Posted on 03/17/2025 7:04:24 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of employees returned to the Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies.
The FDA is the latest agency scrambling to meet the Trump administration’s return-to-office mandate, part of a flurry of actions — including firings and buyouts — intended to radically shrink the federal workforce. Monday was the first day that all rank-and-file FDA staffers were required to report to offices, including the agency’s 130-acre campus just outside Washington.
The Associated Press spoke with more than a half-dozen FDA staffers who described long lines to park and clear security, followed by hours of hunting for space and supplies in offices that were not designed to accommodate the agency’s full workforce. The staffers spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.
One staffer described “chaos and lost work hours” for commuting, security lines and shuffled office space.
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No. Most of the employees at this location are basically subject matter experts doing doc reviews. There are quotas and easily definable metrics, so most have been doing three days a week at home since the facility opened in 2012.
What did they do before covid?
Someone committed theft of US government property. Find out who and charge them accordingly.
At this point I don’t care if they sit in a folding chair and play on their cell phones all day. Bring your ass to work!
I type this sitting in my car in the dark waiting for my carpool rider to come out.
Better off if they were all just fired. The FDA shouldn’t exist as designed.
So they expected all the accoutrements of office life to be held and laid out, perfectly pristine and unused, through their five years working from home?!?
The Associated Press spoke with more than a half-dozen FDA staffers...
WOW.
More than half-dozen.
That’s like 7 ?
Truly representative of the thoudands that “work” there...
You just gotta go with the story and leave critical thinking behind (sarcasm)
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