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Federal workers receiving full pay during lockdown while at home not working
Local News | 17 May 2020 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

Posted on 05/17/2020 10:57:42 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Almost all, if not all, Federal workers are receiving FULL pay and benefits while on lockdown at home while doing no work at all. It is a fact that IRS workers are receiving full pay while most of them are at home not working at all. The media has produced almost no stories (can't find any in a search) on this subject for some reason or another.


TOPICS: Education; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bureaucrats; covid19; irs; lockdown; pay
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I can’t speak for other agencies, but I work for the DOC and we are all at home working. Same work requirements as in the office, no change at all.

It probably depends on whether the agency had a telework program in place beforehand. I can’t believe a paper processing bureaucracy like the IRS couldn’t do telework.


21 posted on 05/17/2020 11:14:11 AM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: butlerweave
So with some workers there’s no change

"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others."

Orwell's "Animal Farm"

22 posted on 05/17/2020 11:16:14 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oil field trash, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, Constitution worth dying for)
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To: clearcarbon
"Should not homeowners be receiving refunds on their property taxes for public school services not delivered?

That would be like asking a vampire to sip instead of gulp.

23 posted on 05/17/2020 11:17:40 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Who says they aren’t working? How do you know?

My husband and his coworkers certainly are working. I know how many hours per day he is closed off in his office here. I hear him on the phone with others who are available to discuss issues that arise without having to be tracked down or called back. I hear him teleconferencing. I see exactly how much time he takes for lunch.

You may know of a few people. You don’t begin to know it all.


24 posted on 05/17/2020 11:17:57 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Not just federal workers! School employees including cafeteria and bus drivers and others are being paid for sitting on their backside. Commonality? They are all paid with tax dollars!


25 posted on 05/17/2020 11:18:45 AM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: butlerweave

“So with some workers there’s no change...”

...in work output, since they are already at zero. They are just “non-performing” at a different location.


26 posted on 05/17/2020 11:19:00 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: FreeReign

Excellent point! Yes they do.


27 posted on 05/17/2020 11:21:15 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I can double down on that: I know a deaf person who got an IRS job.
To accommodate her deafness, it requires another employee, so I assume both of them are still getting paid. Yes, your tax dollars “at work.”


28 posted on 05/17/2020 11:21:46 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: butlerweave

lol


29 posted on 05/17/2020 11:22:02 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
It might be a problem in the Office.

Just the naked part; at least for federal government workers.

Gov workers never feel the pain of any economic calamity. Gov shutdown? No problem, sent home, miss a paycheck, go back to work when done, receive all back pay like nothing happened and get a free vacation.

You can bet it's a lot of fed workers pushing for a longer lockdown so they can get an even longer free vacation.

They have zero skin in the game but get all the rewards for doing nothing. It's not right and something should be done to change that like the only pay they would get is regular unemployment pay; nothing more.

30 posted on 05/17/2020 11:22:16 AM PDT by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Um, excuse me, I'm a federal worker forced to work from home, AND I AM INDEED WORKING DURING THE HOURS I'M CONFINED TO MY RESIDENCE. I also will go into the office when a task needs a hand's on approach.

SO DON'T GO LUMPING ME IN WITH THOSE YOU ACCUSE OF NOT WORKING AND STILL RECEIVING PAY. It's insulting to those of us who are doing the right thing, remaining above reproach, and trying to stay dedicated to our jobs.

31 posted on 05/17/2020 11:22:20 AM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Looks like the fed gov just got more efficient a t wasting taxpayer money.


32 posted on 05/17/2020 11:22:42 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (The only thing government does effieciently is waste taxpayer money.)
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To: ducttape45

You are the exception to the rule and you know. For once, tell the truth.


33 posted on 05/17/2020 11:24:37 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Define “almost all.” I work for the DoD and have been working from home. My entire organization has. About 20 percent have had to go to work for essential activities that cannot be done remotely.


34 posted on 05/17/2020 11:26:45 AM PDT by Arones (When Leftists are in a minority, then they look for other ways to win.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Communism. Paid straight from the govt not to work.


35 posted on 05/17/2020 11:27:48 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Do you have a real source for your post, other than “local news”?


36 posted on 05/17/2020 11:32:00 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

lazy Federal employees say

let them eat cake.


37 posted on 05/17/2020 11:32:50 AM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

It’s the bad and the good. IRS workers are at home getting full pay - bad. IRS workers are at home but they are not working - good.


38 posted on 05/17/2020 11:52:27 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

It’s probably cheaper than giving them state unemployment plus the $600/week federal unemployment.


39 posted on 05/17/2020 11:53:38 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Lots of people are getting full state unemployment plus $600/wk from federal gimme money. And they are also doing nothing.


40 posted on 05/17/2020 11:54:46 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
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