“We Want to Put Them in Trauma”: May is Mental Health Awareness Month
My agency has been actively looking for employees opinions with workplace satisfaction and viewpoint surveys. These are emails that I know many of my colleagues just ignore at this point...because they clearly can care less about what we think or how we are.
May is Mental Health Awareness month and they have only done things to negatively impact mental health of federal employees...
So the appointees and administration heads want to know how we are doing???
Let's see... just this past year you:
Obliterated telework; a method of working that has proven to be mutually beneficial for both employee and employers. Data shows employees are both happier and more productive. A win for employers.
Made it nearly impossible for anyone to get a good performance rating with a meaningful reward even though the people left have taken on 60% more workload in a very toxic work environment due to DOGE chainsawing.
Impulsively fired hundreds of people then turned around months later to ask them to come back.
Began looking for people to fill positions that were occupied by qualified, experienced people with inexperienced people who will need to be trained due to the DOGE actions that saved no money.
Took away potential for internal employees to receive promotions by demoting backfill positions.
Ensured that little to no pay increases would occur for all employees.
Incurred more expenses for employees due to additional costs associated with RTO such as gas, parking, train, extending childcare hours, lunches, etc.
Following orders from people like appointee Vought who said about the federal workforce: "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want to put them in trauma."
Here's my "anonymous" response for y'all:
FUCK OFF!!!