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Those seeking a job in the federal government will now have to write an essay in support of Donald Trump’s executive orders, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.
Vince Haley, the White House’s head of domestic policy, wrote in the May 29 memorandum that all civil service applicants must answer a series of essays as part of the job recruitment process, including one about how they would “help advance” Trump’s policy priorities.
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This is a good use case for gpt, plus it will make shit up to praise dear leader so you don’t have to.
How very North Korea of them.
Also fuck off with that you thin-skinned nitwit. If you need to be praised constantly, you are beyond fookin pathetic.
It’s fucking.
No “if” about it. This has motivated him his entire life.
Softest president of all time.
He’s not a president, he is a dictator. This is the shit that dictators pull.
It’s all so cringey.
Newsweek is garbage clickbait. Just like Reddit, people keep posting “news” from a news source that is barely reliable. Please consider to stop posting Newsweek links and use a different source, thank you.
i remember when newsweek actually used to be credible. its disgusting how many news sources have been ruined.
Lololololololololol, did they not write that memorandum?
I’ve applied for several jobs with the federal government on USAJobs over the years. Several have required an essay, but it’s always been dippy work-related questions like “What do you consider essential in an employee or colleague?” and stuff like that. I have NEVER seen an essay question that was related to the current administration at the time, or anything political at all. This is very fucked up, and not surprising coming from TACO Don at all.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
And even now, the media and the token “opposition party” refuse to call it what it is.
FASCISM
Honestly, this behavior sounds more a cult than fascism.
Depending on your definition of cult, fascism either IS one or at the very least has a lot of overlap, as per Umberto Eco’s 14 common features of fascism
TIL. Thanks!
Now there’s a job to hand over to AI if ever there was one
So we will continue to have everything done by contractors then. Cool.
That’s probably the point, push everything to contractors, pay less, and offload the health insurance, etc to the contract companies, and maybe even push it all private, then profit. What could go wrong?
Having been a contractor, we aren’t always cheaper, but I guess that depends on the industry. I know I was making more than my civilian bosses in IT, but the janitorial service was also contracted out, and I saw a great guy (incidentally, possibly not a legal worker but it’s not my business) lose his job because another contractor was cheaper. I wasn’t so easy to replace. Having sat in on several interviews, I can attest to that.
I guess that raises the question of whether contractors will be able to remain cheaper without “illegal” labor.
Contractors (in government or not) aren’t cheaper in the “per hour” rate than FTEs (Full Time Employee). Contractors are usually more expensive. However, they’re cheaper overall because you can release a contract at the end of the work, or at any time, without employment protection repercussions. You don’t have to pay them when there’s no work (or not enough). If the only work you have is lower skilled, you can release your expensive high skilled contractor, and pay less for a lower skilled contractor to do the work you have right now. You also generally don’t have to pay to train contractors, which FTEs are expensive to train. You hire a contractor that already has the skills you want.
There’s also no such thing as a Performance Improvement Plan with a contractor that you would have to go through with an underperforming FTE. Firing an FTE is time consuming, carries legal liability, and is expensive to have them underperform until you’ve built up your case for firing. Even then you may have to pay out severance or accrued PTO. If the contractor is underperforming, you call the agency you’re getting the contractor though, and you have a different contractor in very short order. You don’t even have to “fire” the contractor, their agency will call them up and tell them they’ve been released from the contract.
As a skilled contractor on the plus side, if you’re skills are in high demand, you can charge egregiously high rates and you’ll get the work and be paid handsomely. If the organization had instead cultivated their FTEs and trained them themselves, they would likely be able to get the work done for less money with their own trained FTEs. Further, after the work is done, their trained FTEs would be much better at maintaining the new work, while the org that just got contractors to do it may struggle to keep it running after the contractors are gone.
This is what is attractive to organizations to use contractors. Source: am in contracting
Right, but there’s a lot of extra stuff they have to pay for when you are their employee, health insurance, life insurance, 401k contributions, HR paperwork, im sure im forgetting stuff. There’s a reason that 90% of NASA personnel are already contractors, even tho they work at NASA centers on NASA stuff. That’s where im at, as a contractor. Its weird stuff, but it must work financially or they wouldn’t do it. Also easier to fire non-government workers (or at least it used to be).
It’s more about them having no protections. We pay the contract company more than twice the salary of the employee, some of its profit but a lot of that is benefits that the contract company offers.
They save a good chuck on forcing the individuals to pay their own payroll taxes as well. I’m a contractor, my taxes are ridiculous.
You would think, but they stopped paying contracts too. Even awarded defense contracts have gone unpaid
Not paying for work already done sounds on brand.
That’s not how contractors necessarily work. What often happens is the contract goes to the lowest bidder, but it’s still more than it would take to pay a direct hire. The person doing the job is probably paid less, but the shareholders pocket the difference between what they bid and what they’ll pay their employees. They’re basically the landlords of labor.
Totally normal presidential behavior.
Couldn’t you write your essay tearing down the trump administration, not get the job, then immediately have standing to sue the government for 1st Amendment violation?
You’d have to prove you weren’t hired due to your views, and while they are morons, they’re probably not dumb enough to outright say that’s the reason they didn’t hire you. They’ll find something else on which to base their decision
Anyone that applies to be a Federal employee, at this point, probably had an essay ready to go.
Unenforceable, not possible through executive order.
