Resign and get 8 months of pay

[wtg]

President Donald Trump has offered buyout packages to almost all federal workers who do not want to return to the office, a major move designed to shrink the US government.
In an email sent to millions of employees on Tuesday, his administration told workers they had to decide by 6 February whether they wanted to be part of a "deferred resignation program".
If they agreed to leave their jobs by that date, the message said, they would receive about eight months of salary as a severance package.
The Trump administration expects up to 10% of employees to accept the offer, or around 200,000 of the more than two million workers the federal government employs, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News..

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvqe3le3z4o

Get people to leave en masse. There’s been no mention of the positions being eliminated. Hire a bunch of loyalists to fill the open slots.

Brilliant. Evil, but brilliant.

[ShiroKuro]

I was talking to my mother about this dumpster fire that’s happening all over the U.S. right now, and she was going back to the “there are checks and balances in place, he’s not going to be able to destroy this country” and I said “those checks and balances are not going to function if the people in charge of implementing them are Trump loyalists, or if those positions are all just empty…”

[Daniel]

This does not bold well. Many agencies in the federal government are desperately short of employees now.

[Rontuner]

If anyone believes that they will get paid after resigning, they haven't thought about the many unpaid bills left behind the felon making the promise.

[Daniel]

I've know people who accepted eight month severance packages from major corporations and ended up receiving SSDI. I hope people understand that eight months of severance is kind of a cruel joke.

[pique]

I want to hear from Cindy. IIRR, she is at the DOJ, or a department of that dept. Paging Cindy!

[pique]

I hope those civil servants can find solidarity and refuse to leave. For the sake of the country.

[wtg]

Their jobs are not guaranteed if they stay; that was included in the email they received. They are faced with the real possibility that they could refuse to quit and be fired days later. An unenviable choice.

[Daniel]

My cousin works for the SSA. She's scared half out of her mind.

[wtg]

Sorry to hear that. Sadly it’s exactly what this action was meant to do and it’s been very effective.

Some thoughts from lawyers and unions about what to do/not do.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279365/federal-workers-resign-offer-buyout

Also this:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-federal-workers-resignation-offer-reaction

[wtg]

@Rontuner said in Resign and get 8 months of pay:

If anyone believes that they will get paid after resigning, they haven't thought about the many unpaid bills left behind the felon making the promise.

Tim Kaine, among many others, agrees.

Tim Kaine, a Democratic senator representing Virginia, where many federal employees live and work, warned against taking the offer, pointing to the president’s own history of stiffing employees. “Don’t fall for it! Trump told innumerable contractors he’d pay – then stiffed them. He has no authority to promise severance pay. Wait him out!” Kaine wrote on X.