{"id":44438,"date":"2025-02-05T06:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=44438"},"modified":"2025-02-05T06:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:16:18","slug":"layoff-coming-to-the-epa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=44438","title":{"rendered":"Layoff coming to the EPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. The destruction of the Deep State is underway. The Trump Administration has already sent out a job buyout message to the Bureaucrats and now the Environmental Protection Agency is in the Trump Administration\u2019s gun sights.<\/p>\n


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Last week an email was sent out to over a thousand EPA workers were going to be let go. This has sent shock waves through the rank and file and they are now in shock. Here are some of the details from Fox Business News<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Some workers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have received a letter from the agency warning them that they may face termination amid the\u00a0Trump administration’s<\/a> efforts to scale back the government, FOX Business has learned. <\/b><\/p>\n

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The email, which was sent to\u00a01,100 EPA employees<\/a> on Wednesday according to the email reviewed by FOX Business, notifies workers that they were deemed to be on probationary status or are in a trial period as an employee and could be terminated immediately. <\/b><\/p>\n

That makes sense. It\u2019s incredibly difficult to fire a federal bureaucrat. However, those who have been on the job for less then a year probably don\u2019t have the same protections of those who have been there for years. Also, I suspect that the union is going to do the usual \u201cLast hired, first fired\u201d deal to protect the more senior union members. It also looks like that veterans and those who may have transferred in to the EPA will not be on the chopping block, for now.<\/p>\n

“As a probationary\/trial employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you pursuant to\u00a05 CFR \u00a7 315.804,” the email explained. “The process for probationary removal is that you receive a notice of termination, and your employment is ended immediately.” <\/b><\/p>\n

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This, as you might imagine, has sent the morale at the EPA right into the dumpster. Of course, those of us who have always worked in the \u201cDreaded Private Sector\u201d know that our jobs are always on the chopping block. Unlike these bureaucrats, we almost never get any warning at all. Just a call saying \u201cPack your things and get out. You\u2019re fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

The union that represents all these workers isn\u2019t happy. (Don\u2019t get me started on having Civil Service protections and a Union. It should be one of the other, not both) Here are those details from one of America\u2019s sources of Fake News, CBS News<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Marie Owens-Powell, president of the union that represents more than 8,500 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>, did not mince words during a Friday call about morale among its members: “It’s bad. I’ve been with the agency for over 33 years and I’ve never seen anything like this.” <\/b><\/p>\n

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According to Owens-Powell, employees with a range of experience received the emails \u2014 some with less than a year at the EPA, as well as tenured employees who recently moved into new positions inside the agency. <\/b><\/p>\n

“As far as we can tell, EPA workers were the only ones to receive a notice from their agency, intended to go to probationary employees to terrorize and scare them into thinking they were on their way out,” she said. <\/b><\/p>\n

I hate to break it to you, but the EPA, along with most of Fedzilla, is on the chopping block. The EPA should have been disbanded decades ago. It\u2019s original job was to manage the clean up of all the superfund sites. That has been pretty much accomplished, however, instead of going away, the EPA has been on a major power grab.<\/p>\n

Owens-Powell says she was on a national call with other union leaders who represent workers at various government agencies, and no one else said their probationary employees received such an email. <\/b><\/p>\n

“Every day, folks are afraid to turn their computers on,” said Owens-Powell, “They don’t know what message will be coming out next.” <\/b><\/p>\n

Allow me to provide the answer for you.<\/p>\n