8 months of pay

[89th]

I totally agree there’s a ton of bloat in the government. Mostly from folks who are impossible to fire, and the budget spending shenanigans, but there’s also hundreds of thousands of people performing very important jobs.

[LuFins Dad]

There are many people performing important jobs. It’s the people that want to be there because they think they have important jobs that need to go.

[89th]

Honestly I’m confused but ok

[jon-nyc]

@89th said in 8 months of pay:

They want lawyers to review it though.

They don’t want to be unsecured creditors of Donald J Trump???

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in 8 months of pay:

Honestly I’m confused but ok

Think of it this way, if your friends are thinking of taking the offer, I’m likely good with them staying.

[Mik]

The ones who can easily move on are the ones who will take it.

[89th]

https://chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/OPM Guidance Memo re Deferred Resignation Program 1-28-2025.pdf

[89th]

I believe that’s the mass email notice. Looks like you can get another job while getting paid to do nothing for the next 8 months. Double income!

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in 8 months of pay:

@89th said in 8 months of pay:

Honestly I’m confused but ok

Think of it this way, if your friends are thinking of taking the offer, I’m likely good with them staying.

I see. You’re saying the people who think they have an important job but don’t really have one, are the ones that should go? (Makes sense, if so)

[Jolly]

This was an Elon idea, I believe.

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in 8 months of pay:

Gotta give credit for big ideas.

No, you actually fucking don't. Some folks with Medicaid are getting screwed over as of today due to this nonsense. My wife's office had to turn people away and if this doesn't get fixed soon, my sister-in-law and her daughter are SOL.

[jon-nyc]

This seems to have no legal basis but there’s a chance the resignations will stick. I’d hold off, at least until it unfolds in court.

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly said in 8 months of pay:

This was an Elon idea, I believe.

Even the email subject line was the same. But he was offering three months.

[89th]

@Jolly said in 8 months of pay:

This was an Elon idea, I believe.

Yeah it's from his Twitter playbook. Even the email subject "fork in the road" that federal employees saw came from what he did at Twitter. Hopefully it's not all the same since Elon reneged on paying folks the severance packages they were promised. Although not paying your debts is from Trump's playbook, too.

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in 8 months of pay:

@89th said in 8 months of pay:

Gotta give credit for big ideas.

No, you actually fucking don't. Some folks with Medicaid are getting screwed over as of today due to this nonsense. My wife's office had to turn people away and if this doesn't get fixed soon, my sister-in-law and her daughter are SOL.

This is about the RTO order, not the spending freeze. But on that issue, this is sounding quite a lot like the “malicious enforcement” thing like when somebody removed the Tuskagee Airmen from the website.

I’m sure that @Jolly @George-K and @Mik will know more than me, but it’s my understanding that the Federal Government does not fund the portal on a daily or even weekly basis, the funds set aside for Medicaid are already set aside and do not count as new funding. Somebody in the government (probably somebody not considering the resignation offer) proceeded to shut down the already funded portal. The portal was restored yesterday, but is now acting buggy. It’s worth noting that the administration as well as many state officials were on the record yesterday stating that the freeze would not affect Medicaid or Head Start.

[NobodySock]

@89th said in 8 months of pay:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-offer-federal-workers-buyouts-resign-rcna189661

Read the whole thing. Crazy. You can just reply with “resign” and you get 8 months of pay and benefits.

If it were me I’d take it and then just take a contractor position. Imagine if you’re about to move or have a kid, what a lucky bonus. For some at least.

Gotta give credit for big ideas. Might not agree with them all but these are big moves we haven’t seen from presidents in a while.

sounds good but there is a hiring freeze right now but who knows for how long. my original retirement date was going to be 12/31/25 but now with this new offer, I think i can bump it up to 9/30/25. it sure sounds nice on paper but I think I will give it a few more days before I reply to my Fork in the Road email I received yesterday. The deadline as of now for decision is Feb 6.

[NobodySock]

oh just an fyi for those interested. You may have noticed that most fed employees choose the last day of a calendar year to retire. Why so? Because we are allowed to carry a maximum of 240 hours annual leave over to the next calendar year. If one had lets say 250 hours of this leave available at the end of the year, the government would simply erase 10 hours off your record. So with this in mind, one could enter their last year of work with 240 hours of leave and accumulate approximately 200 plus more hours during this last year and have over 440 hours total in retirement. This is cash money payed back to you at your current hourly rate. I am told though that there is a very harsh witholding performed on this amount to the tune of 40% which is absurd but obviously much returned back after doing taxes.

[George K]

What's the typical annual leave?

[NobodySock]

@George-K said in 8 months of pay:

What's the typical annual leave?

Not sure what you are asking

[George K]

@NobodySock said in 8 months of pay:

@George-K said in 8 months of pay:

What's the typical annual leave?

Not sure what you are asking

You said " we are allowed to carry a maximum of 240 hours annual leave."

That's 6 weeks' vacation, assuming a 40 hour week.

How much vacay is typical? I assume it varies with job title, position, etc.