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Under 50% of Fed Workers Have Come Back to the Office
Independent Sentinel ^ | February 24, 2025 | M Dowling

Posted on 02/24/2025 1:12:31 PM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 02/24/2025 1:12:31 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

We’re probably going to find out that “That’s Everybody!”.


2 posted on 02/24/2025 1:14:17 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was not created to be a jobs program. )
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To: Red Badger

This reminds me of the Air Traffic Controllers under Reagan, he told them to end the strike or get fired, they thought he was bluffing and kept the strike going, which became the true definition of FAFO.


3 posted on 02/24/2025 1:16:02 PM PST by srmanuel
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To: Red Badger

Hope Trump wins in the end, but the journey will be most entertaining however it shakes out.


4 posted on 02/24/2025 1:17:55 PM PST by buckalfa (They say nothing is impossible, yet I accomplish nothing every day.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“We’re probably going to find out that “That’s Everybody!”.”

Yep. Soon to be followed by DOGE asking “Who the hell is getting the other 50% of the paychecks?”


5 posted on 02/24/2025 1:22:26 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole.)
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Yup!


6 posted on 02/24/2025 1:24:10 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was not created to be a jobs program. )
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To: Red Badger

Excellent news.


7 posted on 02/24/2025 1:24:33 PM PST by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Or, we’re gonna find out that the IT people at these organizations don’t really know how to tell when people are logging in or checking email or getting onto MS teams.

I’m a federal civil service worker in the department of defense (not at the Pentagon). At one point I was told that several of my people hadn’t logged in for months. I absolutely knew that this wasn’t true because those people had been on teams meetings with me that day and previous days and weeks prior. When I called our IT people and leadership on this all I got was radio silence.


8 posted on 02/24/2025 1:24:47 PM PST by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“”Soon to be followed by DOGE asking “Who the hell is getting the other 50% of the paychecks?””

Besides the grift, democRATS just love buying votes, especially buying votes with other people’s money.


9 posted on 02/24/2025 1:25:02 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: JayGalt

They must not be necessary......................


10 posted on 02/24/2025 1:25:20 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: srmanuel

That was certainly an early and significant FedGov FAFO moment!


11 posted on 02/24/2025 1:25:25 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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Cool! Sounds like a whole bunch of them just fired themselves.


12 posted on 02/24/2025 1:25:51 PM PST by FLT-bird
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This is great. Federal slackers are self deporting. Just stop paying them.


13 posted on 02/24/2025 1:26:42 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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Doesn’t seem like the hardest issue around. Each manager makes a list of their direct reports, checks off which ones are AWOL, submits that list to HR, IT with copy to their manager. Task done. HR puts all those people on unpaid leave and IT suspends all access to everything. HR then proceeds with termination after whatever the required wait time is.

If they finally do show up to work prior to that, reinstatement could happen if management deems on a case by case basis it is warranted. However, a major red flag is dropped in their personnel file preventing all further advancement, reprimand, consoled that one further issue and they will be gone.

Goodness, the government could make the task of breathing or walking seem difficult.


14 posted on 02/24/2025 1:33:06 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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wow! are literally half of our federal employees non existant???


15 posted on 02/24/2025 1:33:06 PM PST by MNDude
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Thats what it looks like


16 posted on 02/24/2025 1:37:02 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: MNDude

That is what could be really crazy.
Meaning IF we find out that there are thousands of Federal workers that don’t actually exist and have been getting paid for years.


17 posted on 02/24/2025 1:38:15 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: DeplorablePaul

These employees are reinforcing the public’s view of them as slackers. These ingrates are way overpaid, receive extremely generous benefits and retirement and get too much time off, yet they don’t feel any obligation to report to their place of work. The country now has a clear understanding of this and realizes that their tax dollars are being wasted on the arrogant shirkers.

They are in for a rude awakening if they should ever try to work in the real world.


18 posted on 02/24/2025 1:38:15 PM PST by Starboard
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Hm-m-m ... approx 21,000 salaries @ $110,000 / year is about $2.31 billion tax dollars that will find better use elsewhere. And that doesn’t include the additional outlays for pensions, health care, etc.


19 posted on 02/24/2025 1:41:11 PM PST by ByteMercenary (Election 2020 was theft by mail.)
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To: Red Badger

How much payroll fraud is out there?


20 posted on 02/24/2025 1:52:49 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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