Ewwwwwwww! Move out to Kansas (wherever that is. Like Wizard of Oz Kansas?) with all those hicks and rednecks and farmers and stuff! Ewwwwwww!
FIRE these asses!
Fire everyone of these eff-holes. Maybe with the department in KS they’ll employ people who know something about agriculture and not just about bureaucracy.
Guess what, Toto...
IF I had done that to my boss, I’d be out of a job in less than 10 minutes. Maybe they’re a protected species by some govt regulation or union, but they need to be GONE....either to Kansas or permanently out the door.
I hope they’re made to use cheap old furniture in cubicles barely big enough for a desk and chair in a poorly lit windowless building with poor ventilation.
Are these entrenched government workers that can’t be fired? There should be no public sector unions.
Poor babies, my heart bleeds peanut butter.
“...The employees, who opted to unionize after the announcement, were supposedly given their reassignments yesterday and now have 30 days to decide whether or not they will continue working for the department....”
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Wow, after looking at the picture at the linked site, I suspect the nation will be better off should many of them NOT decide to continue “working” for the department.
Their locality pay will be cut in half. It will decrease costs now and in the future when they retire. Facility costs will be reduced too. Good move.
Not all negative for the employees, if the have a house in the DC area, they will spend a third less buying the equivalent in Kansas.
Relocation is always a possibility when you’re a Fed. My friend’s husband is being relocated from Virginia to Huntsville, Alabama. My friend works for a different agency where there are no jobs available.
He could choose not to go, and he would be free to seek employment elsewhere. He understands it.
These folks need to grow up.
I had the same response as many of you.
If they want to stay in DC resign. I am sure that there are much more energetic people who would love their position in KC. How can they be on the pulse of the farming industry in DC? What grows in DC besides corruption?
Sonny is a nice man.
The decision to relocate the positions is made by the government. The employees then have the option to relocate or take other, often unrelated, jobs in DC provided they are available.
Hahahaha.... who cares what they did in The Swamp, they gotta leave! Buh bye Fairfax, buh bye DC, Kansas City here I come!
DRAIN. THE. SWAMP.
Ingrates. They should be made aware of the many people in Kansas waiting in line for their cushy government jobs. These people make me sick.
Send them to North Dakota for a couple of months. Kansas will look pretty good, after that.
What ever entity it is in federal gov. that over looks the automotive industry I would like to see relocated to Flint Mich.
Looks Ike's description has finally after 70 years, going to be addressed. Don't say that the government doesn't “take it's time” fixing known problems! My bet is that both of these “departments” could be totally eliminated and the only thing we'd notice is that the cost of government has gone down a minuscule amount.
Kansas is a nice state to live in. I took a one-year position here a long time ago and have stuck around for almost 20 years. We don't need those pieces of crap here, so it would be best to just fire them.