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Re:CFPB's 1,700 employees told to "not perform any work" by tommiegannert on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:31AM (#43009664)
> CFPB is simply not delivering on its purpose, but wasting $700 milly per year just for some bureacrats to sit on their asses and do nothing

In Europe, we call that an unemployment mitigation programme. Well, we don't call it that, but that's what it is.

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Re:CFPB's 1,700 employees told to "not perform any work" by slt2021 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:35AM (#43009687)
US taxpayers feel very sick from learning about all these taxpayer funded cushy jobs for DC lawyers and clerks and aides who just push paper and get fat paycheck without any accountability, while the private industry deals with layoffs, performance improvements, at-will employment, and general uncertainty
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