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thunkylast Friday at 2:07 PM1 replyview on HN

I agree with everything you said, but it's also not impossible to be laid off by the govt for no reason so there may have been a false sense of security:

https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/nprrpt/annrpt/vp...


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insane_dreamerlast Friday at 2:39 PM

Yeah, interesting. Nearly 3/4 of that workforce reduction was at the DOD.

They somehow managed to do it without a bunch of firings, though it doesn't explain the mechanisms (I didn't have time to dig in further):

> A variety of mechanisms have been used to accomplish this, thereby keeping the use of involuntary terminations to a minimum. In fact, of the 239,286 person reduction, only 20,702 have been involuntarily separated.

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