Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“A few days ago, a federal employee told me about an email they received from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the executive branch’s HR department, that looked suspiciously like a phishing scam, a high-priority flag within the government, especially since the recent hack of the Treasury Department. The email was deemed a test of a ‘new distribution and response list,’ to see if messages could be sent to every federal employee, and if they could respond as well. … it was unclear what the purpose of the technology was. Now we know: to set the stage for federal workers to receive an offer to quit.” [editor’s note: And if enough do quit (with 8 months severance pay), a year from now the federal bureaucracy is that much smaller, and less powerful – SAT] (01/29/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-01-29-elon-musk-offers-federal-workers-unauthorized-buyout/