No one with a better option is coming back and waiting tables is more lucrative than teaching. If anyone comes to the departments aid it will be the dregs.

Or better yet ...

Fired workers: ... sure, I'll come back on one condition ..... you give me four times the rate of pay I had before ... then when your stupid backlog is taken care of .... you can go fuck yourself.

... oh you don't want to pay four times the rate? .... no problem .... go fuck yourself.

Probably a pretty rough spot for those employees. I imagine their pensions, health benefits and retirement stuff hinges on the definition of administrative leave etc.

If you were one of the employees on admin leave with a sick kid dependent on that healthcare plan... How big a risk would you make your kid take for you?

Probably not. Money is money.

You don’t get to order people who don’t work for you.

"What if the Federal Government was run like an HOA?"

You're ORDERING me to come back to help you fight the people who are suing you for your egregious abuses?

I will return for quadruple the salary, and a 50% pension with 100% paid health care that starts immediately after I leave for ANY reason. I will have a 4 day work week, and I will do it from home. Any Zoom meetings require 24 hours notice.

I could think of about 100 more conditions, and if they violate ANY of them, or fire me for any reason, I quit immediately, and my pension rises to 100%, and it starts immediately.

No negotiation. Agree to EVERYTHING, or the answer is No.

And then when they agreed, I'd take the job, and then tank it so badly that they'd have to fire me, because keeping me would be more damaging than paying a lifetime salary and benefits.

The Secretary of Education and the MAGA government is determined to eliminate the Department of Education, so I'd have no problem with sabotaging the agency that they are determined to destroy anyway. I just won't destroy it in the ways they want me to.

Why not stamp, "Approved"? What are they going to do, fire you?

Which country? I live in Canada and have had angry Americans explain that we live in a socialist hellhole with no rights and a poor quality of life.

Which was an interesting take since Ive lived in both countries and my life here is way the fuck better than it was down there.

They live in a delusion down there.

Well, at least Germany has currywurst and alcohol at the dollar store.

Or! Hear me out... Take the job (and pay) back, but become a hindrance until they fire you.

Imagine a world where she botched and broke her neck

You’re allowed to say “fuck”

why AREN'T you saying the f-word uncensored? are you a mormon?

Oh all the decisions... Why that one?

In all seriousness though, I suspect maybe it's what all stupidly rich, old corrupt white women look like?

She’s the hillbilly Hillary knockoff.

she was in trumps first term as the SBA head.