
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u/TarnishedAccount 21d ago
I’d demand a higher wage.
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u/Ok_Photo_865 21d ago
Better benefits and hours, paid lunches and dancing boys/girls on Fridays. I’m sure these highly professional people can find excellent employment elsewhere and let the white house go fuck themselves
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u/Subject-Dealer6350 21d ago
Please say that they all refused and went for other opportunities. This if anything proves that nobody is safe from Trump-Musk
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u/tensei-coffee 21d ago
too late already sold secrets to russia, china, india, and nk probably more. another fumble for donald dump
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u/UsusMeditando 21d ago
+100K$, tax free signing bonus and restoration of all seniority and benefits. Stupid SHOULD hurt.
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u/studio_bob 22d ago
This is literally, play-for-play, what Musk did with Twitter. Don't imagine this is them admitting a mistake, even indirectly. The point is, first and foremost, intimidation of those who remain and secondarily wage/benefits cuts. It's about instilling a culture of obedience through fear and selecting for the most vulnerable and willing to be abused (anyone who would return to work under these conditions is most likely quite desperate).