My wife had a coworker Rif'd and is in the same situation. It is not fake, this is really happening to real people.

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.

Maybe before the Incel in Cheif took over, now that just sounds like a Tuesday

Sounds like Trump & Musk presidency

When I worked for a state university it was common knowledge that some people stopped showing up to work and have been getting paid for years. Usually they go on medical leave or vacation and just never come back. We had a list of ones we knew or suspected because every time we would do backend changes requiring lists of active employees those people's data would throw wrenches into the system. We weren't allowed to not include them in things because they were still employed

So it could be fake but also the government already doesn't know what it's doing on the best of days and these are not the best of days

Sadly not. Super common, and the obvious result of RIFing everyone without a care for who does what or why. Strategy was apparently on the DEI forbidden words list.

These people have zero idea how the government works, they only operate on "loyalty." Which is simply not having the audacity to speak up when something is profoundly stupid, lest it harm their ego. Everything else is scams inside of scams for personal benefit at the taxpayer's expense.

The pattern repeats over and over. Hundreds of embarassing court cases, constant incompetence beyond anything rank and file government ever did before, blatant lies the only way to save face. Clowns elected by fools to spin up a circus to entertain them all while the crops rot in the fields, with no one willing to harvest them.

I can't tell anymore.

I know a guy first hand in the same situation.