Posted on 11/18/2024 11:39:27 AM PST by Vendome
Did you know that 85% of the federal workforce works from home and only have to come in one day a month? On any given day, only 17% of the federal workforce is in a federal office building working. Many hold other jobs. It's one giant looting operation and US taxpayers are their mark.
DOGE is coming.
Time to disperse them from Washington DC.
Then after cutting the fat get them into offices five days a week around the country.
After another 25% quit or retire for having to move we might have a federal government that actually works.
I did not know it was that widespread.
Elon fired 80+% of Twitter, with zero reduction in services or capabilities. DOGE could potentially top that figure.
As someone pointed out on another thread, if you can find a way to remove a bunch of federal workers from VA, then the remaining VA residents would be sufficient to make that a red state. That’s a Win-Win.
somehow I don’t believe it
Talk about a target rich environment for The DOGE.
Turn out the lights and see who reacts.
I have a cousin who works for Fed.gov
Lived in Northern VA, but realized after Covid, he can live wherever and “telecommute.”
So he’s moving his family to the mountains in Colorado, because he likes nature and the outdoors.
this happens because Fed.gov literally has an unlimited budget of printed, fiat money and endless debt - and zero accountability.
How many millions sq/ft of office space is sucking up tax dollars with nobody in them?
Well, sell those empty building!
This is not a bug, it’s a feature - and an opportunity to downsize
Assign these working from home gold bricks to government data centers in places like Provo , Utah and other nice government meccas in flyover country
Then shut down and sell the DC area buildings .
If possible, dissolve the entire agencies they work for
Then re assign the ones left over to show up physically in their new duty locations in flyover country
Problem solved with a minimum of trouble or effort
Bad plan. No one should be depending on govt funding for providing for their family at this time
I was doing some admin on base Went to an office after rn around where there were seven uniformed people standing around hulking it up. No time for me until a serious steely eyed stare
One of them handed me a sheet of paper a mile long of BS I was to accomplish to get the benefits I had worked for. In combat
That kind of crap regardless of the accuracy of this 85 number will no longer be ok
It will be in the past
Ceased to be
An ex job
All of them!
.....”Did you know that 85% of the federal work [sic] force works [sic] from home and only have to come in one day a month?...?
there....fixed that...!!
You mean my mailman is not working from home?
As a former federal contractor with HHS I find this completely consistent with personal observations post-COVID.
Like with pretty much any other employer you CAN work a second job, but if you do, you have to notify your supervisor of the job, and it can't be anything that would give the appearance of a conflict. Like you couldn't work as a procurement officer and work part time at a company with a government contract. And it goes without saying you can't work that job while you're supposed to be working for the government (we had a woman who was running her tax prep side gig from her government office desk, she got in some major trouble and actually had to pay the government back for the time she was supposed to be working to the tune of about $50,000).
As for telework, maybe at the very peak of COVID it was 85%, but some jobs (like maintaining a server room) just cannot be done from home, so there was always a significant number of federal employees that could never telework and still can't. Pretty much every agency at this point has gone back to their pre-Covid work schedules, my girlfriend teleworks four days a pay period and goes in the other six, same as before COVID. And quite frankly there are many jobs where there is zero reason to be in the office. My girlfriend does accounting work (account reconciliations) she does not deal with the public and receives all her files to reconcile in the morning, works them throughout the day, then sends them to the Supervisory Accountant for review and approval in the afternoon. Her workload is exactly the same whether she is at home or in the office. Virtually no in person collaboration at all.
I work from home and NEVER have to go into the office.
Did you know that 50% of the federal workforce could be fired tomorrow and nobody would notice.
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