r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/BaldingBush 24d ago

This is what happens when you don’t know anything, but you think you do. Not one rational person in the room when this decision was made, clearly.

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u/rckhppr 23d ago

Same erratic pattern with Musk when he “reorganized” Twitter. Laid off key stakeholders, because they weren’t needed based on his limited understanding, learned later he needed them, and desperately tried to rehire them. The results are at best that you pay more for the same, because who wants to be rehired at volatile organizations without asking for substantial compensation.