"âRight now it feels like we're being hacked from the inside,â one #tech worker told me...
I ask another how heâs doing...
âOh you know, watching an #autogolpe from the inside,â he replies. âFeeling 10 yrs of painstaking work to build up culture & credibility around #digital transformation in the #government get burned to the ground in less than 3 weeks.â
âFearing for my #job, fearing for my family's #safety,â he says."
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-federal-tech-workers-facing-down
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I ask another how heâs doingâan admittedly dumb question, but what do you say?
âOh you know, watching an autogolpe from the inside,â he replies. âFeeling ten years of painstaking work to build up culture and credibility around digital transformation in the government get burned to the ground in less than three weeks.â
âFearing for my job, fearing for my family's safety,â he says. âYou know, the usual.â
That anxiety is omnipresent.
â[Itâs] a very scary time. I'm gonna work on a private sector resume this weekend,â one junior federal tech worker told me.
That fear is being compounded by multiple factors. There is of course the DOGE directive to cut as many jobs as possibleâmost recently, WIRED reports that DOGE has attempted to lay off every single technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and are trying to push cuts through the Department of Education, the General Services Administration, and beyond. All this is leading to chaos and confusion on every level: Some employees who were told they were going to be fired have still received no official notice, workers whoâve taken the âfork in the roadâ offer of 8 months paid severance are unsure whether theyâll ever see it, and not even DOGE seems to know (or care) if what itâs doing is legal.](/proxy/post_attachment/1490592/a9b458a3a4.png "Text from article:
I ask another how heâs doingâan admittedly dumb question, but what do you say?
âOh you know, watching an autogolpe from the inside,â he replies. âFeeling ten years of painstaking work to build up culture and credibility around digital transformation in the government get burned to the ground in less than three weeks.â
âFearing for my job, fearing for my family's safety,â he says. âYou know, the usual.â
That anxiety is omnipresent.
â[Itâs] a very scary time. I'm gonna work on a private sector resume this weekend,â one junior federal tech worker told me.
That fear is being compounded by multiple factors. There is of course the DOGE directive to cut as many jobs as possibleâmost recently, WIRED reports that DOGE has attempted to lay off every single technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and are trying to push cuts through the Department of Education, the General Services Administration, and beyond. All this is leading to chaos and confusion on every level: Some employees who were told they were going to be fired have still received no official notice, workers whoâve taken the âfork in the roadâ offer of 8 months paid severance are unsure whether theyâll ever see it, and not even DOGE seems to know (or care) if what itâs doing is legal.")