Federal Worker Says Queer And Trans Employees' Lives Are Being Threatened Because Of DOGE

Posted • February 9, 2025: We've really been enjoying posting about the firings from the federal government and the complaints from federal employees who are being asked if what they do is essential to the government's functioning. We've heard horror stories of employees being given a 15-minute window to justify their employment to DOGE staffers — staffers who are as young as 19. Here's a video of a federal employee telling the story of Elon Musk entering his agency and setting up camp. Supervisors are filling out justification forms in preparation for a 30 percent "rank and yank" of all staff. Curiously, he claims that the members of DOGE, who've been doxxed, that queer and transgender employees have been doxxed and their lives threatened. We're not sure how he got there, but that's what he says.

Government worker says 19-year-old DOGE employees are having 15 minute interviews with federal employees to “justify their existence” before determining if they should be fired. Lmao, good. An unnamed federal worker spoke out at a town hall event in Virginia. “I just wanted to share some things that are going on at my agency… [Musk] visited the building called for a 50% cut of the entire agency.” - “My colleagues are getting 15 minute one-on-one check-ins with 19, 20 and 21-year-old college graduates asking to justify their existence.” -- I shouldn't take 15 minutes to explain why your job is essential to the agency. What is it you say you actually do here? This is how the world works. Many shouldn’t have been hired in the first place. They shouldn’t be mad! Many were on borrowed time. Government employees finally being asked to justify their existence? Long overdue. No more taxpayer-funded naps! (…)

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