Elon, aka Office of Personnel Management, aka S.H.I.T.H.E.A.D.:

We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so. The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.

Damn dude, this is so awesome, I’ve literally never been tied to this fuck through even consumption and now I have him pulling on my chains, at the best possible time

41 points

That’s some of the dumbest most redditor type stuff I’ve ever read. That man is incredible. Just a walking avatar of I can Haz cheezburger ragecomics
I’m so sorry on your behalf.

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35 points

Sorry comrade, that’s so fucking shitty…

I have a friend who is also getting these types of emails on blast and her department isn’t being very forthcoming about what the realistic expectations should be going forward.

So much uncertainty and fear across pretty much the entirety of the public sector right now… it’s really unsettling.

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4 points

Thats gotta be great for productivity and efficiency. -.-

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What I want to know is, where are the unions in all this? Unionization rates are high in the public sector, I would think they’d be fighting this shit tooth and nail.

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40 points

I’ve been wondering the same thing. Last I heard from my friend who is dealing with this, the union didn’t have a response yet…

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30 points

What fools, you’ve had weeks to prepare

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8 points

Yeah, it seems like everybody in the country was operating under the assumption that nothing was going to change. Now that things are changing they are all surprised pikachu and trying to keep their heads in the sand as long as possible.

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I mean the Janus decision has decimated public union funding that they haven’t truly recovered from

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6 points

I keep getting mailers from some stupid American Freedomburger nonprofit with prefilled postcards to send to the union to get them to stop collecting my dues. One around the holidays had a Janus decision jingle on it. We’ll see if they keep sending them or if the “fuck off” scrawled on it under “return to sender” sent the appropriate message.

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encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the _____ sector to higher productivity jobs in the _____ sector

Economics pop quiz! Fill in the blanks with the words “private” and “public”!

Answer Key
  1. Private, 2. Public.


The private sector is inherently wasteful and corrupt. The waste is built in and considered a good thing, it’s called “profit.” Dollars invested to value produced, the public sector wins and it’s not even close.

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31 points

I mean the single biggest line item in our discretionary budget is “giveaways to the war profiteers” so there needs to be a caveat for public sector (when not run by absolute demons)

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19 points

We all know that’s not getting cut and that’s not what Melon is referring to here

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10 points

At the risk of being a , I think it still illustrates the principle. Waste, fraud, and abuse aren’t inherently the domain of the private sector and the bourg are just as adept at using the public sector to extract value from the public.

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8 points

The private sector is so efficient it has several companies making functionally meaningless varieties of the same goods, all having to dance around red tape due to IP laws they lobbied to have instated.

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4 points

No, you see, “waste” is any money that doesn’t flow upward to fill the pockets of the chosen few. That amount, obviously, must be curtailed.

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32 points

quick question what has military ever produced? negative productivity leeches, just consuming and consuming

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20 points

I guess this is the exception to my comment about the public sector being more efficient than the private sector. The military single-handedly dragging those numbers to the opposite end of the scale.

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What’s up with conflating all government workers as intelligence operatives and military personnel?

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15 points

Plus we all know which parts of the government are absolutely not getting cut by

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We need to start framing the military as an inefficient and wasteful cost the same way they frame healthcare.

“What if the government abuses their free use of the military and they don’t really need it?”

“We don’t want to give the Pentagon handouts, they’ll become dependent and won’t have an incentive to work!”

“They’re just taking they money and using it to buy drugs and alcohol!”

“Year over year there’s no profit, they’re always in the red! Spending all this time on indoctrination that they call “training”, how hard can it be, just aim and pull the trigger!”

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17 points

It’s already framed that way with 50000 toilets and whatever the fuck, just nobody has the balls of trump and opportunity to say it in debate

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Pretty sure an average lefty with fair debate skills could wipe the floor with him.

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4 points

Exciting new ways to crash aircraft, if the news is anything to go by

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6 points

They’re integral to the operation of private enterprise. It may be a sub conscious understanding, but they are very well aware that the “value” produced in the private sector is entirely enabled by the military, so they inherently give it a pass. Plus all the propaganda that makes people feel good and not terrified when an F-16 screams overhead in your city.

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