When president-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line.
Malicious compliance. Do what you’re told, exactly what you’re told, no more, no less. Have you been doing “something” that nobody has told you to do, that’s outside of your job description? Stop doing that thing.
Make sure you take your time. Don’t hurry. Haste burns you out, stop it. Do not start working before the start of your day, and do not work past the end of it. If you are doing this, you are enabling wage theft. Go home, your time belongs to you.
Trump wants to run these agencies his way, with his people? Fine. In the context of people who need to keep drawing a paycheck, doing exactly as you’re told is appropriate.
Will this undermine these agencies? Of course, because they’re being run Trump’s way, with Trump’s people in charge. Will innocent bystanders experience fallout from this? Of course, because [same as above].
There’s no going back to the way it was. The only way out is through, and the quicker we get to the tipping point, the better.
Don’t quit. Government workers are entitled to more recourse than normal employees if they are going to be fired. Usually you can’t just fire them for no reason.
Quitting would also prevent severance pay.
Sue for defamation. He called your work “fake jobs”. Now his followers are threatening your life.
They’re working class people and the job market is shit. “Just quit” is a much bigger statement when you don’t have another job lined up and have bills to pay.
What the fuck are you talking about? They had a job doing whatever random thing they were paid to do. Keep airplanes from falling out of the sky, checking water quality, doing accounting… The right always politicizes government jobs. For example, they under funded the 2020 Census in areas that had left leaning growth. That directly impacts the number of congressional seats.
That’s a really bad take. A) Doing a job which is not specifically to carry out Trump’s will is not supporting him. B) Federal jobs are not inherently political, in fact very few are. C) even if they were in positions to effect political outcomes, they could use those positions to counter Trump’s agenda. They can’t do that if they quit. D) Nobody should be expected to abandon their livelihood for themselves and their families because they are tenuously, barely, kind of in a position that forwards Trump’s administrations policies. A USDA meat inspector quiting to spurnTrump will do nothing to Trump and yet ruin their career.
Civil service positions are apolitical. You are supposed to do them regardless of which party is in charge. That’s the whole point. Otherwise literally nothing would ever get done.
So quit. You provide a valuable service. Don’t do it anymore.
That’s what Musk is trying to do. Intimidate folks into quitting. So you’re just basically saying let Elon do the thing Elon wants to do.
If Govt services cease to function they fail
Yeah, that’s not the outcome anyone should want. When a function fails, we can’t just pop it back up when Trump isn’t President again. I had to go over this with the Trump term one tariffs. The reason Biden didn’t do away with them is because we violated the trade agreement to implement them. Once we violated the agreement, it doesn’t matter anymore what anyone does. It’s not fixable anymore. We have to go through decades worth of regaining political favor with the foreign country to repair it.
Same thing here. When the service fails, we can’t just pop it back up once Trump is no longer in office. If people start to hurt because a function fails, those people are going to be hurting for decades while we try to repair the damage. It’s one of those stack of cups kind of thing. It takes a significant amount of time to stack the cups compared to the half a second it takes to knock them all down.
then show why they were made by their absence
All that’s saying is that the next two decades should be complete shit for everyone except the insanely wealthy. I would rather not have that lesson, I don’t think it’s required. I also don’t think a lot of people would even learn the lesson even if they experienced it first hand.
That’s exactly what they want and I guarantee they will make it difficult for most employees so they do quit. An employee that quits on his own is a lot less expensive to the company then a fired one.
A indefinite strike until musk is fired from his position in the goverment however…
That’s exactly what they want and I guarantee they will make it difficult for most employees so they do quit.
They’ve already explained that as their strategy… first thing they are targetting is removing remote work? Why, because they know some people don’t want to work in the office, and that’s a good way to get a lot of them to quit.
Not sure if you haven’t noticed somehow… that’s exactly what the Republican party campaigns on and has been doing for the past 60+ years.
They literally campaign on the idea that Government does not work. They get into office, then don’t do the job well, proving that it doesn’t work well. All while reducing funding and cutting programs until they fail. People that actually know what they’re doing leaving just helps them.
Trump wants to kill branches, then show why they were made by their absence.
They don’t want any of those programs or services, because they don’t give a shit about them. The wealthy don’t care about public education, their kids go to private schools. An educated workforce is harder to control. Critical thinking is a threat to propaganda. They don’t care about you wiling situation as long as they keep their quality of life at the top, which just requires money, which they make through indirect means off the back of everyday workers in destitution. They’d rather you be in jail for a bullshit offense where slave labor is literally still legal. Don’t have to pay the inmates.
The programs they want still get plenty of funding and are in no danger. Things like the military and anything that can support the wealthy who don’t need it.
