The Department of Transport is panicking after experiencing a much higher amount of voluntary resignations than expected.
The Department of Transport is scrambling to retain its staff after thousands volunteered to resign.
About 4,700 people applied for a second resignation offer, amounting to around 9% of the agency’s total workforce.
The vast majority of offers are said to come from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Employees facing resignation have been forced to attend a series of “career transition” workshops, described as “insulting.”
To answer the question you wrote:
It costs money to move or get or toss people. Doge is spending a LOT on this ‘churn’ cost with no idea whom it should fire and why it shouldn’t fire so many. Because they’re kids led by an idiot, and not much comprehension in the group.
So they pay severance and kick the people out with no transition. And planes fall out of the sky. And when they realize they fucked up, or the courts tell them how they fucked up, they need to beg people to come back. I think they do not get their severance money back.
Dotcoms trying to run a gov is just tragic comedy.
It would be prohibitively expensive to bring me back. I’d be paying taxes in the top bracket and my signing bonus would be 7 figures.