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This sounds super fake
My wife had a coworker Rif’d and is in the same situation. It is not fake, this is really happening to real people.
I know several people in this category: still employed by the government and subject to government ethics rules, unhireable by any company that still needs to follow that government agency’s rules about conflicts of interest.
Hilarious to imagine corporations respecting the sanctity of “conflict of interest” in hiring govt employees, especially in 2025. Think of the optics!
Yes, I don’t think you can be in limbo for more than the statutory 2-weeks notice period or some such.
Still, there’s going to be quite some extra cost associated with the heads-over-heels way in which contracts were cancelled.
That’s intentional. Bleed the agency to death so it can’t operate.
Probably fake, but to be fair, the government isn’t exactly following the rules these days.
It’s in line with what I’ve heard. People have been commuting to work only to find that they can’t get in.
Sounds like Trump & Musk presidency
Sadly not. Super common, and the obvious result of RIFing everyone without a care for who does what or why. Strategy was apparently on the DEI forbidden words list.
These people have zero idea how the government works, they only operate on “loyalty.” Which is simply not having the audacity to speak up when something is profoundly stupid, lest it harm their ego. Everything else is scams inside of scams for personal benefit at the taxpayer’s expense.
The pattern repeats over and over. Hundreds of embarassing court cases, constant incompetence beyond anything rank and file government ever did before, blatant lies the only way to save face. Clowns elected by fools to spin up a circus to entertain them all while the crops rot in the fields, with no one willing to harvest them.
I know a guy first hand in the same situation.
I can’t tell anymore.
You been DOGEd!
Wait, I thought dogging was something entirely different.
Legally I think a resignation is valid upon delivery. CCing the new employer on a resignation email that specifies the effective date should solve your friend’s dilemma. OTOH if he continues to accept payments it would be an acknowledgement of continued employment - which the new employer wouldn’t know about but could be used by the previous employer if there’s ever any sort of legal dispute in which his exact end date is important.
I think the move would probably be to send the letter, begin new employment, and then set aside any further payments they receive from the job they resigned from for reimbursement. On the other hand, have fun with the nightmare of returning the funds to the FDA, and also tax season and…yeah nevermind fuck that.
set aside any further payments he receives from the job he resigned from for reimbursement
In a sane world the smart thing to do would be to put it into an index fund, but of course with Herr Gröpenfuhrer in charge, chances are SPY tanks again and they’d lose the money
If people can secretly work two simultaneous full time jobs, you can work a different job while collecting the paycheck for the job you left but they won’t process the resignation for.
Apparently not if one paycheck is from the government and the other is from a company that works with the government.
Not works with the government, is regulated by said part of the government. It’s a pretty common sense regulation because of the conflict of interest when you could be both overseeing a company and working for it. Same reason presidents before the orange turd have historically placed their assets in a blind trust.
Thank you for the correction
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I TOLD you ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS were WASTING Taxpayer Dollars! But he’s WHITE and RICH so I DONT CARE! DEPORT BROWN US CITIZENS INSTEAD!
