About a day before one of the worst aviation disasters in American history, employees of the Federal Aviation Administration received an email from the government in which they were once again asked to resign.
The Office of Personnel Management sent a mass email to federal employees in which FAA workers were encouraged to resign from their positions and look for opportunities outside of government offices. Employees asked to resign included air traffic controllers.
"We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so," stated the email obtained by The New York Times. "The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector."
The email continued to suggest that employees could either assume other jobs or even take a vacation and travel to their "dream destination" if they chose to resign, saying they could remain on public payroll for some time before leaving.
This conflicts with what employees were previously told, which is that taking a second job while actively working for the federal government is against the law.
Employees from the the Homeland Security Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Justice Department all received the email. However, the timing of the email was particularly severe for the FAA, according to employees.
One day after the email was sent out, an American Airlines commercial jetliner collided with a Black Hawk helicopter in Washington DC's airspace, marking one of the worst aviation disasters in US history. All passengers on both aircraft are presumed dead, bringing the death toll up to 67.
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