Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.
They should all go through every email exchange they had and inform every single person who received that automatic response that it was set that way without their consent.
Not that laws matter, but it’s a pretty clear violation of the Hatch Act.
Not from the US, nor a lawyer, but how is this not fraud?
If someone pretends to be you, without your consent, is that not fraud?
You can ask me to change my out of office email and threaten me with being fired if I don’t, but if you just do it anyway, how is that not fraud?
Maybe not fraudulent, since it’s not asking for money, but I see where you’re coming from. I’m not sure if there’s any recourse for the employees affected - did they lose money (for example) because of that message?
Call me when any future Democratic AG’s do anything to prosecute any of this.
I’ll be holding my breath.
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Y’all fucked. Bail now. There’s way better places to live out your days on earth .
Can you give me at least 3 countries that’ll take Americans with nothing more than a basic college degree?
Don’t even need a college degree.
Australia, Spain, UK, Portugal (they may even still be doing that super cheap buying a property thing for foreign workers they’re trying to attract in smaller towns), Finland… I assume the other countries around Finland…
Many of these places they are more concerned about filling industries regardless of your qualifications. Education and hospitality are lways in demand. I have four American friends that went to Australia and NZ for short-term visas and just decided to never leave and are PR now. No degrees, though two were former US servicemen which may have boosted their credits.
The only catch for pursuing PR is you either have to have an employer happy to sponsor you, or you are told which cities and industries need you the most. After some time for the government to know you’re not fucking them around, welcome to your new home.
Teaching English is a classic too. Especially in SK and Japan. You don’t need to know the language well as English is expected to be the natively spoken language in classrooms. Have a friend that never left China doing that and two that never left Japan. No degrees; only basics of the national languages. They obviously have become fluently bilingual over time.
There won’t be if we don’t stop this here. A coward dies a thousand deaths.
It seems like most countries are heading in the same direction with their own flavors of fascism. It’s also not that easy to get visas for decent places to live.
It’s also not that easy to get visas for decent places to live.
The American passport is incredibly strong, we get Visa On Arrival to Japan and Korea, 3 month e-visa for Vietnam, and the application is a pain in the ass, but americans get a 90 day/10 year tourist visa for China if you apply in America (but you have to be near one of the visa centers), and 60 day/10 year if you apply in Vietnam, Seoul, or Tokyo.
I can understand immigration restrictions because they’ve always been in the interest of maintaining a healthy economy that can contribute plenty toward future infrastructure. This is just the play for as long as history is recorded. As long as we’ve had borders, and walls, fences, guards… It’s common for countries to go through periods of restriction to only skilled workers, specific industries, etc. otherwise it’s working internally on itself for a period.
But when you’ve got a booming GDP, restricting visas makes as much sense as having substantial poverty among citizens. Like sovereignty and protection of those within was never on the cards, it’s just straight up fascism, as you said. You get the same idiots saying they’re the most powerful military in the world capable of destroying anything—which isn’t far from true—also saying a brown family is going to destroy the nation… Uh-huh. Sure… One of these things has to be a lie for both cannot be true.
The fascists in other countries are taking notes after seeing how easily Trump and the MAGAts are managing to get away with this bullshit.
The rest of us need to wake the fuck up and push back agaist thw faccists before it gets too late in our countries.
The problem is that for many of the nearly retired folks a job in the government was the promise of a good wage with great benefits and good retirement options. They want it gone because it forced other companies to play catch up in pay and benefits whenever the government could pay better.
It’s also not easy to walk away from a pension program when you’re so invested in it. It’s designed to make people stay long term and put in the work.
I don’t think it was designed as that at all. But like anything long-term with no protection or regulation, it will be exploited. This is as guaranteed as sunrise.
It wasn’t designed that way, but it turned into a system that forced private enterprise to play pay and benefits catch up.
Also, it was protected and had regulations, but when the people in power simply ignore those regulations it doesn’t matter. The problem here is that people have lived in relative comfort for the last 70 years and were throwing it away to remember what a history book could have taught us.
Have they tried all the boxes about it?
Most people haven’t even tried the soap box.
Yes leave GS vacancies for MAGAts to fill good plan
if you’re planning to leave the country, why not
if you’re planning to stay, do everything in your power to stop them
It’s insane how many people think if all the rational people left the government…
That will somehow fight Trump’s plan to make the government ineffective.
Fucking toddler logic, and it’s widely up voted.
No wonder shit’s so fucked.
