On a similar note, I have a friend who is a government auditor. Most of her coworkers were DOGEd several months ago. Now that it’s the end of the fiscal year, they realized they needed all those auditors back.
So they’ve attempted to rehire them. Except some don’t want to come back having retired or found new jobs.
The ones that did come back got 100% back pay for the time they were let go. So we essentially paid them to do nothing.
But also, they get their backdated PTO that they would have earned. Except they can only carry over a PTO balance of so much without losing it, so everyone that came back immediately had to go on PTO.
So not only did we pay them for nothing, we also brought them back to pay them for nothing. All while making the government actively worse.
The Department of Government Efficiency, ladies and gentlemen.
On a similar note, I have a friend who is a government auditor. Most of her coworkers were DOGEd several months ago. Now that it’s the end of the fiscal year, they realized they needed all those auditors back.
So they’ve attempted to rehire them. Except some don’t want to come back having retired or found new jobs.
The ones that did come back got 100% back pay for the time they were let go. So we essentially paid them to do nothing.
But also, they get their backdated PTO that they would have earned. Except they can only carry over a PTO balance of so much without losing it, so everyone that came back immediately had to go on PTO.
So not only did we pay them for nothing, we also brought them back to pay them for nothing. All while making the government actively worse.
The Department of Government Efficiency, ladies and gentlemen.
Crazy