Are people going to actually receive the buyout? I read that some people that accepted the buyout were fired.
I've heard all kinds of weird stuff about the buyout too, including they may not even get the full 8 months. Then I heard that some took the buyout, and are happy. But again, no one really knows if they're gonna get the full 8 months. Although I haven't searched, I have yet heard or read about anybody who took the buyout say how it went, straight from their own mouths. I do have that buddy I was talking about in my last post, who still have a few years left on his mortgage. He also works for the VA btw, so I know he have some serious insight. But he's been having some very, very tough times, and I mean news that's even worse than Project 2025...but I won't go into that. Anyway, he's the type that wouldn't want me to know if he was one of the VA employees negatively affect by all this. His job always seemed so invincible working for the VA, compared to other federal government workers. Plus he was essential. But that don't seem to matter anymore.
As far as how that buyout is really going for those who took it, your guess is as good as mine. I'm down here in Atlanta, and I've slowly but surely lost touch with almost all my old government co-workers. On that note, I heard a lot of jobs at my old agency are on the chopping block as well. I've never seen that agency get threatened like this before. I remember this one younger cat who was very close to me. He will have 30 years this August. He came in as an intern with me. I hope he makes the cut. If they include his two summer jobs he had with me, when he was a part time federal guard, he may have 30 by April. But the young cats who came in a few years behind him, and accumulated like 20 - 28 years, I can only hope for the best. Then I remember this one White dude, who came in a year or two behind us as a contractor, then came in the government a grade above me. He sure changed up on me, after I had shown him the ropes when he was a contractor. Not once did I ever talk down to him the whole time he was a contractor. Sometimes I think that mess is embedded in their DNA when it comes to us, no matter how cool they seem to be on the outside. He was married, and had recently invested in the TSP. I remember he told me in this arrogant way, "I sleep well at night, knowing my money is safe". That was the first time I ever heard somebody use the term, "I sleep well at night", etc... I don't hear too many White people saying that anymore, especially since we've had 2008, 2020, and now 2025. Like they say, "Never count your chickens before they hatch".
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