Trump Administration Suggests Furloughed Workers Do Chores for Landlords to Help Pay Rent

[Demovictory9]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-administration-suggests-furloughed-workers-do-chores-for-landlords-to-help-pay-rent

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management on Thursday tweeted advice to furloughed federal workers on how to explain their precarious financial situation to creditors and landlords—including one sample letter with the suggestion that they offer to perform chores in exchange for rent payments. “I will keep in touch with you to keep you informed about my income status and I would like to discuss with you the possibility of trading my services to perform maintenance (e.g. painting, carpentry work) in exchange for partial rent payments,” one sample letter to a landlord read.

The agency also urged workers to “please consult with your personal attorney” for any required legal advice amid the partial government shutdown, during which nearly 800,000 workers have either been furloughed or asked to work without pay. On Thursday night, prospects looked even grimmer as the House and Senate both adjourned for the weekend, guaranteeing the shutdown will continue until at least next week.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. What IDIOT wrote this letter and who approved it ?

Nobody lives in Barter-town here in the States.

How out of touch with reality do you have to be to think that sending letters like this is a good idea ??

I can't wait for the sheer number of books that will come out when this administration ends. Because some of this is going to have to be read to be believed.

[gratuitous]

29. This is the Office of Personnel Management, not the administration

No, it's not very useful advice in a lot of areas, but OPM is at least proffering some ideas that might help. The administration and the Republican majority in Congress couldn't give a tinker's damn about the hardships they've imposed on the people who make the government run. You won't see any of them reaching for their wallets to help out the people they've screwed over for Christmas.

[torius]

2. I could swear I got that same letter

in email, from a prince in Nigeria, who has written a letter to give my landlord saying I will receive a mansion in return for my patient and generous assistance with needed repairs... Once I send it I can tell my landlord to take a hike!

[trixie2]

26. That was funny, thanks

[dchill]

3. Trippin'

[IcyPeas]

4. So does this include Jarvanka? .nt

[radical noodle]

5. There is so much wrong with this

What about those who have to work without pay? Are they going to get a second job to pay the rent while stupid is whining about his wall? Don't most cities have licensing for painters and carpenters, and wouldn't these folks have to pay taxes on the money that goes toward their rent if it's even possible for them to do so? I think they're giving advice that could put them in legal jeopardy.

[Demovictory9]

6. and many apt complexes have paid maintenance staff.

[radical noodle]

7. Yep...

Or contracts with companies to do all their work.

[Cha]

8. Keep Digging, Dumpty trumpty.. I suggest

a Bigger Shovel

[PatSeg]

9. Fucking bastard!

Never had to work for anything in his shitty life, but he has been that landlord. I'll bet he'd have shown no mercy to furloughed federal workers.

I'm so tired of swearing every time I read the news.

[benld74]

10. Exactly the type of work dear leader

Been performing for Komrade Boss Putinsince January 2017!! Nt

[djacq]

11. Indentured Servitude?!!

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude|

[octoberlib]

12. This is so contemptuous.

[safeinOhio]

13. What they are really saying

Do Landlords to Help Pay Rent

[lostnfound]

14. So that they can add "lawsuits for defective workmanship" to woes?

Even painting requires skill or experience or certain talent.

[egold2604]

15. People should stop paying rent at the Trump crime family-owned apartment

Everybody living in a trump crime family own apartment building should stop paying rent during the shutdown. Show them the letter an offer to take the trash out instead of paying rent

[R B Garr]

34. Exactly! Quit paying rent to Trump and offer to take

out the trash. I love it!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. Is this for real?

Please tell me that this is the Onion or Borowitz?

[edhopper]

17. Consult your personal attorney?!?

How many Government wage workers have a fucking personal attorney?

What rich, priveledge3d asshole wrote this?

[Totally Tunsie]

27. Yeah, that's it...consult your personal attorney

at $300/hr., so you can discuss not being able to pay your rent and offering services instead. Sounds about right! So, do you pay your attorney by stamping envelopes and picking up the lunch orders?

[Wounded Bear]

18. Sounds like the same people...

who wanted school children to do janitorial work to pay for their lunch programs.

[Ilsa]

19. I doubt the landlords can afford to forego

rent payments in lieu of paying more salaries.

What a stupid man.

[Codeine]

20. You can tell your grandchildren that

this was the moment that satire died.

[Autumn]

21. Will that work for the bank if they hold a mortgage?

God how stupid.

[Lars39]

22. That's the kind of crap a slumlord would suggest.

[Vinca]

23. OMG - that's the dumbest "advice" ever. I guess they're supposed to contact Citibank about

washing windows or something to pay their credit card bill or ask the electric company if they can mow the grass under power lines to keep the lights on. Amazing. Fucking amazing.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. This smells like Gingrich's nonsense

[karynnj]

25. Trump should ask himself - What would Fred Trump say to such an offer? nt

[empedocles]

28. A lot of the base likes this kind of humiliation on fed workers.

[karynnj]

36. I agree - and many think that people working for the federal government

get more money, better benefits, and have more job security than they do. This is aggrevated when people on the right compare the average federal government jobs vs the average job in the private section. Many federal jobs require more education making the comparison bogus.

[Thyla]

30. "Trading my services" eh... *wink-wink, nudge-nudge*

That is his level.

[Totally Tunsie]

33. Works for Melanoma...

[Thyla]

35. :rofl:

[Bluepinky]

31. So says the orange man who doesn't know a hammer from a screwdriver

and has never done an honest day’s work in his entire miserable life.

When he’s in prison, he should be made to dig a ditch, fill it up and then dig it again, over and over again for the rest of his time on this earth.

[R B Garr]

32. Do what Romney suggested to get ahead and borrow $20,000

from your parents, lolololol.

Such ignorant and out-of-touch people. This is just insane.

[3catwoman3]

37. Or sell some of your stock, like Willard and Anne...

...had to do when they were poor college students.