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Personally I like to keep getting paychecks while I line up my next job opportunity
Malicious compliance. Do what you’re told, exactly what you’re told, no more, no less. Have you been doing “something” that nobody has told you to do, that’s outside of your job description? Stop doing that thing.
Make sure you take your time. Don’t hurry. Haste burns you out, stop it. Do not start working before the start of your day, and do not work past the end of it. If you are doing this, you are enabling wage theft. Go home, your time belongs to you.
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The trick is to practice malicious compliance that targets Trump, and not American citizens who want watchdogs.
Trump wants to run these agencies his way, with his people? Fine. In the context of people who need to keep drawing a paycheck, doing exactly as you’re told is appropriate.
Will this undermine these agencies? Of course, because they’re being run Trump’s way, with Trump’s people in charge. Will innocent bystanders experience fallout from this? Of course, because [same as above].
There’s no going back to the way it was. The only way out is through, and the quicker we get to the tipping point, the better.
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Don’t quit. Government workers are entitled to more recourse than normal employees if they are going to be fired. Usually you can’t just fire them for no reason.
Quitting would also prevent severance pay.
Sue for defamation. He called your work “fake jobs”. Now his followers are threatening your life.
Class action?
They’re working class people and the job market is shit. “Just quit” is a much bigger statement when you don’t have another job lined up and have bills to pay.
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What the fuck are you talking about? They had a job doing whatever random thing they were paid to do. Keep airplanes from falling out of the sky, checking water quality, doing accounting… The right always politicizes government jobs. For example, they under funded the 2020 Census in areas that had left leaning growth. That directly impacts the number of congressional seats.
That’s a really bad take. A) Doing a job which is not specifically to carry out Trump’s will is not supporting him. B) Federal jobs are not inherently political, in fact very few are. C) even if they were in positions to effect political outcomes, they could use those positions to counter Trump’s agenda. They can’t do that if they quit. D) Nobody should be expected to abandon their livelihood for themselves and their families because they are tenuously, barely, kind of in a position that forwards Trump’s administrations policies. A USDA meat inspector quiting to spurnTrump will do nothing to Trump and yet ruin their career.
Civil service positions are apolitical. You are supposed to do them regardless of which party is in charge. That’s the whole point. Otherwise literally nothing would ever get done.
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In office? What are you talking about?
Civil service jobs are not elected positions.
“If you don’t like this country, move somewhere else” energy
That’s what Musk is trying to do. Intimidate folks into quitting. So you’re just basically saying let Elon do the thing Elon wants to do.
Yeah, that’s not the outcome anyone should want. When a function fails, we can’t just pop it back up when Trump isn’t President again. I had to go over this with the Trump term one tariffs. The reason Biden didn’t do away with them is because we violated the trade agreement to implement them. Once we violated the agreement, it doesn’t matter anymore what anyone does. It’s not fixable anymore. We have to go through decades worth of regaining political favor with the foreign country to repair it.
Same thing here. When the service fails, we can’t just pop it back up once Trump is no longer in office. If people start to hurt because a function fails, those people are going to be hurting for decades while we try to repair the damage. It’s one of those stack of cups kind of thing. It takes a significant amount of time to stack the cups compared to the half a second it takes to knock them all down.
All that’s saying is that the next two decades should be complete shit for everyone except the insanely wealthy. I would rather not have that lesson, I don’t think it’s required. I also don’t think a lot of people would even learn the lesson even if they experienced it first hand.
That’s exactly what they want and I guarantee they will make it difficult for most employees so they do quit. An employee that quits on his own is a lot less expensive to the company then a fired one.
A indefinite strike until musk is fired from his position in the goverment however…
They’ve already explained that as their strategy… first thing they are targetting is removing remote work? Why, because they know some people don’t want to work in the office, and that’s a good way to get a lot of them to quit.
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Not sure if you haven’t noticed somehow… that’s exactly what the Republican party campaigns on and has been doing for the past 60+ years.
They literally campaign on the idea that Government does not work. They get into office, then don’t do the job well, proving that it doesn’t work well. All while reducing funding and cutting programs until they fail. People that actually know what they’re doing leaving just helps them.
They don’t want any of those programs or services, because they don’t give a shit about them. The wealthy don’t care about public education, their kids go to private schools. An educated workforce is harder to control. Critical thinking is a threat to propaganda. They don’t care about you wiling situation as long as they keep their quality of life at the top, which just requires money, which they make through indirect means off the back of everyday workers in destitution. They’d rather you be in jail for a bullshit offense where slave labor is literally still legal. Don’t have to pay the inmates.
The programs they want still get plenty of funding and are in no danger. Things like the military and anything that can support the wealthy who don’t need it.
And thousands if not millions of people die, depending on how long it goes on for.