Democrats Don’t Want Federal Employees to Have to Come to Work.

Sultan Knish ^ | 26 Oct 03:36 PM | Daniel Greenfield

[Chad C. Mulligan]

The pandemic divided Americans into two classes: those who could work from home and those who could not. Federal government employees were members of the privileged class.

And they don’t want that to change.

During the pandemic, over 90% of the EPA, USAID, the Department of Education and, ironically, the Department of Labor, were 'working' online.

The utility of federal agencies could roughly be measured by whether their employees were mostly showing up to work, the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, or were permanently out to lunch like the Department of Housing and Urban Development which did the vast majority of its work over the internet..

While the pandemic is over, the privilege of the political pajama class isn’t.

Long before the pandemic, Obama had signed into law the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010. Two years before the pandemic, Rep. Sarbanes of Maryland, who had originally introduced the Act, alongside Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia, both of whose districts are full of federal workers, proposed the Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act to free even more federal employees from having to come to work. The 2018 Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act wanted over a fifth of federal employees working from home in response to efforts by the Trump administration to get them to come to the office.

“We must push back against the Trump administration’s repeated attacks on federal telework programs," Sarbanes had complained.

That bill never went anywhere, but it’s now being rebooted by Sarbanes and Connolly as the 2022 Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act with a new post-pandemic gloss.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I can't even...... They barely work anyway, now they get away with not working while in their underwear, with the added opportunity for on-the-job sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.

[Leep]

They’re probably not rock n roll fans.

[texas booster]

Democrats Don’t Want Federal Employees to Have to Come to Work

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

The pandemic divided Americans into two classes: those who could work from home and those who could not. Federal government employees were members of the privileged class.

But the demands for telework are another painful reminder to most of the country that the balance of power long ago shifted away from voters and to the administrative state. And while we would be better off without much of the federal government, telework tends to hit customer services first as we saw with the IRS and social security hotlines. Federal agencies won’t actually stop working or cashing checks, but they will be sloppier in ways that hurt people.

Telework will then make accountability and getting answers much harder to achieve.

The Office of Personnel Management is at the epicenter of both engaging in telework, (75% or more of OPM employees worked remotely during the pandemic), and promoting it to the rest of the government, but it was responsible for one of the worst government hacks under Obama.

The OPM hack by the Chinese Communist regime exposed tens of millions of records and provided the enemy in Beijing with a thorough list of government employees including possible secret operatives. Hearings into the hack revealed that OPM had not secured the majority of its own systems. And that a contractor who had been brought on board to manage personnel records had one administrator in Argentina and another in China.

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[Libloather]

Pretty strange - I worked at work. Still a pureblood. Highly sought after.

[dennisw]

Remember a few months ago -— The baby formula crisis. I knew that half the reason was that all the Feds involved were “working” from home. This was the US Food and Drug Administration

Work from home does not work during a crisis

[popdonnelly]

They don’t produce anything of value, anyway.

[popdonnelly]

They don’t produce anything of value, anyway.

[Leep]

I agree..fire them.

[moviefan8]

If companies were smart they would fire the work at home people and have it done outside the United States because to save on labor costs.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Remember a few months ago -— The baby formula crisis. I knew that half the reason was that all the Feds involved were ‘working’ from home.”

The other half of the reason was to force “vaxed” mothers to breastfeed their babies to introduce poison into their little bodies.

[mewzilla]

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

[nathanbedford]

The teachers and their union representatives did not want to return to work either.

Since teachers unions contributions are the single largest source of money for the Democrat party, the teachers unions got their way and stayed home long after any perceived need to protect the children had disappeared.

The Democrat party operates on the principle of focused benefits vs. diffuse pain. In other words, if the teachers unions are favored over needs of parents and children, Democrats favor the union because they will be motivated at election time to give their shoe leather and their money while the parents, on the other hand, will be mostly unaware that and unfair trade off has occurred.

Recently this formula has not worked for the Democrats as the pandemic has exposed the baleful effects of pandering to government unions has had on the children. It is not clear how the downside of pandering to federal government workers will be perceive by the voters who are otherwise preoccupied.

In general, the Democrat party has made a very lucrative career for itself of trading off pieces of the public's weal to groups in the minority where the benefits will be reciprocated and the pain to the majority will go unrecognized, often based on skin color, gender, class, geography or employment.

[faithhopecharity]

There’s a lot of sickness going around in workplaces and schools / colleges. We’ve had a significant number including (but not limited to) Covid diagnosed cases.

Just because an office or school is open and operating does not mean the viruses have gotten together, voted, packed their bags, and left town

[ConservativeInPA]

The vast majority of government jobs, and dare I say, jobs in large corporations don’t produce anything tangible. Don’t get lost in the weeds with telework. The bigger problem is why do these jobs exist in the first place.

[alloysteel]

“Work from home” is an excuse for loafing for eight hours, and no peer pressure to at least LOOK like you were actively engaged in anything even remotely productive.

The efficacy of the working time is effectively reduced to the number of keystrokes delivered over the span of eight hours. Whether those keystrokes were work-related, or merely surfing the internet for porn sites, was irrelevant.

[Lockbox]

I don’t want Federal employees to come to work either, permanently, like FIRED! Tomorrow’s Friday, good day to start.

[Recompennation]

It is what they have always ben, just another part of
the ever growing permanent welfare class.
And yes, the ones and few good are included as they are part of the bad apple

[Loud Mime]

Bump

[Mouton]

Cable companies can determine how many sets are on whenever. I wonder what the number is now in the DC area mid day as opposed too three years ago? I recall in 08, during the downturn, how bad it was in the country. I had to travel to a funeral passing by vehicle through the DC beltway area. One would have thought it was boom times. Roads jammed with top dollar cars, shopping centers full, property sales zooming along. The complete antithesis of what was going on in the rest of US. Opened my eyes as to why they look down on us rubes in their minds.

I’d like the opportunity to ask each one of them “what is it that you do or produce here”. If they cannot answer effectively what that is say to them you got 30 days and 29 of them are gone.

Close the place down.

[9YearLurker]

Send them home — for good!