Here’s how that process is going so far for at least one federal employee.
After receiving the offer, the employee – who works at a federal agency – told ABC News they were initially nervous and fearful about the prospect. But after thinking it over for about a day, they followed the instructions in the OPM email and replied with the word “resign” in the body and their name in the subject line, according to a copy of the email reviewed by ABC News.
“This is happening,” the employee told ABC News. “I was scared, nervous, and excited all at the same time. Thought about it for a day I think. … And I just told myself that I’m going to do it.”
A few hours later, they received a response from OPM: “We received your email response. We will reply shortly,” according to an email reviewed by ABC News.
Nearly a week later – and days before the resignation deadline on Thursday – that message is the last direct correspondence this employee has had with OPM about accepting the offer.
The employee said that inside their agency, there has been confusion among their colleagues and silence from management. When they informed management that they had accepted OPM’s offer, they received no response, according to the employee.
Later, when they followed up with management, they were told they should have waited for more guidance before accepting the offer, they told ABC News.
It’s too good to be true. I was given the same offer and am denying it. Our union even mentioned that when Twitter did this and people sued the courts went with Twitter. I’m not trusting Cheeto in chief to honor this deal and honestly working for the government is still better than the private sector in my area.
This is the upshot: you cannot win by cooperating with chaos. The cavalry isn’t coming. It’s you. Keep your head on a swivel out there, and don’t make bargains with any more dark fae.
“Oh, shit, someone said yes??!?? Now what do we do?”
NGL though… if someone offered me 8 months severance to quit, I’d sorely think about it. 4 years of mortgage payments?
Musk is getting sued for not paying out for the same thing at twitter.
There’s a solid chance they don’t get anything they were promised.
Or only the first ones will get it before the pot dries out… Shitty situation but it’s coming, why stick around when the house is collapsing?
These guys are defined by their lack of follow through.
It’s entirely possible they’ll get distracted by something else and leave this particular team alone.
Sounds like the person who took the offer was in a similar situation. They sure claim it isn’t because of some love of Elon Musk.
Later, when they followed up with management, they were told they should have waited for more guidance before accepting the offer, they told ABC News.
Sounds like shitty management to me. “An offer was provided to you by our superiors, and you made an independent decision regarding it without consulting us. You should have waited until we told you what to do.”
They have sent out three clarifying emails since the original offer email. Everyone should have waited even if yiou were considering it because the original email had ambiguity and the program was only half thought out.
I found the offending management:
Shitting on the middle managers here is kinda uncalled for. At most they know exactly as much as the peons.
If they don’t know anything more than the employee they should not tell the employee they should or shouldn’t do something.
They were given a direct order from their higher ups, contradicting such could be grounds for termination for their middle management.
Another day in the banana republic.
