Hehe I took the early retirement last year, and they’re going to pay me several thousand dollars a month for the rest of my life to do nothing. I’m only 51, so it’s likely to be a while. I’ve started a second career as a photographer, and my health insurance is through my retirement.

I made more working for them, but they’re going to pay me for a few decades to not do anything!

My partner works for FEMA but she’s a duel citizen and we’re getting the fuck out. She’s the last one who knows how to do her job with a total of three partial backups in the entire country, recently down one as another country sold them on immigrating. Another person is also the last in the region that can do their job and Canada’s immigration’s threw out the red carpet for them. Last year a Princeton educated engineer just dropped his stuff at his managers desk and walked out; according to linkedIn they’re working for some French agency doing the same thing they did at FEMA but on what looks like a tropical island east of Africa.

The losses aren’t monthly but its almost guaranteed at least one person taps out every week. This is playing out all over the country across every agency.

All the shutdowns have an additional price no one talks about. Every agency has to decide whose essential, for how long, while facilities and equipment are secured and prepped to be neglected for an unknown amount of time. There needs to be meetings to hash this out among everyone. So that’s just a little bit of money wasted right there. Don’t forget the cherry on top is the time wasted bringing things back online.

The USA is irrevocably changed as its highly educated and uniquely skilled work force walks out the door or just says fuck it and retires. These people are the least likely to ever consider coming back.

Gib job, pleeze?

Thank God Elon Musk stepped in and fixed all those inefficiencies.