"Reorganization".

Often a sympathetic (powerful) Senator can step in and halt it but apparently they had no such among the Senate GOP cowards.

if this idiot does not know how i'm sure human relations can help.

moving agencies to places where they may be more effective is the right thing to do. moving agencies in order to uproot employees and prompt them to quit is stupid and counterproductive.

think it is very difficult to fire anyone, or it was back in the day. A person had to do something really egregious to get the ax.

and yrs, you have to do something wrong (and documented by management) to be fired, but why would you want to fire anyone else?

a federal agency to eliminate many workers all at once with a "reduction in force."
https://ask.fedweek.com/federal-government-policies/reduction-in-force/
"When an agency conducts a significant job reduction, it must use formal reduction in force procedures published by the Office of Personnel Management. These rules create four standards for determining which employees are released, and which are retained, either in their current positions or in another position:

tenure of employment (such as type of appointment);veterans preference;length of service; andperformance ratings.

An agency is required to use the RIF procedures when an employee is faced with separation or downgrading for a reason such as reorganization, lack of work, shortage of funds, insufficient personnel ceiling, or the exercise of certain reemployment or restoration rights. A furlough of more than 30 calendar days, or of more than 22 discontinuous work days, is also a RIF action. (A furlough of 30 or fewer calendar days, or of 22 or fewer discontinuous work days, is an adverse action.)

The agency has the responsibility to decide whether a RIF is necessary, when it will take place, and what positions are abolished. However, the abolishment of a position does not always require the use of RIF procedures. The agency may reassign an employee without regard to RIF procedures to a vacant position at the same grade or pay, regardless of where the position is located."...(more)

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Check out what happened to the old Berry Co that did the phone books following their takeover by Carlson Marketing employees in Dayton OH. There was a big meeting at the Victory Theater explaining how employees could indicate interest in relocation along with HQ to Minneapolis - then all but a handful of executive types made the move - nope, not taking anybody else and a wholesale layoff ensued for the rest.

Of course, there's this:

At the local level, county appointees are sacked in "closed" county commissioner hearings to "discuss personnel" and the targeted appointee denied due process of attendance nor allowed legal representation for/at same...no access to - or need of fault documentation either and one's salary is at the mercy of TPTB - Poof - you're gone! Could it have been because when one is told to go to State Civil Service Board hearing to can a staff worker responsible for tweaking the experimental PROMIS prosecutor system of Fed-stolen software....hmmmm... Auld Lang Syne water over the dam...lots of crazy stuff going on in late '80s (Reagan era) when small intelligence groups do an "end-around" Presidential policies and find creative solutions to funding it - Just sayin'

Adding links: https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/

between the following two entities:

Acting Office of Personnel Management - Margaret Weichert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Weichert

United States Merit Systems Protection Board

Vacant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Merit_Systems_Protection_Board

is not new. The only reason it was never done before was,the Political Price that will be paid down the road.

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They would move across the state, where no one would really drive 90 minutes, or they would move out of the city to a rural setting that was impossible to commute to. Those few who followed were eventually let go, many after paying and performing a relocation--stranding them in a new town away from family or any other jobs.

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all their care about is what's theirs.. and what they can STEAL from the US Government.

For example, former GOP AGs here in CA dismantled environmental enforcement in CA by restructuring the CA AG office to eviscerate the Natural Resources/Environmental Law section, moving attorneys to do other work. Fortunately for CA, those GOP officials were replaced with Dem officials, who reestablished things, and CA has kept it that way, much to the benefit of CA environmental quality.

1. Someone is draining it.

2. It's overflowing.

An old saying I remember from many years ago. Was meant in jest, of course (I think).

was principally used to incentivize long-standing underperforming employees to leave federal service. In my 35 year career, I saw it used rarely and there was typically a long or particularly egregious history behind the circumstance. It was used for “problem” employees. Mulvaney, tRump have simply applied the method at a different scale (en masse) and to a different definition of “problem employee”, I.e., smart, well-informed, capable, professional career civil servants who have risen to influential positions based on those traits, past performance, hard work and non-partisan dedication to executing federal law and regulations that have emanated from those laws. That is also how they tRump et al) define “swamp”.

They take credit for creative new efficiencies when in fact all they’ve done is what flim-flammers have always done — taken advantage of norms in twisted, sociopathic ways for greedy purpose.

I had an assignment at USDA. They decided to uproot hundreds of employees to Albuquerque. People who had never known anything but DC and surrounding area. People whose friends and family were there. Many transferred out. Some moved and actually liked it. They were able to afford virtual mansions compared to DC.

If there are 181 slots and only 16 workers, they get to hire the new ones. If the decision makers are on board with the current regime, then their hiring actions will likely pick similarly inclined folks.

They can't be overt, but not hard to cull the potential "trouble makers".

Also, consider the loss of expertise in focused areas.

Snyder. It was recommended by Rachael Maddow recently. Chapter 2 is Defend Institutions...Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the begining. It seems obvious to me the Dotard dumpster in the office is using these lessons to destroy our government from within. When will our national nightmare end.

they'll just say you have to report to Kansas tomorrow, call someone there to find out the address. Then you have to negotiate that it might take you 2 days to pack up your apartment, pay lease breakage, cancel your utilities, and drive halfway across the country. They'll act like you're entitled and spoiled as they let you use 2 vacation days or unpaid leave to move to Kansas and find a new apartment. You'll pay for all that yourself.

That's the bad companies who have federal contracts for low level low wage work that doesn't require US citizenship so they use visa and green card workers who don't have as many options. US citizens generally react much the same way the DUers on this thread are reacting to such a predatory abuse of workers. I speak from experience of what is literally the "dark side" of the American economy, where everyone working there is brown or an immigrant.

While it is probably a blatant way to force out economists from USDA (who tend to be liberal). The DC area would have economist jobs at other agencies, companies, universities, policy research organizations, etc. Kansas would have fewer economist jobs. Some economists might like to stay with USDA and move to Kansas where cost of living is cheaper but others would prefer to stay in DC where there are more jobs available for economists.

The Trump administration doesn't value economists because their research and findings often show that Trump's policies are doing the opposite of what he claims.