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Former USAID employees will get 15 minutes to collect personal belongings from shuttered DC officeFired US Agency for International Development employees will be “escorted” to their desks and have “15 minutes” to collect personal belongings from the gutted agency’s Washington headquarters later this week, according to a notice from USAID. USAID posted the “specific instructions” former staffers must follow in order to retrieve personal effects from the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, DC, on the agency’s website Tuesday. The agency warned ex-employees that if they don’t show up during assigned timeslots on Thursday or Friday, or designate a staffer to retrieve their belongings, their stuff will be stashed in a government warehouse and could be damaged or lost. “All staff and their property will undergo magnetometer and x-ray machine screening upon entry,” read the notice. “Staff will then be escorted to their workspace, where they will be permitted to collect their personal items.”