this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
325 points (94.5% liked)

Comic Strips

14251 readers
3970 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Waking up to a military helicopter colliding with a passenger plane today made me think. Wow. Could this be an effect of throwing our whole national system into chaos with all sorts of firings, defunding, pushing out of personelle, dropping of infrastructure, etc?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago (13 children)

The idiots in charge now want the federal employees that they hate to investigate this crash. The ones they just threatened with termination.

Why people voted for this shit is beyond me.

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

They sent out an email trying to trick federal employees into resigning over email. And they sent it out to people who are in charge of all of the technical things going on. Needless to say the vast majority just ignored it.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

I'd like to see that email, any chance you've got it quick at hand?

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately, much as I would like to put it out there, posting that email online isn't something I'm comfortable doing with everything going on and how up in the air things are currently. I can say that if you search online you might be able to find it, and if not a full version of it you can kinda get a good idea of what it is. It basically says if you reply resign to the email you will be put on a deferred resignation and be able to still gain pay for like 8 months or something of that nature. Needless to say, not many people are doing that because it's very sketchy seeming. I wouldn't trust musk lackeys not to get that response and immediately let you go with no money. It also leaves things like retirement and other benefits up in the air. And at the end it gives a thinly veiled threat about changing employee positions to be at will and people having positions and jobs eliminated. It makes very little sense and is very legally sketchy. It also is trying to go around the very large bargaining units present in the FAA.

Edit: Sergio has posted a response that shows exactly the email and a response from one of the unions that you can take a look at.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Its funny they would try something like that in jobs where there are so many kinds of official paperwork. It completely sounds like scam email trying to get you to click a link.

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Absolutely. Honestly I think they are so used to taking over companies where they can just do whatever they want they have zero idea how much is involved with federal employees.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So sorry my friend, never meant to put you in a weird spot - I was 100% just asking for a link to a publicly posted copy. Cheers and thanks for pointing this out!!

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

No worries. I might be being over cautious, but we are in a situation that's never happened before so it's hard to tell.

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)