Nick Gioia was terminated from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in February as part of President Donald Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk’s effort to slash the size and cost of the federal government.
Gioia was then reinstated and placed on paid leave after a court ruling. Now, after a second round of buyout offers were emailed in recent days to government workers in at least half a dozen federal agencies, the U.S. Army veteran decided to take it.
“For some of us, the time has come to step away before this experience completely erodes what remains of our well-being,” Gioia told Reuters.
Several other federal employees told Reuters they are taking this second buyout offer, saying that many civil servants are suffering from nervous exhaustion after three months of chaos and cuts driven by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
A close friend/former guildie of my wife’s is a very wholesome and well-accomplished person who secured her dream job with the CDC during Biden’s administration, just to have that job abolished by Trump/DOGE pretty much immediately. It was a very high-up/directoral position involving the outreach of sexual education/awareness for special needs individuals, who are often the unwilling/misunderstanding partipants of sexual abuse. Her entire department was ruled non-essential and was eliminated overnight. I guess it fucked her up pretty bad. She’s okay now, but is back to square one, searching for a suitable job.
Fuck Donald Trump and fuck DOGE.
I am a government worker who was supposed to get a promotion at the start of this year.
Not anymore after the hiring freeze!
Now my pay is stagnant and I will be losing money while working full time by the end of the year.
The really annoying part is I don’t want a new job, I want my promotion and COL adjustment, and to keep supporting the program I’m working in.
So how much longer until shit really hits the fan. I’ve noticed at work the confusion or absence of grants being talked about but nothing more. I’m not trying to deny the situation but when do we feel these absences in government?
Probably when people stop being able to afford rent en masse. Maybe if we see police commit some kind of horrible atrocity like another Kent State or George Floyd.
That’s the landscape that started the BLM riots.
