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The Pentagon announced plans Friday to fire 5-8% of its civilian workforce, starting next week with layoffs of 5,400 probationary workers, a Department of Defense official said in a statement.

The initial civilian layoffs will be followed by a Department of Defense hiring freeze to analyze the military’s personnel needs in compliance with Donald Trump’s political goals, Darin Selnick, the acting under-secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said in the statement.

“We anticipate reducing the department’s civilian workforce by 5-8% to produce efficiencies and refocus the department on the president’s priorities and restoring readiness in the force,” Selnick said.

“It is simply not in the public interest to retain individuals whose contributions are not mission-critical. Taxpayers deserve to have us take a thorough look at our workforce top-to-bottom to see where we can eliminate redundancies.”

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Unemployment numbers are going to be huge. I wonder how this will eventually compare to the Great Depression.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

They won’t report them. Or more likely, just make them up.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago

Taxpayers deserve to have us take a thorough look at our workforce top-to-bottom to see where we can eliminate redundancies.

Great! I think there are some job titles that are obviously inefficient or redundant. We should fire everyone whose title is:

  1. Acting. We don't need actors; we need committed employees!
  2. Under-secretary. If we have a secretary, we don't need a redundant one!
  3. Any title involving the name of a meme coin. We already have the USD; that's good enough!
  4. Whatever title Elon Musk has. His entire existence is inefficient and redundant.