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‘Trying To Digest Everything’: Federal Employee Really Upset That Trump’s Executive Orders Are Making Her Work Harder
Daily Caller ^ | January 24, 2025 | Harold Hutchison

Posted on 01/24/2025 11:16:44 AM PST by Red Badger

A paralegal at the Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed in a video posted to TikTok Thursday that President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring federal employees to return to federal government offices meant they “cannot get any work done.”

Trump issued an executive order Monday requiring agencies to terminate remote work arrangements and for employees to work in-person on a “full-time basis.” The paralegal, Kaitlin Kons, said she and her co-workers were dealing with an “information intake” and were “yapping” in the office instead of doing their jobs.

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“As a government employee, what’s so ironic about all this s#!7 going on with Trump making us go in-person five days a week to promote efficiency, and also establishing the Department of Government Efficiency, the DOGE, what’s really funny is, because of all of this news and all of the change in policy, we are yapping more at work, we are trying to digest everything that’s going on,” Kons said. “We cannot get any work done because of how much information intake that, like, existing in this administration requires.”

“And we’re not yapping just to yap. We’re yapping because every single day a memo comes down from God knows where telling us that there’s a new rule that we need to enforce for a job that does not relate to what we’re doing,” Kons continued. “Like, oh, you work for the FDA? Guess what? Now you’re going to have to enforce immigration. Any f-ing federal employee, guess what, go snitch on your f-ing colleagues if they do anything related to DEI now. Like, this week has been such a whirlwind. I cannot get work done.”

Kons, who has a side gig providing styling services for weddings, posted other videos to her TikTok about Trump’s executive orders, including one mandating an end to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts.

Kons’ LinkedIn page shows she worked at the DOJ for over three years, while she described the goal of her styling company as “providing more inclusive styling options for queer women and non-binary people” in a post on Instagram.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst unveiled a scathing report on the effects of telework on the federal government on Dec. 5, covering findings from her investigations into telework since she sent an August 2023 letter to 24 government agencies seeking requesting a review of the issues involved with telecommuting. The report detailed issues telework created involving locality pay, an adjustment to the basic pay of civilian employees in the federal government intended to make sure that federal employees have comparable compensation to private-sector counterparts in a given area of the country, and from the effects that largely vacant office buildings had on the working environment.


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To: Red Badger

>Having to check into work on-line is cutting into my soap operas
Fed workers
You Are Here


21 posted on 01/24/2025 11:48:01 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Red Badger
Kons, who has a side gig providing styling services for weddings

Kons, who has a side gig providing styling services for weddings

Translation: Now she can't do her 'side gig' during business hours.

22 posted on 01/24/2025 11:56:37 AM PST by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: BenLurkin

Simple solution... Remove all water coolers from the area


23 posted on 01/24/2025 12:02:47 PM PST by shadeaud (God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!D)
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To: cgbg

By posting criticism of her employer on Tik Tok, and admitting that she is not doing her job, she most likely can be fired.

I’m sure that publicly posting criticism of company policy (on a broadcast medium) without permission is a fireable offense.


24 posted on 01/24/2025 12:31:31 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: P-Marlowe

As I say—you always need a plan B.

That is going to be one of the big differences between this Trump administration and the first one.

By pursuing multiple strategies simultaneously you greatly increase the likelihood of success.


25 posted on 01/24/2025 12:35:10 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: cgbg

Trump is not giving the MSM enough time to concentrate on an issue long enough to create a false narrative.

I think the birthright citizenship is the one where they will go all in on. But because of the actions of Biden over the last 4 years, that one has a good chance of being upheld. So these illegal aliens will have Biden to thank for denying their children citizenship. So ironic.


26 posted on 01/24/2025 12:45:28 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I think a drug test would be revealing.


27 posted on 01/24/2025 12:46:54 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: Red Badger

Yup. It is harder to work than to not work!


28 posted on 01/24/2025 1:38:09 PM PST by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: Red Badger

“what’s really funny is we are yapping more at work”

So you admit screwing off at work? What’s even funnier is you’re fired.


29 posted on 01/24/2025 1:44:54 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like Kons should be looking for another job, say waitress.


30 posted on 01/24/2025 2:05:06 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger
we are yapping more at work,

There's a solution to that.....

If you have time to yap, you obviously need more work......

31 posted on 01/24/2025 3:19:34 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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