Posted on 02/23/2026 2:24:32 AM PST by Libloather
Los Angeles City Hall looked less like the nerve center of America’s second-largest city Friday — and more like an abandoned office complex after a zombie apocalypse.
Entire hallways with deserted offices. Corridors eerily silent. Parking garage empty besides the city hall guards.
When the California Post visited City Hall Friday, the Office of Finance, a council liaison office, and the Los Angeles Housing Department were closed for business.
Over the course of the day, about 50 Angelenos oblivious to the closure turned up to pay their bills or seek financial advice, only to find no staff to help them.
**SNIP**
The irony is stark: Los Angeles is scrambling for revenue, yet on Friday, there was nowhere for taxpayers to pay.
Los Angeles City employs about 50,312 workers across about 44 departments and bureaus in numerous buildings across Los Angeles, with a total payroll of $6.4 billion.
Each is run by a general manager who decides when employees must report in person to the office.
The California Post contacted 40 city departments asking about their policies on remote work.
Only the Los Angeles Housing Department confirmed a they are still working from home a certain amount of days a week. Two other departments — including the Department of Public Works — replied only to say the inquiry had been forwarded and that a response would be forthcoming.
The Post discovered several offices were closed only after visiting City Hall in person.
Los Angeles Housing Department alone has about 670 employees, the Office of Finance about 230, and the Bureau of Street Services commands a workforce in the thousands responsible for maintaining streets, sidewalks and trees across Los Angeles’ 470 square miles.
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Liberals ruin everything.
Just wait, we ain’t seen nothing, yet.
Something about running out of “other people’s money” comes to mind. L.A. and N.Y.C. are just the beginning.
AI will make everybody rich.
Pathetic. I have had my fill of lazy people. Lazy nurses at hospitals telling me when they intend to clean up my patient, me changing the sheets on the hospital bed, terrible “food” at the hospital, requiring me to bring in decent food, lazy government workers working only when it suits them and then, if the problem is a little thorny, palming it off on someone. People ought to be ashamed. You only get decent treatment if you are a celebrity. You can all take a long walk off a short bridge.
It is fortunate LA does not have snow storms, else their paid citizen shovel force would insist on shoveling remotely. Somalis are particularly good at remote shoveling.
Rich, poor, dead
What’s the difference?
But this is what the Angelinos voted for, is it not?
Turn City Hall into a Homeless shelter The homeless have great experience in taking tax money.
An LA taxpayer’s problem.
The lefties and their ilk continue to entertain the rest of us.
However, these “work from home” government “workers” are typical government employees in many/most instances. They get paid to do nothing constructive for society/taxpayers...and they do it with a distasteful arrogance that reinforces the self-importance they project.
Can you say parasite?
“”turned up to pay their bills””
What bills do they pay at City Hall?
Water, taxes, power. LA has it’s own power grind. Most invaders do not have checking accounts.
I knew it was bad, but this is still shocking. Liberals used to have the energy to surround themselves with the glitz of power. For those who still come in for work, it has to harden the psyche to deny what stares them in the face every day. Soon they’ll be dodging dead rats.
And still it’s never enough.
“”turned up to pay their bills””
What bills do they pay at City Hall?
how does the custodian dept WFH?
Get ready to find out that half the WFH employees are completely fake and someone is scamming for money and health insurance.
Bad as this situation is, it will get much worse when Nithyan Raman, an out-and-out Communist, is elected mayor later this year.
LA is going to be getting free noodles?
That’s right. To have a checking account, you must have a state id. They live in a cash society.
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