From a piece in Business Insider on Leland Dudek and Frank Bisignano:
… Bisignano's confirmation is awaiting a full Senate vote, which is expected after the chamber votes on nominees for multiple diplomatic positions. …
Some who spoke with BI expressed surprise that he would join the Trump administration. An archived biography from First Data, where he served as chair and CEO, said he's "a strong supporter of diversity" and helped create affinity groups for women and LGBTQ+ employees at the company. He's donated to candidates on both sides of the aisle, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, and Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, records show. In May 2019, Bisignano gave $125,000 to the Trump Victory PAC and another $83,900 to the Republican National Committee. …A person who has spoken with Dudek said they believed some of his bluster might be a smoke screen. They said Dudek, like previous commissioners, said he feared that the system was on the brink of collapse and worried about people not receiving their benefits — a similar sentiment to what Dudek expressed in a recording obtained by ProPublica. They feel that he thinks he's doing damage control and running interference between DOGE and everyone else.
"It felt like a bunch of 6-year-olds with too much sugar had been put in charge of the agency and were just kind of running all over the place, randomly disconnecting and reconnecting things in different ways," the former SSA manager said.
Some of the decisions at Fiserv that played out on Bisignano's watch appear to have rankled some of his employees. A former Fiserv client project manager said that return-to-office policies rolled out late last year under Bisignano contributed to his decision to leave. The former manager described the culture as "a bit of a sweatshop." …
Bisignano "loves his reputation for fixing things," said one person who worked closely with him, "not for burning things down." …
I’m pretty sure that if he knew now what’s he’s going to learn in the next few months that Bisignano would not want to be Commissioner of Social Security. The impressive knowledge and skill which he has demonstrated in his previous career will be completely inadequate to the task because he’s faced with a truly impossible task.
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No mystery here. The greedy have no principles beyond self-enrichment. They’ll donate to the literal second coming of Hitler if it looks like it might make them more money.
He‘s looking to line his own pockets, whether by pushing the program toward privatization, or simply making his own company the payments processor.
And to make things even worse, the agency just opened up the second iteration of the deferred resignation program aka DRP 2 to employees in mission critical jobs. Who is making these decisions????
Frank Bisignano’s job is to privatize Social Security and that would accomplish the mission for his Wall Street buddies.
You should re-read that email. It only extends the offer previously made to HQ employees to RO employees. Mission critical employees remain ineligible, regardless of where they work.
I have always wanted the confirmation hearings to include the following question: "Why on Earth would you want to be SSA Commissioner? You have no control of your budget, or the policies, or the employees. What do you actually think you can do?"
How does anyone even know if they are mission critical or not. This whole thing is a joke. It’s now open to operations employees in RO and ODA-those were mission at one point. I think everyone needs to realize that once phase two starts in a few days, nobody is going to be exempt from RIFs except maybe FO employees.
Are there any RO employees left in the RO? I thought they all took the forced “voluntary” reassignments. Also why would anyone want to still be in the RO it’s probably depressing there.
I feel like some of this is to make leland dudeck look better as a knight with a smokescreen. Nope. He has made stupid decisions that have had to be reversed. He admitted he cancelled Maine’s EAB contract because he got ticked at the governor’s defiance. Watch the youtube public meetings for the agency where they claim they love the customer but Leland and his yes pals take things away agaonst them.
@5:29, April 28,2025: There are still a few of us left in RO. Mostly skeleton crew for lights on purpose. As depressing as it the environment might be, it’s heaven compared to what life must be like for those who opted to sign their rights away. You see, a large number of the people remaining in RO are comprised of people whose voluntary reassignments have been delayed for obvious reasons and those who refuse to concede to the fear and uncertainty imposed on us by this reprehensible administration. While in the end the strong may ultimately lose, we do so of our own volition.
“Es mejor morir de pie que vivir de rodillas”
Translation: “I would rather die standing than to live on my knees.”
- Emiliano Zapata
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