• @SarcasticMan
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    1041 month ago

    Normally I would say mass exit with a big middle finger to the voters is the way to go here, but these guys could probably keep their jobs and the status quo by gaslighting that dumb son of a bitch.

    • @givesomefucks
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      551 month ago

      If you want to see what resigning out of protest or fear from far right extremists leads to…

      Look up the KKK’s role in ending reconstruction, and what happened to the American South when anyone who wasn’t racist was afraid to vote let alone hold position in government.

      Giving up is rarely the right move, and federal employees have one of the strongest unions in America and it’s comically hard to be fired unless you’re a political appointee.

      And that is entirely intentional and for this exact scenario.

      Resigning just makes it easier for them for no reason. It concentrates the shitty employees who will go along with anything, and it shrinks the federal government when they don’t try to restaff

      • @dhork
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        211 month ago

        it’s comically hard to be fired unless you’re a political appointee.

        Didn’t they change the rules to count many more jobs as political appointees without protections right at the end of Trump’s term, only to have Biden change it back? Trump is definitely doing that again.

        • @givesomefucks
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          81 month ago

          That still covered the very top of departments, not entire agency workforces

          • @dhork
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            61 month ago

            Ah. I wasn’t aware of that. It still sucks, but maybe for the folks who are left and still protected by the union some malicious compliance is in order.

            • @givesomefucks
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              121 month ago

              In this scenario malicious compliance is doing your job properly and efficiently.

    • @[email protected]
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      291 month ago

      Yeah, stay. Occupy space. Drag your feet. Misinterpret instructions. Double and triple check them through slow back and forths. Just keep doing your real job until the idiots can get things in order through the bureaucracy to fire you. It’ll probably be a while, if ever.