Does anyone else here dea with Federal agencies such as the BLM, USDA, EPA, etc.?

I deal with a couple of the ABC agencies. In the past couple of weeks they have stopped aswering phone calls and emails. I finally was abe to talk to one official who I regularly deal with today, he told me to not plan on getting much if any response "due to what's going on in DC".

I think they are trying to sabotage the new administration.

Just setting themselves up for the unemployment line....if they don't want to work they should have taken the buyout.

All emails are public record. If they are on the clock and don’t answer they get written up for poor performance based on previous times emails were answered. There are necessary people. There are leeches also. I work in government. I see it all the time.

I just talked to an old co worker today. He told me that all of the employees that were fired due to "performance" (meaning they were new, probationary employees) are NOT entitled to unemployment. He said that locally, the USFS is potentially looking at MASSIVE reorganizations with Forests combining and eliminating the Regional Office entirely.

I hope and suspect that counts as voluntarily quitting and makes them unable to receive unemployment and severance benefits. Throw the bums out.

Keith

Let’s be clear. Not all Federal workers are bums. Fire them all and watch an enormous mess follow in its wake.

I agree with trimming fat, but the approach they’re taking towards the land management agencies is a shame. If they spent two weeks monitoring each office it would be easy to see who’s useful and who’s not. There’s your fat, trim away.

I’ve worked in a handful of Forest Service offices and can name several people from each that need to be fired. I can also name several in each that should be paid double.

I very obviously didn't call all Federal workers bums. I also very obviously was specifically referring to the Federal.workers who have stopped doing their jobs as bums. The same ones referred to in the original post I responded to.

I also very obviously did not say all Federal employees should be fired.

Keith

I worked in a very high profile government agency for a lot of years. They can get rid of half the work force and never know the are gone. The bureau of land mismanagement and US forest destruction is worthless.

Yeah and Elon the elf talking about giving congress a pay raise they should have started cleaning house there. Most of the management decisions are made in Washington and sent down the line for the federal employees to carry out. They need to start at the top, right now its like they are trying to skin a ermine with a broad ax. The standards for DEI are set at the Washington level same as the hiring and firing protocol. I guess they should cut the military in half because of the way it changed over the last 20 years, thats where the big money goes im guessing a 1/3 of the budget.

Talked to two different usda offices today, both helpful and prompt

Heard from the FSA office earlier this week.

If they all closed I bet I wouldn't know it.

I bet you would, that's like saying all you need is Captain Crunch and none of the folks that actually make the cereal

Captain crunch is bad for you, and so is the government.

Well I'm guessing we'll find out soon enough

Especially the current government. But you'll find out soon enough.

LOL!

Looks to me like "47" wants to re-set America back to what made her great to begin with...Individual Freedom!

Yeah that's what it looks like.....

I'm not afraid, balance the budget whatever it takes.

We (the PEOPLE!) are just trying to return our form of government back to a Representative Republic, rather than the Bureaucracy that it has degenerated/devolved/metastasized into.

The People have spoken!