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Top hires in Trump’s Office of Personnel Management reportedly include a 21-year-old and a freshly graduated high-schooler

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Top hires in Trump’s Office of Personnel Management reportedly include a 21-year-old and a freshly graduated high-schooler - Lemmy.World

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.

Jan 30, 2025 at 2:09amWeb
Show threadjust_another_personJan 30, 2025
Precisely the only two idiotic types of people who would go along with his Nazi plans.
Show threadEchJan 30, 2025

Yes, because clearly nobody over the age of 21 would possibly work with him. 🙄

What do you think you achieve by so grossly misrepresenting their party and pinning it on “idiot” kids?

Show threadfutatoriusJan 30, 2025
You’re right, idiot adults would also work with him.
Show threadEchJan 30, 2025
That would be my point.
Show threadlolcatnipJan 30, 2025
Nothing you can say about the Republican party is as gross as the party itself.
Show threadEchJan 30, 2025
Not what ‘grossly’ means in this context.
Show threadlolcatnipFeb 1, 2025
Sorry for making a pun?
Show threadEchFeb 1, 2025
If you’re misrepresenting what I said? Yeah.
Show threadlolcatnipFeb 1, 2025
Enjoy being mad about it. No skin off my back.
Show threadhenfredemarsJan 30, 2025
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.
Show threadNougatJan 30, 2025
We're gonna party like it's 1882.
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act - Wikipedia

Show threadfutatoriusJan 30, 2025
Where’s Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
Show threadskulblakaJan 30, 2025
Spinning in his grave fast enough to power the entire country with some to spare
Show threadstormeuhJan 30, 2025
Sanewashing, everything, all the time.
Show threadgreenshirtdenimjeansJan 30, 2025
Merit based hires, I see no issue
Show threadTodayJan 30, 2025
I feel bad for those young people getting sucked into something that will likely end badly for them.
Show thread[deleted] in lemmyJan 30, 2025
If they are that stupid they deserve to learn the hard way.
Show threadchase_what_mattersJan 30, 2025
I have zero sympathy. You have to live in a cave to not know enough about this administration to make an uninformed decision, even at 18.
Show threadayyyJan 30, 2025
They are old enough to know what a Nazi is.
Show threadBigLimeJan 30, 2025
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
Show threadF/15/[email protected]Jan 30, 2025
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
Show threadNougatJan 30, 2025
lol "vagina persons"
Show threadBreezyJan 30, 2025
Well all Americans are now female so a name had to be chosen for all the vagina peoples.
Show threadvaultdweller013Jan 30, 2025
I thought that was a reserved slur for folks from the Virginia’s.
Show thread[deleted] in lemmyJan 30, 2025
West Vagina.
Show threadGraphyJan 30, 2025
Mountain momma, indeed
Show threadGBU_28Jan 30, 2025
They walk amongst us
Show threadswab148Jan 30, 2025
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Show threadGBU_28Jan 30, 2025
My God
Show threadPalmTreeIsBestTreeJan 30, 2025
That 18 year old was born in 2007 guys…
Show threadsubignitionJan 30, 2025
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.
Show threadNougatJan 30, 2025
Get 'em while they're young.
Show threadBigLimeJan 30, 2025
No it’s 100% nepotism. In the article it says they worked close to, or for musk.
Show threadDrusasJan 30, 2025
"performance standards". Yeah. Sure.
Show threadphdepressedJan 30, 2025
“Loyal to Trump above all else”
Show threadKenTheEagleJan 30, 2025
Courting the Sperry wearing, short kaki short, tucked in polo shirt, most likely to be caught looking distraught on camera at a SEC primetime college football game crowd.
Show threadAbidanYreJan 30, 2025

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?

Show threadshastaxcJan 30, 2025
It’s because he advises the senior citizen in charge
Show threadDjMeasJan 30, 2025

Hands new hires a bike pump

“Time to inflate those titles!”

Show threadN0bodyJan 30, 2025

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.

Show threadLuxSparkJan 30, 2025
Very similar to the corporate play book.
Show threadSamsonreturnsJan 30, 2025
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
Show threadWhatAmLemmyJan 30, 2025
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.
Show threadReallyActuallyFrankensteinJan 30, 2025

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. Why would you not name them?

Show threadFrozengyroJan 30, 2025
Not to mention leaders of public services are listed everywhere.
Show threadTm12Jan 30, 2025
Think of the children /s
Show threadfutatoriusJan 30, 2025
Welcome to the kakistocracy.
Show threadspooky2092Jan 30, 2025

I learned a new word today

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

Show threadYeller_kingJan 30, 2025
Kakistocracy is kinda the best case scenario for the next 4 years.
Show threadSkunkWorkzJan 30, 2025
Didn’t Earn It
Show threadEddbopkinsJan 30, 2025
More incompetent people put into power to serve the whims of trump
Show threadPsychadelligoatJan 30, 2025
Well of course, they HAVE to give their girlfriends jobs after a few years of dating, after all!
Show threadtechnocritJan 30, 2025
TBH it’s much harder to find brainwashed ideologues over 30. That’s the whole point of maga/fash youth.
Show threadBakkodaJan 30, 2025
Show threadGammelfischJan 30, 2025
Easy to do and depending on when that photo was taken, they were clueless about the British and American bomber formations heading their way.
Show threadGammelfischJan 30, 2025
Is the high schooler making minimum wage?
Show threadPedroMaldonadoJan 30, 2025
Shit is a FUKING FARCE
Show threadClinicallydepressedpoochieJan 30, 2025
High schooler? Somebody is fucking