DoE: "Our case load has become too much to handle. We need you to come back to work, but we don't want to actually give your jobs back."
The fired workers: "Go fuck yourself."
Hopefully.
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No one with a better option is coming back and waiting tables is more lucrative than teaching. If anyone comes to the departments aid it will be the dregs.
Hey, they wouldn’t fire those guys in the first place.
Or better yet ...
Fired workers: ... sure, I'll come back on one condition ..... you give me four times the rate of pay I had before ... then when your stupid backlog is taken care of .... you can go fuck yourself.
... oh you don't want to pay four times the rate? .... no problem .... go fuck yourself.
I like yours better.
Alternatively, this is the civil rights division. These people likely care about civil rights and are pissed at the people who fired them. Lot of room for adversarial behavior as employees here
Probably a pretty rough spot for those employees. I imagine their pensions, health benefits and retirement stuff hinges on the definition of administrative leave etc.
If you were one of the employees on admin leave with a sick kid dependent on that healthcare plan... How big a risk would you make your kid take for you?
“We’re firing you, but you’re ‘ordered’ back to work”
. . . for a short time. You don’t get your old job back.
Ordered
Yeah, how about No.
You don’t get to order people who don’t work for you.
You’d be surprised what a severance package can manipulate a laid off employee into doing.
They've been out since March.
Either their package was paid or why would you trust them to pay out of they haven't already.
You do when you have the legitimate monopoly on violence.
It says they are on administrative leave. So they do technically still work there is some quasi state. I assume the order would force them to come back or quit. Which is probably the point.
Damn, they need a ton of people to rubber stamp "Denied, no discrimination here!" on things.
Cause you know that's all they want them to do.
Why not stamp, "Approved"? What are they going to do, fire you?
Our entire government is run by rich idiot children.
If I was a furlough worker, I'd tell them to go to hell and I'd find me a job with a decent employer.
Ask for a year's salary upfront before you open a single case.
This admin has been on point with these headlines. They fire a shit ton and say...oh shit, we fucked up. Total incompetence
"How to moron" <---this administration
Wow, the rare double whammy of fuck ups!
I hope the government loses by default on any cases that it can't respond to in a timely manner.
HAHAHAHA Oh fuck! Jeeeeeezus fuckin’ christ in a sleeper hold, your stylist is high as fuck, McMahon. Please stop destroying the country’s education system and go back to untelevised day drinking.
As a side note, that video report is on par with Tik Tok (it’s actually not as good) and the corporate news holes have never seemed more pathetic.