Department of Government Efficiency - DOGE

[lawgator1]

You've never been terminated from a large firm or Fortune 500 company, have you?

My SiL was let go from her Treasury job at Bridgeston/Firestone. Security was waiting in the hall for her to leave the boss's office. Escorted to desk. Removed all personal items. Took her badge, key card, and escorted her to the exit door.

Was she told before this by the POTUS and his sidekick that she was a worthless piece of crap, who added nothing of value, and a barnacle on the USS Budget?

 

[DinkinFlicka]

You've never been terminated from a large firm or Fortune 500 company, have you?

My SiL was let go from her Treasury job at Bridgeston/Firestone. Security was waiting in the hall for her to leave the boss's office. Escorted to desk. Removed all personal items. Took her badge, key card, and escorted her to the exit door.

I've never been termed in an office environment but even I knew about the usual procedure.

In studying comp science/IT/Cybersec, it makes total sense. An insider threat can do a lot with a few simple keystrokes. It all boils down to asset protection.

First of two firings I had was straightforward. Made sense. Wasn't torn up. Second one was a fistfight because something personal was involved with the boss.

 

[Orange_Crush]

You've never been terminated from a large firm or Fortune 500 company, have you?

My SiL was let go from her Treasury job at Bridgeston/Firestone. Security was waiting in the hall for her to leave the boss's office. Escorted to desk. Removed all personal items. Took her badge, key card, and escorted her to the exit door.

I'll guarantee her system access was revoked by the time she got to her boss's office as well.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

On one hand, I can probably see @lawgator1's side of relaxed and "counseling" them out if it's a small office with a lot of trust. But on the other side of the coin, I suspect he has a lot of important, very confidential client information laying around. If he plays it all casual, misjudges, and an employee he's getting rid of gets angry... That could be a very hurtful misjudgment.

All I know is that LG is a good boy and has never been canned.

 

[BeardedVol]

Your opinion is way to jaded with hatred of anything not leftist.

Just go away.

Lol my opinion has been shaped by having 4 Starlink terminals, and half a dozen Verizon mifis, for use by my department members.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

I'll guarantee her system access was revoked by the time she got to her boss's office as well.

Without a doubt. It had to be done in a specific window because privilege revocation is quickly noticed for an active end user.

 

[McDad]

Was she told before this by the POTUS and his sidekick that she was a worthless piece of crap, who added nothing of value, and a barnacle on the USS Budget?

She's an attorney????

 

[Orange_Crush]

Lol my opinion has been shaped by having 4 Starlink terminals, and half a dozen Verizon mifis, for use by my department members.

The way Elon rolled it out and took money for years (?) promising vaporware, you couldn't pay me to take one.

 

[McDad]

I've never been termed in an office environment but even I knew about the usual procedure.

In studying comp science/IT/Cybersec, it makes total sense. An insider threat can do a lot with a few simple keystrokes. It all boils down to asset protection.

First of two firings I had was straightforward. Made sense. Wasn't torn up. Second one was a fistfight because something personal was involved with the boss.

a fistfight on the way out the door.

That's going out in a blaze of glory.

 

[Orange_Crush]

a fistfight on the way out the door.

That's going out in a blaze of glory.

It's also a reason folks generally get a brief conversation, and then escorted out by security. lol

(I'll add that another reason is the emotional toll it often takes on the firing manager and the coworkers. It's often not easy for them either. Procedure is to keep it short and as unemotional as possible.)

 

[lawgator1]

She's an attorney????

 

[McDad]

It's also a reason folks generally get a brief conversation, and then escorted out by security. lol

(I'll add that another reason is the emotional toll it often takes on the firing manager and the coworkers. It's often not easy for them either. Procedure is to keep it short and as unemotional as possible.)

I think I should have been an employee termination hired gun.

Hey Marjorie. Welcome to dumpsville. Population, you. Now get your stuff and get out.

See???? I have a gift for it.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Elon with his first ever attempt at an efficiency audit



Wonder if the retired air traffic controllers he's asking to come back are asking for at least1.5 times their last salary? Actually they should ask for double

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Lol my opinion has been shaped by having 4 Starlink terminals, and half a dozen Verizon mifis, for use by my department members.

Cool.

 

[BeardedVol]

The way Elon rolled it out and took money for years (?) promising vaporware, you couldn't pay me to take one.

If you are in a place that has low cloud cover, and poor cellular reception, they are about the best or only technology you can use, but if you have decent cellular coverage, they get beat handily from a reliability and network speeds perspective.

Once we got our DIA circuits back during Helene recovery, which was at almost the same time that the cell towers were reconnected, I shipped the Starlinks back to one of our sites out west, since they are tertiary backup links for them, and Verizon coverage sucks out there.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

a fistfight on the way out the door.

That's going out in a blaze of glory.

He swung first! I almost threw a lawsuit his way but it felt better to shame him in front of a staff that hated him and suing for assault is a bitch move.

 

[hog88]

I think Starlink being "better" than Verizon is totally subjective to the application of the technology, and the environment it's used in.

Starlink terminals are basically useless in heavy cloud cover.

As a Starlink user I can say that is 100% false.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

As a Starlink user I can say that is 100% false.

It is satellite based at the day's end.

 

[BeardedVol]

As a Starlink user I can say that is 100% false.

Mileage varies; low dense clouds in the mountains have rendered them near or completely useless on multiple occasions for us.

 

[hog88]

It is satellite based at the day's end.

Never had an issue with cloud cover, works just fine during storms. When we had our “big” snow we didn’t miss a beat.

 

[hog88]

Mileage varies; low dense clouds in the mountains have rendered them near or completely useless on multiple occasions for us.

I’m sure there are certain places in earth where service isn’t that great.

We’ll be traveling with it this summer so I’ll report back on how it works in various places.

 

[McDad]

Never had an issue with cloud cover, works just fine during storms. When we had our “big” snow we didn’t miss a beat.

I thought you guys were still using two cans Tied, together with a piece of string

 

[hog88]

I thought you guys were still using two cans Tied, together with a piece of string

That’s just for sexy time.

 

[jmacvols1]

"Under Fishback’s proposal, households that are net taxpayers — those who pay into the government more than they receive in benefits — would receive 20% of all DOGE’s saving.

Another 20% will go to paying down the national debt and the other 60% would likely be allocated to the budget each year (Fishback doesn’t explicitly state that).

According to his math that would mean roughly 79 million households would get a $5,000 check each if Musk is able to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget he’s estimated he can trim.

Fishback has previously suggested the first check would come when DOGE terminates in July 2026, but if it become law before then, he said, Americans could get a check even sooner.

.....While some economists have suggested a possible dividend could push inflation higher, like stimulus checks did during the pandemic, Fishback believes his targeted approach disbursing checks will eliminate that issue.

“Sending checks isn’t inflationary … lockdowns and labor shortages compounded the effect of inflation [during Covid],” he said. “But the macro backdrop today is disinflationary.”

“It is similar to tax refund season — when the average check from the IRS is $3,100 and it goes to people’s rainy day fund, saving, and paying down debt.”

And, since the DOGE checks would only be sent to households paying taxes, these checks incentivize people to get back to work — unlike the Covid stimulus checks."

 

[Orange_Crush]

I’m sure there are certain places in earth where service isn’t that great.

We’ll be traveling with it this summer so I’ll report back on how it works in various places.

The question is whether SL would have more coverage across area than Verizon (that relies on tower coverage and can be hampered by terrain like it is where I live). I suspect the winner would be SL (that may suffer from weather conditions on occasion, but has wider satellite coverage).