Posted on 02/24/2025 1:12:31 PM PST by Red Badger
In December last year, Sen. Joni Ernst tweeted, “On its way out the door, the Biden admin is locking in telework for 42,000 @SocialSecurity bureaucrats until AFTER President Trump leaves office! Unacceptable!”
It wasn’t only Social Security bureaucrats; it’s across the board.
President Trump was vilified for ordering people back to work or be fired. The union fought the order. As it happens, under 50% have returned to the office. They had a month to return.
As leader of the DOGE, Elon Musk said any workers who have not returned to the office will be placed on leave.
Musk posted a message on X to exemplify the seriousness of the order.
“Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received over a month’s warning,” Musk wrote.
“Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave.”
Musk was replying to a post from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who said no government agencies occupied half of their workspaces.
Last month, President Trump warned federal employees that they must return to prepandemic norms and return to their offices “or be terminated.”
Biden, or was it Obama, knew the employees weren’t doing their work, and Biden pushed for more of it to continue until after Trump left office. The administration did everything they could to sabotage the new administration.
The Administration Knew How Bad Telework Was in 2022 In June 2022, Patrick Hauf said that in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, a quarter of employees at the federal government’s top health agency failed to even check their emails as they worked remotely, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
About 25% of HHS employees didn’t even log in to get email, work files, video conference calls, and more.
Then-HHS chief of staff Brian Harrison commissioned the report. The documents were leaked by a whistleblower to the Functional Government Initiative and reviewed by the Free Beacon.
Biden was looking for ways to make telework permanent without checking to see if it was working. He was simply doing what his union donors wanted.
When they started to come back to work, only 10% showed up.
When Biden pushed for permanent telework policies, the Office of Management and Budget implemented new guidance: “Every effort will be made to maximize the use of remote work during widespread community transmission.”
There is more at Free Beacon.
Fake Republican Lisa Murkowski feels differently.
We’re probably going to find out that “That’s Everybody!”.
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.
Hope Trump wins in the end, but the journey will be most entertaining however it shakes out.
“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?”
Yup!
Excellent news.
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.
“”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.
They must not be necessary......................
That was certainly an early and significant FedGov FAFO moment!
Cool! Sounds like a whole bunch of them just fired themselves.
This is great. Federal slackers are self deporting. Just stop paying them.
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.
wow! are literally half of our federal employees non existant???
Thats what it looks like
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.
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.
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.
How much payroll fraud is out there?
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