They’re not arguing that at all. They’re saying gtfo and go to a country that isn’t batshit insane.
They’ve made no argument it’d make the government better.
Can they not make a legal claim given that their employer is putting words into their mouth in communications with the public, especially given that it’s highly politically charged wording that would damage their reputation, plus in a normal country saying such things at work like that would get you sacked.
I don’t know the legalities, but if my employer made it seem like I’d said something like that I’d demand an immediate apology, a reprimand for whomever did it, and a public redaction and apology sent to everybody that had received the fraudulent message.
That seems reasonable and fair.
First I’m 100% with you, Azure audits who set those messages and they do need to be reported.
Conspiracy time: Every furloughed employee with that message set could be considered in violation of the Hatch Act and that carries with it a possible penalty of removal from federal employment, debarment from federal employment for up to 5 years, and possibly up to a $1,000 civil penalty. I’m really hoping the plan isn’t to start firing these workers from agencies the current administration doesn’t like to begin with.
I know in my country, such a thing is illegal af and there’d be very damaging outcry from the public if a gov tried it. But this country and the ones I’ve lived in, the governments seem to understand they’re in service of the public. This is one of the reasons why governments came to exist and why they are still relevent, after all.
I wish it was as easy as just bailing. I very much want to, but I can’t afford it, and with the coming depression, I especially won’t be able to afford it.
Maybe you should try being more privileged.
Gotta hope I roll better stats next campaign damn
Yeah. Dumbfuck. You totally misallocated your startinf points.
We can guess your dump stat!
Spelling?
Yeah idk, i wasn’t actually going anywhere with that
Only gets worse the longer you leave it. Myself and many friends I have met along the way one day just did it, with nothing. Within two years, things are so much better than if they were spent in the same situation. The worse that can happen is you just go back to what you have now. So what you have now is the worse-case scenario.
Edit: Oh, I mean there’s cavets to that, obviously. Like you could get ruined. But that’s why less likely than getting ruined by a drunk driver or something. Point is, what you have control of will always end up how you imagined.
Nowhere in could get in would have my unskilled trans ass. Some of us genuinely have no choice but to sit and wait to either win or die
Who says I want to live on EARTH???
Seems to me Mars is nice and quiet.
Not only is Mars a frigid desert without enough air, at this point any Mars colony is pretty likely to be Elon Musk’s company town/fiefdom/slave plantation, which is obviously even worse.
Did you see that “just before dawn” pic? Peaceful…
Blatant partisanship instead of helping Americans. woo. 🙄😒
Traitors to the United States
What is that thumbnail? Looks like some independence day shit.
You’re only wishing the aliens would come take over.
Anal probing would be a welcome change of pace.
for some
You’re a big guy
why did you think I was questioning welcome rather then change?
May these old republican asshats never have a peaceful day for as long as they live
Hmm it’s almost like the feds need a union… … … … 👀
Should’ve blamed Martians. Worked for me that one time.
The day this pedo king strokes out will become a national holiday
I will be so happy, i don’t even know what i will do.
Pedo king is fitting.
Trump the King of the pedophilia, protector of corruption, leader of the racist white army.
So we need some sort of …red army…?
Shit is the Russian Revolution a better model for what America’s upcoming period of political violence looks like? Because the “Second Civil War” invokes ideas of a clean boundary between belligerents, akin to the North/South. But it’s obvious that it won’t be like that this time, and until now I hadn’t considered Russia as a better example.
I doubt it will change much, the rest of the party is still in tact. They’ll just move Vance to to king dipshit and continue as they were.
Is he really capable of leading the party he’s always struck me as the sort of person that would get out of depth in a slightly melted ice cube. Trump gets away with it because he just says it all does something ridiculous and then the story moves on to that. Vance doesn’t really command the kind of following they need.
Are any of them capable of leading the party?
It will definitely be a big baby step
The Cheeto is definitely a cult of personality, and I suspect it will be harder to rally all conservatives behind his replacement. Cult leaders dying can solidify a cult if done correctly (Scientology), but it’s also quite likely that it dissolves.
Definitely the sign of a healthy democracy right there.
Who could have guessed, the prettiest, cry baby bitch would turn this shutdown where “he” has complete control over the US government into a petty game of the buck stops at the dems. Shocked I tell you shocked
Total weaponization of EVERYTHING against the left, even using right wing shooters against the left.
This is illegal and two things will be done about it. Jack and shit
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