DOGE saw a 250lb body builder and said "Lose some weight, fatso!"
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@joyjoy @MicroWave As an aside, I knew a bodybuilder some years ago, totally jacked, like 3% body fat, all natural. Couldn’t get a life insurance policy because his BMI was something like 39% and he was classified as morbidly obese.
I know this is a funny jab at BMI, which is an extremely flawed way of determining anything, but actually the risks of being a competitive bodybuilder with single digit body fat percentage are remarkably similar to being morbidly obese. Being natty certainly makes it safer but being jacked and being healthy aren't the same thing. The people you see on stage at bodybuilding comps are a short step away from needing admittance to hospital.
Particularly on stage, or leading up to a competition.
I had a natty buddy too. Had to lock himself out of the house and sleep in a tent so he wouldn't cave and eat in the middle of the night. Then same with water to get the paper thin skin and vascularity.
They are starving and dehydrated.
Yep. To paraphrase the wise words of Casually Explained:
Adrenaline junkies like skydivers often say something like "I love it so much I'd die for my sport". In contrast, with bodybuilding dying is the sport.
By June, Congress was drawn, largely down party lines, on whether to codify the “DOGE process”—rapidly firing employees, then quickly hiring back whoever was needed
To consider this as an intentional "process" a person has to have zero empathy.
I've seen it first hand. I work as a consultant in public sector. Every where we go now the teams are crippled because people took the buyouts and left. Network teams that were 7 people reduced to 2 that are barely keeping things together. I'm sure NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, etc... love selling all these consulting hours now.
I'd bet some of those ex government employees are back doing the same job as IBM contractors for 3x the cost.
Yep, exactly. That's DOGE efficiency.
I was at a military industry conference a month or so ago, with several flag level officers giving talks. The total amount of lost years of experience and senior leadership in the military and intelligence agencies is staggering. It is going to take generations to recover.
Duh it was nothing but a cover for the grift of billions of dollars.
A grift of access to confidential government data. Data is the new gold.
the stupid thing is, dumpy mcshitpants has increased the national debt by $2T in less than a year. they haven't saved shit.
DOGE couldn't have possibly worked, ever. I think everybody knows a situation where there's an employee who is contributing far more than their own manager knows. So the point is that even if you asked everybody's immediate managers to decide who to lay off, you'd have huge mistakes being made.
A central bureaucracy like DOGE is so much farther removed from that situation that it's not even funny. There is simply no way that it has the expertise to conduct layoffs, and it was obvious from the beginning. Companies facing layoffs know that they will lose unreplaceable employees, but they have to do so due to immediate financial pressures, nothing like what the government faces.
So, DOGE was either a stupid idea created by absolute morons, or it was a cover for bad actors who never intended to do what they claimed. Or a little from column a, and a little from column b.
Also, the methodology was awful. Offer buyouts for people to leave. That means the people who are the best at their job and most confident in finding a new job left.
Musk for prison 2026!
Were they hired back at the same pay rate?
I don't see anything in the article, or did miss it?
I hope they fucking held out for more… But I’m sure it will not be as awesome as that
If they didn't demand a higher salary then they did something wrong.
Musk is a Nazi & should be deported.
It'll be a good day when seal team six is bin laden-ing this mangled cock ass hat.
Efficiency-obsessed weirdos don't understand redundancies. All they see are inefficiencies, and think people can just make up for them in harder times by just "working harder", which for these weirdos just become a new baseline for even more cuts.
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