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Top hires in Trump’s Office of Personnel Management reportedly include a 21-year-old and a freshly graduated high-schooler

fortune.com Top hires in Trump’s Office of Personnel Management reportedly include a 21-year-old and a freshly graduated high-schooler

The Gen Z hires represent sweeping efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to overhaul federal bureaucracy and bring in “loyal, trustworthy” workers.

Summary

Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has reportedly hired a 21-year-old senior advisor and a freshly graduated high schooler, showing the administration’s unconventional hiring approach.

Many new appointees have ties to Elon Musk, including OPM’s chief of staff Amanda Scales, formerly of xAI.

The administration is restructuring government staffing, influenced by Musk’s cost-cutting model.

A White House memo, echoing Musk’s 2022 Twitter overhaul, offers buyouts to employees unwilling to meet new performance standards.

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Unconventional hiring approach? Give me a break -- these are clearly award positions for loyalists, kickbacks to their friends and relatives. Merit is out the window.
- We're gonna party like it's 1882.
  
  Where's Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
- Sanewashing, everything, all the time.
Wired did not name the two individuals out of sensitivity to their ages.

I'm sorry, what? These are people who are going to be significantly affecting OPM activities and procedure. They work for taxpayers and are adults. What journalistic rule overrules the public interest in knowing who they are?
- Think of the children /s
- Not to mention leaders of public services are listed everywhere.
Why I fear DEI: my kids won’t be able to skate by on my reputation and connections while brown people and vagina persons exhibit talent
- lol "vagina persons"
  
  Well all Americans are now female so a name had to be chosen for all the vagina peoples.
  
  The penisly impaired
  
  They walk amongst us
Elon’s work force reduction method is simple. Force everyone to return to office full time; increase hours and responsibilities with no corresponding increase in pay; and offer severance packages to employees who won’t put up with this treatment, then don’t actually pay them.

I hope the governments workers’ union is strong and has some teeth. They’re going to need it.
- Very similar to the corporate play book.
  
  Yeah, it is really fucked because most people vote no for this type of bull shit in 2012. No one wanted a Mitt Romney style corporate divide and sell off style of "government". But fuck here we are
Precisely the only two idiotic types of people who would go along with his Nazi plans.
- Yes, because clearly nobody over the age of 21 would possibly work with him. 🙄
  
  What do you think you achieve by so grossly misrepresenting their party and pinning it on "idiot" kids?
  
  You're right, idiot adults would also work with him.
  
  Nothing you can say about the Republican party is as gross as the party itself.
How the hell are you going to call yourself a senior advisor at 21 years old?

Also, who the hell is going to listen to that advice?
- It's because he advises the senior citizen in charge
- Hands new hires a bike pump
  
  "Time to inflate those titles!"
TBH it's much harder to find brainwashed ideologues over 30. That's the whole point of maga/fash youth.
- Easy to do and depending on when that photo was taken, they were clueless about the British and American bomber formations heading their way.
Welcome to the kakistocracy.
- I learned a new word today
  
  government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
- Kakistocracy is kinda the best case scenario for the next 4 years.
Either they're related to someone who cozied up. Or the goal is to hire young, naive people to maximize the chances they don't fully understand the fucking evil they're going to be asked to inflict.
- No it's 100% nepotism. In the article it says they worked close to, or for musk.
- Get 'em while they're young.
Well of course, they HAVE to give their girlfriends jobs after a few years of dating, after all!
Didn’t Earn It
Man being a 20 year old with a degree and certifications and still not finding a job related to that stuff, and then I have to see this. I really do wanna leave this bs ass country now. Fts
More incompetent people put into power to serve the whims of trump
High schooler? Somebody is fucking
"performance standards". Yeah. Sure.
- "Loyal to Trump above all else"
I feel bad for those young people getting sucked into something that will likely end badly for them.
- I have zero sympathy. You have to live in a cave to not know enough about this administration to make an informed decision, even at 18.
- If they are that stupid they deserve to learn the hard way.
- They are old enough to know what a Nazi is.
Merit based hires, I see no issue
Courting the Sperry wearing, short kaki short, tucked in polo shirt, most likely to be caught looking distraught on camera at a SEC primetime college football game crowd.
Shit is a FUKING FARCE
Is the high schooler making minimum wage?

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