You been DOGEd!
Can’t start? It’s their problem if they can’t process your resignation.
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.
Legally I think a resignation is valid upon delivery. CCing the new employer on a resignation email that specifies the effective date should solve your friend’s dilemma. OTOH if he continues to accept payments it would be an acknowledgement of continued employment - which the new employer wouldn’t know about but could be used by the previous employer if there’s ever any sort of legal dispute in which his exact end date is important.
This sounds super fake
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.
Maybe before the Incel in Cheif took over, now that just sounds like a Tuesday