Normally I would say mass exit with a big middle finger to the voters is the way to go here, but these guys could probably keep their jobs and the status quo by gaslighting that dumb son of a bitch.
If you want to see what resigning out of protest or fear from far right extremists leads to…
Look up the KKK’s role in ending reconstruction, and what happened to the American South when anyone who wasn’t racist was afraid to vote let alone hold position in government.
Giving up is rarely the right move, and federal employees have one of the strongest unions in America and it’s comically hard to be fired unless you’re a political appointee.
And that is entirely intentional and for this exact scenario.
Resigning just makes it easier for them for no reason. It concentrates the shitty employees who will go along with anything, and it shrinks the federal government when they don’t try to restaff
it’s comically hard to be fired unless you’re a political appointee.
Didn’t they change the rules to count many more jobs as political appointees without protections right at the end of Trump’s term, only to have Biden change it back? Trump is definitely doing that again.
That still covered the very top of departments, not entire agency workforces
Ah. I wasn’t aware of that. It still sucks, but maybe for the folks who are left and still protected by the union some malicious compliance is in order.
In this scenario malicious compliance is doing your job properly and efficiently.
I hate how every time this shit happens everyone jumps ship and just makes room for evil to backfill where possible. People stand your fucking ground and force these people out or make their lives miserable. Fight back!
Stop making it easy for them and allowing them to win at every turn!!
How is it a government employee’s responsibility to “fight back” when the voters insist on installing the worst person as their boss? This is literally what the voters chose.
If the smart career employees want to get out while they can, more power to them. It’s not their job to fight the will of millions of idiots.
So just because we lose you can’t do anything within your power about it? Way to roll over and die just because you lose an election.
Meanwhile if the same guy showed up on lemmy telling you how much their corporate job sucks and their boss is completely clueless, everyone would pile on to say they should quit.
Exactly. Imagine I’m a competent professional, just minding my own business and being good at my job, and suddenly I’m asked to become some kind of resistance hero and risk my career, my livelihood, and my family’s future. Meanwhile, all around me I see the worst people installed in power and are actively looting and destroying my organization.
I could do that, or I could jump ship and make a decent living somewhere else.
The choice is simple, for those that have that opportunity.
What, you’re not willing to traumatize (or for those of us who have already had to fight evil from an incompetent boss RELIVE our trauma) yourself for the 5 minutes of delay it’ll earn? What a coward you must be!
Once I interned in Washington DC… you start to understand the mindset there. Everyone all over the US blames DC for the dysfunction in our government. However, the opposite is true, you people sent these dysfunctional people to DC, so really it’s your fault.
Same thinking here. Most government bureaucrats are well-educated caring individuals who are really passionate about their subject area. Expecting them to tolerate a toxic workplace because the American people can’t choose competent leaders is unfair.
Why don’t you go get a job in the FDA and fight?
Look on the bright side, we’ll have so much raw data from the worst-managed possible country-sized control group. Except that they’ll probably react to attempts to document the results of their policies with book burnings and witch trials. Well, maybe we can smuggle in some camouflaged researchers or just watch the obituaries or something.
Any texas medical personnel here?
I work in pharma, regularly writing and filing things with the FDA (and other agencies), and this has been a topic of conversation at work. The good news for people is that the EMA is still a thing in the EU. So, at least the large pharma companies (like the one I work for), are likely to not really change much about their quality control/processes/etc. because we will still need to conform to the EMA guidelines which are typically in line with the current FDA (sometimes more strict, sometimes less so). The real quality concern would be smaller companies that only file for products in the US. They would only need to meet whatever new FDA guidelines come into effect (if they even do, changing stuff like GMP guidance is extremely complicated and time consuming) since the US is their only market.
