A Charlotte Regulator Gets DOGE'd

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1. He was on a probationary period

Three days later, on March 16, Cobb received another email, with the subject line: “Notice of Reinstatement.” The note ordered him back to work and told him he’d receive back pay (his annual salary was $255,000) for the month or so between notices. In other words, the government was now going to pay tens of thousands of dollars each, to tens of thousands of employees, for hundreds of thousands of hours they did not work, in the name of efficiency.