Posted on 02/25/2025 4:11:13 PM PST by DoodleBob
I heard today 1 million replied to the Elon email request
Information technology management requires 99,000 workers?
How many of those are working social media?
USPS was self-sustaining via counter sales, then Congress mandated that it fund employee liabilities 15 years in advance.
those million that replied are probably the only ones that actually exist or don’t have an attitude that stinks.
Nuke the rest.
There is a LOT of eye-popping info here.
“The most highly educated federal agency, among those with at least 1,000 employees, isn’t NASA or the National Science Foundation, but the U.S. Agency for International Development. Two-thirds of its 4,675 workers hold a master’s degree, doctorate or other advanced degree.”
What are they up to?
Thanks for posting. Great charts. Really lays it all out there.
My USPS experience has varied, depending upon WHERE is the Post Office.
When I lived in suburban NJ and worked in NYC, in general the counter staff treated me like a war criminal.
Elsewhere in the Northeast, they’ve been at times great though one woman was one of the angriest people I ever met.
In rural areas, the postal employees were, in general, good.
My mailman has ALWAYS been pleasant.
Thank you. Given what’s happening, I hope this will be a helpful, fact-based reference.
It’s always a challenge when posting stuff like this on FR. Too little, you’re accused of being a blog pimp etc. Too much, they beat you up for a long post.
I wrote earlier that Musk should have disabled everyone's email ID and given them 72 hours to call their help desk to have their email restored. That bypasses them having to disclose what they did last week and still achieves the goal of seeing how many emails belong to non-existent people.
As you said, people with bad attitudes might not have responded to Musk, hoping instead to be part of an inevitable class action suit when President Trump follows through with their dismissals.
Making them take action to restore their email IDs is completely different.
-PJ
Thanks for posting.;
Good info for those of us who are mere taxpayers.
Looks like contractors are not included?
As for the USPS and the decline in its total number of workers:
First-Class Mail
In 2023, the USPS handled 46 billion pieces of First-Class Mail, which includes letters, postcards, and large envelopes.
Between 2008 and 2023, the volume of First-Class Mail decreased by 50%.
Market Dominant Mail
In 2023, the USPS handled 109 billion pieces of Market Dominant mail.
Between 2008 and 2023, the volume of Market Dominant mail decreased by 46%.
Of course there was a decrease in USPS employees.
Anyone else notice the Department of Veterans Affairs has more employees than any other single department?
I understand its mission is to serve ALL living veterans, as needed, and that means mutliple living generations of veterans. But, should it require 450K plus employees? Or are organization operations and required procedures really been modernized to the greatest efficiency? One wonders.
So they could “borrow” it
Parts of Fed.gov are probably like the Ukraine Army
A unit may have enough troops for a battalion, but the officers tell the government to give them salaries and resources for a brigade
Let’s also add up all the workers who collect a check from government funded organizations.
While we are at it throw in people who owe their jobs via government regulations or policies. So let’s include a good chunk of public school teachers, union officials, probably millions of private code and regulatory agencies/consultants/inspectors/auditors.
Green scam jobs. As we now know charities and so called NGOs who are government funded.
If you’re employed think of all the jobs at your company to satisfy the EEOC, EPA, OSHA, IRS, etc.
“Higher education” - maybe a majority owe their existence to the governemt.
Then let’s round up all the not-working people who live on monthly government checks.
How many people owe their livelihood to the government? It’s staggering.
Should we move on to state county city township?
Information technology management requires 99,000 workers?
How many of those are working social media?
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Elon’s team needs to run a program pointing out how much porn is watched during work.
“Let’s also add up all the workers who collect a check from government funded organizations.”
I agree. There are a lot of pass-through dollars. I am especially leery of money going to NGOs.
On a lighter note, why so much for veteran affairs? Can’t veterans have affairs on their own?
Oh, so all those IT guys were needed to manage the computers that were serving all that porn around the agency.
Still, it seems like a lot.
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