It's a s*** show': Department of Transportation scrambles to keep staff who accepted resignations

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Thursday 24 April 2025 18:03 BST


So many workers at the Department of Transportation accepted a second deferred resignation offer that officials have been forced to ask some of them to reconsider.

As part of President Donald Trump and the Elon Musk-led DOGE’s efforts to slash the federal workforce, the Transportation Department offered employees another opportunity to take a deferred resignation, for which approximately 4,700 people volunteered, according to Politico.

That number, while not final, represents roughly 9 percent of the department’s 55,000-strong workforce. About 45,000 of those work at the Federal Aviation Administration, although it is unclear how many offered to quit that particularly agency. The high number of employees volunteering to leave in exchange for pay and benefits through September has led some officials to prompt them to “reconsider” the offer, Politico reported.

“It’s a s*** show, honestly,” an unnamed department employee told Politico. “I feel for HR because this is a mess they didn’t create.” The Independent has reached out to the Transportation Department for comment. The second round buyout offer was made to make the agency more efficient and to accommodate employees who declined the first round due to confusion, an agency spokesperson told the New York Times in February.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/department-of-transportation-resignations-faa-b2738955.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I agree. Any company worth its salt would handle a reduction in staff far better than this joke of an admin. and

repugs. And they claim that they are best for business.

Yeah, right.

Pathetic as usual.

[Skittles]

2. sounds so EFFICIENT

DOGE is a fucking bad joke

[Puppyjive]

3. Sounds like social security

They had no business downsizing an already short staffed agency. None of it was well thought out. They want our federal government to collapse.

[Dan]

4. Trying to run the government like a business.

Unfortunately neither Trump nor Musk have ever run a successful business. Musk acquires existing businesses and takes ideas as his own. Trump is just a f--k up.

Government functions to provide for the common good that which the private sector won't do because there is no profit in it.

Well one thing is sure, to rebuild our government is going to require a lot of good thinking people that will build in safe guards against the next Trump and a chicken s--t GOP.