Many Americans may not realize this, but the actions of DOGE were effectively the destruction of their generational inheritance; decades and generations of taxpayer dollars to build an effective machine for doing the work of government.

That won't be rebuilt in a month or a year or even a decade. Its multi-generational damage which has been done.

I've seen it first hand. I work as a consultant in public sector. Every where we go now the teams are crippled because people took the buyouts and left. Network teams that were 7 people reduced to 2 that are barely keeping things together. I'm sure NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, etc... love selling all these consulting hours now.

DOGE saw a 250lb body builder and said "Lose some weight, fatso!"

Duh it was nothing but a cover for the grift of billions of dollars.

By June, Congress was drawn, largely down party lines, on whether to codify the “DOGE process”—rapidly firing employees, then quickly hiring back whoever was needed

To consider this as an intentional "process" a person has to have zero empathy.

DOGE couldn't have possibly worked, ever. I think everybody knows a situation where there's an employee who is contributing far more than their own manager knows. So the point is that even if you asked everybody's immediate managers to decide who to lay off, you'd have huge mistakes being made.

A central bureaucracy like DOGE is so much farther removed from that situation that it's not even funny. There is simply no way that it has the expertise to conduct layoffs, and it was obvious from the beginning. Companies facing layoffs know that they will lose unreplaceable employees, but they have to do so due to immediate financial pressures, nothing like what the government faces.

So, DOGE was either a stupid idea created by absolute morons, or it was a cover for bad actors who never intended to do what they claimed. Or a little from column a, and a little from column b.

Efficiency-obsessed weirdos don't understand redundancies. All they see are inefficiencies, and think people can just make up for them in harder times by just "working harder", which for these weirdos just become a new baseline for even more cuts.

Musk is a Nazi & should be deported.

Elon Musk is Nazi he need kick out of America.

Musk for prison 2026!

This is what happens when someone has a whole shitload of money but not a good understanding of the world in which he can spend it.

Were they hired back at the same pay rate?

I don't see anything in the article, or did miss it?

One of many troubling issues with all this and the way it was handled is that these cuts were made too hastily. My former employer is a federal contractor whose income was some mix of federal, state, and private. Had there been sufficient time to reallocate staff and resources towards state and federal private funding, they/we would have had time to change our strategy and pursue those other lines of funding -- likely avoiding the massive monthly layoffs that have been going on in 2025. But that takes time, which was not something anybody had with the sudden, drastic, and unprecedented cancellation of federal contracts that did not leave any room for a smooth transition It was just lost jobs and shattered lives with little to no benefit for working class people.

It may just be my circle, but my friends and colleagues who managed to keep their jobs pretty much all complain about how they're dealing with burnout now because they have an untenable workload but also the work environment is so stressful because everybody's still under threat of more layoffs. This is happening both in federal work as well as private industry.

Doge was a grift, nothin more. It's always a fucking grift with those "people".

DOGE was nothing more than an entity to fleece the American people of resources and information...and likely to scrub some information that might incriminate certain individuals.

It'll be a good day when seal team six is bin laden-ing this mangled cock ass hat.

I hope they were able to negotiate higher pay to come back too and some kind of signing bonus since their last deal was broken