Problem is you have a skill, and an education in demand. A bunch of pencil pushing feds who do nothing but suck up money don't. They know they'll never find another job with this pay and benefits, with such little actual work.
Only reason that happens is because the feds show up with a dozen or more guys, and most Americans still believe in the inherent good of the system. Look at Ruby ridge, or Waco. When enough people say no, it becomes a gun battle.
You don't have to be a lawyer to be a judge, the remedy is for congress to remove bad judges via impeachment.
To be honest, hearing all kinds of crap from everywhere, and even if I'm mostly to the right, I wouldn't want to just eat up anything they say unless I can double-check it. Not because I think they're framing it wrong on purpose, but everyone has their biases when playing for their team.
The remedy for them is the same as the remedy for the president: impeachment and removal by congress.
@Otterly Its only a fantastic deal in the private sector where job hopping from company to company is fairly standard (and why its never been offered in the private sector). In the Federal sector your kind of in it for life since almost every Fed position is a lifetime career position where you learn almost esoteric knowledge on Federal bureaucracy that isn't used practically anywhere else.
This might be a weird thing to get autistic about, but I think this person in particular might be the kind of well-meaning but naïve worker who never makes it to the upper ranks, but spends her career being the "good worker". I can't find her name so I can't confirm for sure, but she and her husband have little signs in this picture of "I need comfort." with the chair and pet bed being the most obvious examples.
Some people need comfort because they have strained themselves to the limit doing difficult and uncomfortable things. Other people need comfort because they have so insulated themselves from the real world that any irritant, no matter how slight, causes a meltdown. Some people have even cultivated their lives so a lack of proactive outside comforting is perceived as an unbearable hardship.
Sorry for the legal sperging, Judges do have the power to enjoin (ie prevent) the program if it violates a law, but the unions have had difficulty articulating what law is being violated. Someone here pointed out rules on limits for admin leave and such, but none of that would prevent the administration from approving exceptions to it if they wanted to. It’s also not clear that the unions that brought the Massachusetts case have standing to challenge it, they did not claim that their organizations were harmed in some way. Most of their complaint is just non-legal complaining, but they seem to be arguing that the government doesn’t have the power to pay people not to work for an extended period. That is wonky from a standing perspective, people can’t just bring a case saying the government exceeded its power without an injury in some way (or a statute that gives standing). To try and articulate an injury, they complained that the deadline to make the decision was too short, causing stress.
Which branch of government do these people think they work for? I keep seeing these assertions that Trump is destroying checks and balances, and thinking, 'He's your boss, bish.' It's not like he's trimming the judiciary or cutting congressional staff. They're in the executive branch, there to support the executive. It's like they view themselves as the government and the elected officials are just window dressing there to support them.
... if only someone had warned them.
What's strange is that if your in certain departments, on admin leave and or on probationary employment that there were bright neon signs tattooed to your eyeballs that your ass was getting launched out the plane first. Why the fuck wouldn't you take the severance deal????
Because they think it’s a fight they can win.
