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Spectre of autism. I have a reputation for being very boring.

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@casstone.bsky.social · last wk.

Sometimes I do wonder how well it comes across that me joking on about how nothing good has ever happened to me is making the best of a bad situation. Why nothing good ever happens to me is an aspect of my disability between me and my doctors, but people sure find it difficult to believe that.

RS Benedict@rsbenedict.bsky.social · 9mo ago

sweet jesus but I suspect Musk and his DOGE boys are so dumb they think a probationary employee means 'employee punished for misdeeds' like the way convicted criminals get probation, and not 'employee hired less than a year ago' ie talented younger new people, who are pretty fucking important in IT

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm doing research on Direct File at the moment, and DOGE people at IRS did not understand that they were firing the best tech talent *because all of those were probationary.* We still don't have a good number of how many people were purged and under what conditions. Fells like we should know that.

) How many people work at the IRS? A seemingly straightforward question, but the answer is far from obvious. Like other agencies, the IRS saw its staffing slashed this year, via processes so chaotic and disrespectful that thousands of skilled and dedicated employees fled the agency. IRS employees mostly have been pushed out through multiple interlocking strategies: the attempted firing of “probationary employees” (~7,000 employees); deferred resignations, voluntary early retirements and buyouts (~22,000 employees); and finally, attempted layoffs known as Reductions in Force (~1,700 employees, mostly during the shutdown). Another 3,000 employees left the agency this year outside of these pathways.