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Can’t start? It’s their problem if they can’t process your resignation.
Exactly. I don’t know American laws, but I would submit my resignation by registered letter (I assume there are still doormen to receive those), and if they kept paying me I would put the cash in a savings account in case they ever remember to read the mail and notice they were paying me after quitting.
I think it would probably be safer just to not cash the check from the previous employer.
It’s 2025 who still gets physical checks
The US federal government pays by check?
It’s not moving from one company to another.
It’s moving from the government regulator to a company regulated by that former employer. The rules on government conflicts of interest still apply, and you can’t accept a paycheck from a regulated entity while you’re still technically employed at the regulator.
“regulated”
“Lol” - Fascist oligarchs
Assuming laws still matter, of course. It is 2025, after all. We’re in the age of “What are you going to do if I don’t?”
Pretty sure there’s no rule against having two jobs, especially if you don’t have to go to one of them.
Yeah this whole thing is bullshit.
A lot of contracts have an exclusivity clause. So in that case they’d be vulnerable to breach of contract lawsuit.
They are all unenforcable and illegal.
If the job is in an industry regulated by the fda it can be considered a conflict of interest and normal government employees would need to have that approved by an ethics committee
Resigned. Not an employee.
Some agencies have cool down clauses where the person who left willingly can’t work on projects for that agency for a period of time after leaving.
I can see this becoming an ethics problem for some agencies.
Until the resignation is processed they are an employee hence the paycheck. It’s an anti corruption regulation otherwise a person could get a job at a pharma company and on their last day at the fda try and push a bunch of approvals through. That type of corruption is reserved for members of congress, president, Supreme Court, and of course the special government employee
Nah. Just because they still have you on payroll and haven’t pulled your door card and logon does not mean you’re still an employee. Resigned is resigned, whether the employer decides to handle their internal paperwork or stop paying you is irrelevant.
I’m on my phone and don’t have the effort required to make the meme but until it’s processed it’s as official as Michael Scott’s “I declare bankruptcy”.
Forcing someone to be your employee against their will is slavery, right?
Nobody is being forced to do work… do you know what life was like as a slave and are just being incredibly tone deaf or do you not understand what slave labor actually is.
When you have an oversight position you have to ensure there are no conflicts of interest the simplest method is to say you can’t work for another company while employed in that oversight position. The federal government tries to be even more accommodating and says you can even work at another company as long as you clear it with an ethics office. You are required to sign an employment contract where you agree to those terms if you want the original position.
In order to be free from that contract you need to process a form. It’s really not the most ridiculous thing to ask from people in charge of oversight to have just the slightest anti corruption protections that cause the minor inconvenience of getting paid money to not work…
This also wouldn’t even be a problem if the HR department was properly staffed instead of being recklessly cut as now they can’t handle a single employee taking leave which they are 100% entitled to
This sounds super fake
Yes, I don’t think you can be in limbo for more than the statutory 2-weeks notice period or some such.
Still, there’s going to be quite some extra cost associated with the heads-over-heels way in which contracts were cancelled.
That’s intentional. Bleed the agency to death so it can’t operate.
Probably fake, but to be fair, the government isn’t exactly following the rules these days.
My wife had a coworker Rif’d and is in the same situation. It is not fake, this is really happening to real people.
I know several people in this category: still employed by the government and subject to government ethics rules, unhireable by any company that still needs to follow that government agency’s rules about conflicts of interest.
Hilarious to imagine corporations respecting the sanctity of “conflict of interest” in hiring govt employees, especially in 2025. Think of the optics!
