I am sure the 18F people landed quickly and in a place with a very large salary increase. So I doubt they will come back. Plus who would work for the Gov now ? High Talent people will go elsewhere.
I wonder how many cyber breaches will be blamed on these firings over the next 20 years. I am sure China and NK is going on a big hiring and training spree for crackers.
Market-state aside, it's also a bit dismissive of what other people value.
> "Assurances that we’ll all find other jobs before too long miss the point. We don’t necessarily want other jobs. We don’t want sympathy. We want our work, and the places we’ve done that work, to be recognized and valued."[1]
I was able to renew my passport fully online last year. We were finally getting somewhere with building good government tech. Really sucks that in order to prove their point that government is always useless they’ve decided to just destroy it. Hopefully picking up the pieces will be possible.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 22.3 ms ] threadI wonder how many cyber breaches will be blamed on these firings over the next 20 years. I am sure China and NK is going on a big hiring and training spree for crackers.
That's just not the job market we're in.
> "Assurances that we’ll all find other jobs before too long miss the point. We don’t necessarily want other jobs. We don’t want sympathy. We want our work, and the places we’ve done that work, to be recognized and valued."[1]
[1]: https://www.hcn.org/articles/losing-more-than-a-forest-servi...
For example, the TSA Precheck application is a terrific website.
Compare that to what I saw with the US Patent Office five years ago. Absolute hell.