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SickOfTheOnePct

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21. I took the Fork in the Road (DRP)...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #20)

Tue Jul 15, 2025, 09:35 AM

Jul 2025

...being paid through September 30, then begin my federal retirement begins. Definitely unconventional, and yet by continuing to pay us through September 30, and with no new appropriations needed to fund it, they stayed within the bounds of the law.

The probationary firings were definitely more questionable from a legal standpoint, since performance is supposed to factored in, and I think that in many, if not most cases, it wasn't.

The layoffs that are going on now, in my mind, are completely illegal.

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