Sua Sponte

Unfortunately, after being told to terminate two people yesterday my name appeared on a list to be terminated. Been a wild ride.

Prepare to laugh, because that joke is about to be reality.

“If the Republican plan passes under the rosiest assumptions, which aren’t even true, we’re gonna add $328 billion to the deficit this year, we’re gonna add $295 billion to the deficit the year after that, and $242 billion to the deficit after that, under the rosiest assumptions” Massie warned, adding “Why would I vote for that?”

No complaints when Trump fired the IGs.

Yeah, the attorneys know it’s illegal. That’s why Kash Patel told the FBI not to respond.

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Yeah, but you probably did Weekly Activity Reports (WAR) for leaders in your CoC. Not for some random dude on a social media site based on a tweet.

Then why did I, a DoD employee, get the email at 1 am today? Then why did Elon's tweet say "federal employees" instead of specifying agencies? It's almost like he thinks he's our CEO and can do what he wants, however, he's learning that's not necessarily the case.

I took a $35K pay cut, leaving the private sector to be a federal employee. If I need to, I'll find somewhere to work (with private sector salaries). It's the 60-year-old Bob in XP who retired as an E-6 and has never worked in the private sector, like you said, the ones who need to be removed.

Federal employees have to do bi-weekly timecards. If they're a day late, the civilian finance folks bitch at supervisors to have them turned in (I know, I'm a supervisor). We also get bitched at when employees are in use or lose leave (CONUS federal employees can only carry up to 240 hours of leave, it's higher overseas). Federal employees also get annual performance appraisals, which the employee also has to fill out and review. Just because Elon claims some bullshit on X, that doesn't make it true. He should probably focus on the 26-year-old he creampied taking pictures of their private Signal chat with expiring messages.

His Grok 3.0 AI that he's scraping data LLMs for to train it. Big reason why he wants access to all government IT systems.

Nice! Better than the 20 year.

CH got his wish! Hegseth also said that Gen. James Slife, the vice chief of the Air Force, had been fired, and that he was “requesting nominations” for the Judge Advocates General for the Army, Navy and Air Force, indicating they will be replaced. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/trump-fires-top-us-general-cq-brown/index.html

Trump just fired CQ Brown. Trump says he is nominating Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman. Caine is a career F-16 pilot who served on active duty and in the National Guard, and had most recently served as the associate director for military affairs at the CIA, according to his official military biography. https://apnews.com/article/trump-brown-joint-chiefs-of-staff-firing-fa428cc1508a583b3bf5e7a5a58f6acf

Nah, I know the Knoxville -135 unit. Great bros. Now the Birmingham ANG......

I was enlisted, a good majority of officers are retarded.

I was told today that I had 15 minutes to provide data to justify two GS-07s jobs that work for me. When I sent the data in, the exec (some Major) didn't send it in time, and so the response didn't include the data when they wanted it. Now I'm expecting to have both employees terminated by Friday, and I can't hire anyone to replace them.

You can add in IMA Reservists while you’re at it.

Federal employee supervisor here. Firing an employee with causation (e.g., poor performance, not maintaining a security clearance, etc.) while on probation is perfectly legal. Firing an employee due to “poor performance” where there is no documentation from the supervisor chain of poor performance is illegal. Some employees who have been terminated for “poor performance” haven’t even had their first performance appraisal, had a highly rated performance appraisal, and/or didn’t have any documented performance issues or a performance improvement plan implanted. Federal employees also aren’t “at will.”

Holy shit!

I'm waiting to see if I'm fired tomorrow since I'm a probationary GS-11. I run the orders writing cell for AFRC, which writes all orders (AT, MPA, RPA, PCS) for IMAs in AFRC. I have two GS-09s that work for me and are on probation as well since they just became new supervisors. Each of them supervises four GS-07s, with four of them being on probation. I also have about 10 Reservists on RPA orders that work for me as well. As of now, the DoD hasn't had any of the DOGE firing of probation employees, but I told all my employees on probation to be ready to lose their jobs tomorrow. If that happens, there won't be enough order writers to write orders for the 8,000 IMA population in AFRC since we average about 40-80 orders requests per day. I chuckle when I hear the MAGA bots say, "Well, now you can get a real job in the private sector." I left the private sector this past fall, where I made $35K more than a GS-11, for government work. A majority of the folks who work for me are veterans, retired veterans, military spouses, etc. But all of them love the work they do for reservists, and the Air Force support the DoD's mission. That's just job satisfaction you can't get a lot of the time in the private sector.

Elon and Trump are desperately trying to find ways to slash the government since they're cutting taxes to preserve those 2018-era tax cuts that largely benefit the billionaires that expire in 2025.

Which is wild since his father was a Marine. Russ is a weird (read: sack of shit) cat. Dude despises government employees, yet has only worked in the government and government-centric NGOs his entire career.

My boss in OGV ran a marathon, was in great shape, then the next week was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. I wish the VA would a different term than "disability" since not all of them are visible. A means test would be if you made a certain amount in income, regardless of the disabilities you have while in the military service, you would either be paid a reduced, or even zero, amount of compensation by the VA.