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:
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.
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.