The “D.O.G.E.” asked federal employees to report “what they did last week” per this summary:
Musk Email Prompts Weather Agency to Compile Nonresponders List
This included NOAA and the National Weather Service.
Naturally an employee being considered for termination and knowing that was a consideration might not trust the process of termination to be done consistently, fairly, and objectively. Some of these positions involve highly technical data and demand good skill at using it. Even if that were appreciated it might not affect outcomes.
So, why not comply as requested but answer with the highly technical language appropriate to the meteorological skill rather than in a form which members of D.O.G.E. are likely to understand And refuse to provide any additional explanation. What’s the worst that can happen? Sure, termination, but the alternative is working with little chance of advancement or any appreciation for a group of people whose leader thinks forecasting the path of a hurricane is simply a matter of drawing lines on an easel. And the same group and leader believe anthropomorphic climate change is bupcus, and not caused by human mediated emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels.
What’s there to lose?
The loss came in part today: 880 NWS workers fired.
It’s not NOAA, but it seems the same folks are trying to do similar things with EPA, and not knowing what exactly they want to do, or the difference between people and money,
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