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Posted on 02/15/2025 4:35:54 PM PST by ransomnote
Some need to win a coin flip to use a desk. Others say they’re killing time when workstations aren’t available.
As the Federal Emergency Management Agency prepared for its full workforce to report in person this month, it faced a situation many agencies are confronting as they scramble to comply with President Donald Trump’s return-to-office mandate: There weren’t enough workspaces for everyone.
As a result, employees would have to “share workstations on a rotating basis,” the agency announced in guidance shared with employees last week. The guidance, obtained by The Washington Post, stated: “Supervisors will resolve workplace availability conflicts using the following criteria in the order listed below.”
Topping the list was “full-time employment status,” followed by seniority and pay-scale criteria. But if none of those settled the conflict, supervisors were directed to turn to the sixth item on the list: “flip of a coin.”
This is the new reality some government employees are facing as they seek something as basic as a desk to work at.
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With the administration also working to terminate leases on federal offices nationwide, some agencies are already requiring most workers back.
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Her office has 14 working desks for 40 people, he said, so they take turns at the desks and spend the rest of the day killing time and chatting in the halls.
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To deal with overcrowding, the agency’s management barred full-time on-site contractors from using the garage. According to the employee, no exceptions were made for disabled contractors with handicap placards, many of whom are veterans.
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A DHS spokesperson said in a statement that the department’s parking policy “aligns with pre-pandemic guidelines, which did not permit contractor parking,” and that “this policy is being reintroduced to prioritize parking for federal employees.”
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Years ago I had to get fingerprinted for a government contract I was working on.
I went to a USDA site in Maryland just outside of DC. No metro station nearby, but that’s OK, they had acres of parking...
..for Federal employees.
Visitors got to choose from one of 5 parking spots with a 15-minute limit.
(I no longer work on any Federal contracts, and I probably never will again).
I heard that Biden got rid of a lot of offices, desks, buildings etc.when hesitated the work from home thing.
5+ years is not what I call “rushed.”
THE BUILDINGS THEY WORKED IN BEFORE COVID DID NOT SHRINK.
THE STORY DOESN’T ADD UP.
Sounds like they have too many people now. Some have to go. What? Were they breeding like rabbits during the “remote work” time period?
>> “There weren’t enough workspaces for everyone.”
>> Then there are too many employees.
EXACTLY! Duh. Fire ‘em.
I’m not sure it is wise for them to make a big deal out of it... lol
Maybe they shouldn’t have goofed off the past five years?
I use to work in a Federal Office building. The parking garage was for executives, individuals who were assigned a night shift, and car pools. The rest of us took mass transit or parked somewhere else.
Oh noes good heavens ya mean people WE are paying have to get their asses to work instead of sitting at home in their undies eating twinkies the horror
Your post is correct for DC HQ offices.
Field offices around the country have a variety of arrangements depending on location.
Precisely correct.
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Just wait till you see the chaos that ensues after they get to the office!
Maybe the chaos was part of the design. It certainly proves a point - Agencies have hired so many people that they don’t even have enough desks or parking spaces for them. Perhaps these were “no-show” jobs given out to campaign supporters, only now they have to show up to keep collecting. Perhaps a number of them will resign. Not enough took the buyout offer from last week, so now the probationary employees got fired and and a number of the rest will get frustrated and quit. The important jobs can be done with important people and the unimportant tasks can be automated or simply done away with to focus on core missions.
Being paid to vote democrat. Sitting at home for years doing nothing.
Maybe they never had to go to the office. Just on the payroll as a payoff to someone. Obviously if they did work there prior to 2020 then they’d have desks and offices.
Would like to see a bunch of them move out of northern Virginia. We could get the state totally back.
Just more proof that the gov't agency directors hire workers, not based on need, but based on the perks that come with controlling more people, both monetary and social. I would do "reverse-firings"--let the most senior people go first. This would mean the most expensive employees are gone and those who are left, hopefully, haven't yet mastered the art of stealing from their employer...we taxpayers.
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