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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 176 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Iirc many of the signing bonuses required a contract of 5 years.

Which is conveniently 1 year longer than the president's term...

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stupids getting suckered and left holding the bag, not my problem.

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But also making a violent, lawless, militarized force loyal to one person, not the office.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Trump ain't going to pay those debts for them.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Eh, what you're implying is not how these things usually work. If the government side terminates your contract early, you keep the bonus. I've seen it in the military. People signed with bonuses that the government paid up front. Then while the member was in tech school his position got cut (Air National Guard), so they ended his contract but he kept the bonus because he wasn't the one that invalidated the contract. If it works the same and these ICE agents did get terminated by the next administration, they would still keep their bonus.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

If there is a next term, it will be someone who supports ICE continuing to exist.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is exactly to motivate those thugs so they do everything that trump stays in power after 2029.

Not only they might need to pay 50,000 that they probably already spent, but might be also told that they will go to jail for doing what they were told to keep that 50k.

I wouldn't be surprised that those fired ICE were fired, because they had issues with what they were told to do.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

win/win for trump :(

Lol no way, is this true? It's the world actually not as bad as it always seems, because that's fucking hilarious.