The Department of Transport is panicking after experiencing a much higher amount of voluntary resignations than expected.

The Department of Transport is scrambling to retain its staff after thousands volunteered to resign.

About 4,700 people applied for a second resignation offer, amounting to around 9% of the agency’s total workforce.

The vast majority of offers are said to come from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Employees facing resignation have been forced to attend a series of “career transition” workshops, described as “insulting.”

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    I don’t understand how Trump is firing so many people and still spending a lot more money than previous presidents?

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      Increases in defense spending and increases in tax cuts for the rich (which isn’t really spending more, but reduces government revenue which thereby increases budget deficits.

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        It wasn’t about cutting spending, DOGE has three objectives:

        • seize control over our institutions
        • collect data that could be used to blackmail people
        • cut pesky investigations that were bothering elon
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      Increases in other contracts that funnel tax money into oligarc pockets but provide no value to tax payers, decrease in revenue collected to offset expenses due to IRS cuts and tax code changes, and the other big one is from judicial fund settlements that have already surpassed pre trump levels.

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    Career Transition workshops after you resign… Lol capitalist are some of the dumbest people. You don’t want people that already resigned to actually leave, but don’t improve working condition and pay. Just a few meetings about how shitty the job market is and how leaving would turn your old job into hell on earth. My two we resignation would quickly become two weeks of doing fuck all but work.

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    One example given by the employee included an announcement by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy that workers needed to obey a dress code.

    “why are people leaving?!” /s

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    Employees facing resignation have been forced to attend a series of “career transition” workshops, described as “insulting.”

    I would immediately look into how the contract was awarded for those workshops. I’ll bet Elon gave them to a friend in a no-bid fashion, at a grossly inflated price. Efficiency!