Have you ever run a company or been in a position of leadership at one? Your comment suggests not.
What Trump and Musk are doing is the opposite of proven best practices. Evaluating and cutting staff is a complex process that requires effort, thought and time. Even companies like Goldman, that cuts the bottom 10% of performers each year, has a very clear and well understood approach to determining who stays and who goes. The people who end up being cut are rarely surprised.
What DOGE is doing is ensuring that the top performers, who always have the most marketable skills, will flee the chaos for a more productive environment. You can’t evaluate 2.6m federal employees based on a five bullet point email. That’s just idiotic, and has never happened at any large corporation I have heard of other than at Twitter after Elon bought it. Comparing an online platform company to the entire federal government doesn’t hold up at all.
I have, have ran a couple of companies before. Actually took over one of them once they filed chapter 11. Had them profitable within a year and a half - then sold them off.
Cutting back on expenses was a part of that, IE layoffs.
Pretty sure Trump and crew are cutting out what they believe is waste in payroll. I think most would agree that government is too big and want changes…which is what he is doing.
Is he laying off the right people (?) - who knows, all I know is what I am reading. But one thing is probably inevitable, mistakes will be made.
But there also will be a lot of good come from it imo, time will tell.
Nobody wants to default/bankrupt. Paying more out than what’s coming in is not a good combo.
With that said, I hate it for those that are losing their jobs. But I do understand what “docindosta” is saying. I for one would certainly like to see things run more like a business, especially the accountability part. That is part of what got him elected.
