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Summary

Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has reportedly hired a 21-year-old senior advisor and a freshly graduated high schooler, showing the administration’s unconventional hiring approach.

Many new appointees have ties to Elon Musk, including OPM’s chief of staff Amanda Scales, formerly of xAI.

The administration is restructuring government staffing, influenced by Musk’s cost-cutting model.

A White House memo, echoing Musk’s 2022 Twitter overhaul, offers buyouts to employees unwilling to meet new performance standards.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

High schooler? Somebody is fucking

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

TBH it's much harder to find brainwashed ideologues over 30. That's the whole point of maga/fash youth.

[–] Bakkoda 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Easy to do and depending on when that photo was taken, they were clueless about the British and American bomber formations heading their way.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago

Well of course, they HAVE to give their girlfriends jobs after a few years of dating, after all!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Shit is a FUKING FARCE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Is the high schooler making minimum wage?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Welcome to the kakistocracy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

Kakistocracy is kinda the best case scenario for the next 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

I learned a new word today

government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

Didn’t Earn It

[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Wired did not name the two individuals out of sensitivity to their ages.

I'm sorry, what? These are people who are going to be significantly affecting OPM activities and procedure. They work for taxpayers and are adults. What journalistic rule overrules the public interest in knowing who they are?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

Think of the children /s

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Not to mention leaders of public services are listed everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

More incompetent people put into power to serve the whims of trump

[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unconventional hiring approach? Give me a break -- these are clearly award positions for loyalists, kickbacks to their friends and relatives. Merit is out the window.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Sanewashing, everything, all the time.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Where's Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?

[–] skulblaka 3 points 12 hours ago

Spinning in his grave fast enough to power the entire country with some to spare

[–] Gullible 92 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why I fear DEI: my kids won’t be able to skate by on my reputation and connections while brown people and vagina persons exhibit talent

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well all Americans are now female so a name had to be chosen for all the vagina peoples.

[–] vaultdweller013 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought that was a reserved slur for folks from the Virginia's.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mountain mama, indeed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

The penisly impaired

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Elon’s work force reduction method is simple. Force everyone to return to office full time; increase hours and responsibilities with no corresponding increase in pay; and offer severance packages to employees who won’t put up with this treatment, then don’t actually pay them.

I hope the governments workers’ union is strong and has some teeth. They’re going to need it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Very similar to the corporate play book.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it is really fucked because most people vote no for this type of bull shit in 2012. No one wanted a Mitt Romney style corporate divide and sell off style of "government". But fuck here we are

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

The best part? The conservative propaganda machine made them all believe that the corporate pillaging wouldn't happen, and they would be taken care of, despite all available evidence to the contrary.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Precisely the only two idiotic types of people who would go along with his Nazi plans.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How the hell are you going to call yourself a senior advisor at 21 years old?

Also, who the hell is going to listen to that advice?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

It's because he advises the senior citizen in charge

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Hands new hires a bike pump

"Time to inflate those titles!"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Either they're related to someone who cozied up. Or the goal is to hire young, naive people to maximize the chances they don't fully understand the fucking evil they're going to be asked to inflict.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

No it's 100% nepotism. In the article it says they worked close to, or for musk.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Man being a 20 year old with a degree and certifications and still not finding a job related to that stuff, and then I have to see this. I really do wanna leave this bs ass country now. Fts

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"performance standards". Yeah. Sure.

[–] phdepressed 4 points 1 day ago

"Loyal to Trump above all else"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I feel bad for those young people getting sucked into something that will likely end badly for them.

[–] ayyy 2 points 12 hours ago

They are old enough to know what a Nazi is.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have zero sympathy. You have to live in a cave to not know enough about this administration to make an informed decision, even at 18.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

If they are that stupid they deserve to learn the hard way.

[–] greenshirtdenimjeans 5 points 1 day ago

Merit based hires, I see no issue

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