Gotta agree with that.
I agree that it's not hard to do, but I also agree that it's not my job to do. I may choose to do it, but I may not. In either case, it's still the responsibility of the posting party to make sure their backup data is accessible.
I thought you were handicapped and couldn't Google?
Can you provide a link to the statutory law or case law to support that claim?
Are you so dense that you can't spot an opinion?
I thought this was a legal forum. If the opinion was about a legal matter that would be OK, but I don't think that is the case.
Ahh, you can't even tell what forum you're posting in. What a shame.
So you think the Federal government should employ people for no good reason other than they need a job? Given that there are 2.4 million Federal jobs (plus an equal number of military personnel), I don't think Trump will be eliminating millions of them, even if he says he would like to.
Objection overruled.
I don't think it is funny. But the Federal government cannot keep people employed if their jobs are not needed. The US has $36.5 Trillion national debt, which is $109,000 for every adult and child in the US. So a family of four is in debt for $436,000 not counting their personal debt. Just paying the interest on the national debt is going to overwhelm our economic system.
How about the nuked nuclear safety guys. Who they're trying to rehire, but can't find them - because they already deleted their email addresses. Dumb leading dumber.
Any time someone leaves a company, they lose access to the private company/government network, so they lose access to the private email also, even if the email account is not deleted. They don't use public email like gmail, hotmail, etc. Access to the private network is taken away on the last day of employment, even if one resigns. This is standard procedure in all companies, including government agencies. But you are correct it was not smart to fire them in the first place if they are actually needed.
There are some senior level federal employees who were dismissed for cause (failure to follow instructions on various matters). These are senior level people like government prosecutors, not middle class employees. If they don't obey orders from the new administration then it doesn't matter how many great performance reviews they received in the past. Some of them resigned instead of getting fired. No packages for people who resign or fired for cause. But almost all of these high level government employees can easily get jobs in the private sector, because most of them are lawyers.
Then they shouldn't publicize that they can't "find" them. As I said - dumb leading dumber.
There are a lot of Democrats in the Executive Branch bureaucracy (probably at least 75% of the 2.4 million Federal Employees are Democrats), and a lot of left-leaning journalists, so that is why it gets publicized that way. Technically the story may be correct that these employees cannot immediately be contacted by their old managers using their company email address, but access to internal computers (and internal email) has to be immediately shut off any time an employee leaves a company or a government job.
Because Musk doesn't know what the hell he's doing and doesn't the proper way to get things done. He talks about "deleting" whole departments and agencies, something neither he nor Trump have the power to doCorporate CEOs and boards can cut their company budgets however they like. They only have to answer to the shareholders. But the President of the United States (and those working for him) don't have that same degree of freedom. The Constitution and federal statutes set limits on what they can and establish the processes to follow for what they can do. Musk has a lot of learning to do if he wants to be truly effective.
