Posted on 01/31/2025 5:47:05 AM PST by Navy Patriot
U.S. — With President Donald Trump ordering all government employees to come back to working in person by February 6, federal workers expressed concern that returning to the office would interfere with them not working.
Thousands of federal employees who had been afforded the opportunity to work remotely following the COVID-19 pandemic said they were disappointed that being required to return to working in person would negatively impact their desire to collect paychecks without actually working.
"I'm not sure I want a job where I have to work," said IRS case analyst Steve Reaves. "That's not what I applied for a government job to do. Once COVID hit, we were all allowed to just sit at home, wear our pajamas all day, take naps, and just generally not do anything that amounts to work. This order from Trump will really cramp my style. If it's all the same, I'd much prefer to keep doing my job from home where I can spend more of my time not working."
Trump's order was met with opposition from across the federal workforce. "Are they expecting all of us to just, you know, come into the office and, like, do work?" asked Sheila Dobbins, an EPA administrative assistant. "That's ridiculous. Requiring employees to do their jobs is an obvious abuse of power. We won't stand for it."
At publishing time, thousands of federal workers were reportedly preparing to stand on street corners holding signs reading "will sit at home and do no work for food."
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Of course this is a joke, but COVID was handled the way it was for a reason - partly to accelerate and amplify the creation of these people.
Only a starvation-level lack of options will make these people work, again. The uglier it is, the quicker they will adapt.
This is a joke, but its really not a joke. They don’t want to come back because they will have to work more.
You both are correct.
I get the satire however all kidding aside, I worked for the DoD for over 30 years and these people better get their asses in gear and back to work or the ones that don’t should ALL be terminated IMMEDIATELY.
They pretend to work, but we don’t pretend to pay them.
Really tough to be a satirists these days
I think there is a lot of truth in this account of federal workers.
They’re vowed to keep on “working” - don’t know how that is possible after they’re locked out of the system on Feb.6th.
Apparently this is what Musk did to purge Twitter.
Maybe if companies make pajamas the new company uniform maybe it’ll ease the stress huh Moe.
I feel their pain. Office work really cuts into my sitting around time.
Why? See The Peter Principle and its corollaries for the end game. You know:
My neighbor to a T. Too busy building bee houses to be be troubled....
We should learn from real world historical lessons.
It's a little easier to lampoon a government bureaucracy, Kudos for trying to keep everyone's feet on the ground, and eyes wide open.
Trump should put all of Government on a part time basis.
Commuting interferes with not working. They have to work at going to the place of employment where those apparatchiks do as little as absolutely necessary.
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