"Career public servants": THE PARTY IS OVER

[Concerned American]

And while we're at it, we need to abolish the unions in DC.

No federal job should have a union.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

No federal job should have a union.

We live in a democracy, unions are democratic, now fuck off to some fascist crap hole and leaves us in peace you bigoted hate filled little dunce.

 

[80zephyr]

is it?.....do the workers in govt jobs get treated better than any other workers?...if you say yes then you have never worked for the govt.....

My wife worked for the USDA, and she was treated better than the private sector.

 

[Concerned American]

We live in a democracy

WRONG. Recite the pledge of allegiance and pay attention to what it says. The US is a REPUBLIC.

 

[Concerned American]

We live in a democracy, unions are democratic, now fuck off to some fascist crap hole and leaves us in peace you bigoted hate filled little dunce.

The racist is projecting again.

 

[Lisa558]

We live in a democracy, unions are democratic, now fuck off to some fascist crap hole and leaves us in peace you bigoted hate filled little dunce.

Taxpayers shouldn’t have to bear the cost of funding government unions.

 

[80zephyr]

We're not discussing the pandemic, you keep bringing this up. It's like saying wearing T-shirts a bad idea because we wore them once during a storm and got soaked and caught a cold, its stupid so stop it.

The only reason anyone can make the sweeping claim that working from home is always a bad idea, is someone who's jealous that they can't work from home in their particular job. I really haven't seen a single robust argument about why its so bad.

Artists and composers work from home, creative jobs often benefit hugely from people working from home.

My job is designing, writing and testing software, being able to do that from home is a huge boost to the quality and productivity.

I'm at my desk at 7am every day, I never get interrupted as I used to in my "cube", I never get distracted by noise and conversations and so on outside my cube.

My commute is to walk thirty feet from my kitchen to my casita where I have an office. I'm unaffected by weather, unaffected by traffic accidents, unaffected by road closures.

This is a no-brainer and only people who have no-brain are complaining.

You might be one of the rare individuals that can commit to self control. Most cannot.

It’s true that widespread studies based on standard measures of efficiency have found that fully remote employees are 10% to 20% less productive than those working on company premises. Challenges related to communications, coordination and self-motivation may be factors in the decline.

Remote workers actually aren't more productive. Will bosses finally call them back in this year?

New research seems to support the idea that working from home leads to less productivity. But are employers measuring remote work results by the right metrics?

www.latimes.com

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

WRONG. Recite the pledge of allegiance and pay attention to what it says. The US is a REPUBLIC.

RIGHT. The US is a representative democracy, what do you think all that voting is for you turd.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Taxpayers shouldn’t have to bear the cost of funding government unions.

Unions are paid by employee contributions, by those who want to be members of the union.

 

[Concerned American]

RIGHT. The US is a representative democracy, what do you think all that voting is for you turd.

...and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands. Don't they teach English comprehension in the UK--clearly they aren't much on vocabulary.

 

[Polishprince]

And here we go. The freak show continues:

Why is Government Efficiency considered a "freak show" to the Hate-Trump coalition?

Are they just opposed to efficiency and eliminating waste, because the millions of little Trumpamaniacs are in favor of it?

 

[Lisa558]

In my office I have a huge library, lots of technology books, I have a big white glass dry wipe board, I have my own printer a very large curved monitor and lots of desk space.

When I worked in a "cube" my desk space was tiny, I had to use a cheap keyboard and small monitor and there was no dry wipe board near me and no technical library.

I never have to wait for a bathroom, I can get a coffee any time I like, I can go to my fridge to get lunch and so I never need a lunch break where I have to go out and drive to a sandwich store and so on.

I can have my music playing quietly here but at work I'd have to use headphones.

So you’re saying it’s better for the EMPLOYEE to get to “work from home”? Duh. What counts is what’s better for the people paying the emoloyees’ salaries - and in government, that would be the taxpayer.

Overall, people are more productive when they show up for work - and don’t take time out to load the dishwasher, do a load of laundry, get in an afternoon walk, or even take a weekly tennis lesson.

The government is overstaffed. Once everyone is back in the office full-time, and working full days, we will see how much.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

You might be one of the rare individuals that can commit to self control. Most cannot.

It’s true that widespread studies based on standard measures of efficiency have found that fully remote employees are 10% to 20% less productive than those working on company premises. Challenges related to communications, coordination and self-motivation may be factors in the decline.

Remote workers actually aren't more productive. Will bosses finally call them back in this year?

New research seems to support the idea that working from home leads to less productivity. But are employers measuring remote work results by the right metrics?

www.latimes.com

From that very article you cited:

But the new research that showed lower productivity by full-time remote workers also found that those on a hybrid schedule — some days at home and some on site — were about as productive as those in the office full time. And there’s some evidence that companies offering greater flexibility to workers may achieve better financial results.

My position is that there are professions that are done better when the person works from home, not all, but some and software development is one of those. You can look at different industries and see that the productivity is higher at home for some professions.

 

[Lisa558]

Unions are paid by employee contributions, by those who want to be members of the union.

You’re so ignorant. We have full-time employees at six-figure salaries who are working solely for the unions. How do you not know that?!

 

[80zephyr]

From that very article you cited:



My position is that there are professions that are done better when the person works from home, not all, but some and software development is one of those. You can look at different industries and see that the productivity is higher at home for some professions.

Do you work from home every week?

 

[sartre play]

WRONG. Recite the pledge of allegiance and pay attention to what it says. The US is a REPUBLIC.

JUST words, you like the word REPUBLIC we like the word DEMOCRATIC.
CHANGING the tone solves NONE of our problems.
UNITED, would be my best choice word for what America needs.
And that's my OPINION. PS Flag word change was in,1955.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

So you’re saying it’s better for the EMPLOYEE to get to “work from home”? Duh. What counts is what’s better for the people paying the emoloyees’ salaries - and in government, that would be the taxpayer.

Do you believe it is impossible for something to be good for an employee and good for the employer?

Overall, people are more productive when they show up for work - and don’t take time out to load the dishwasher, do a load of laundry, get in an afternoon walk, or even take a weekly tennis lesson.

Time spent commuting is not productive time, time spent chatting over a coffee by the water cooler is not productive time, time spent driving to/from the sandwich store for lunch is not productive time.

The government is overstaffed. Once everyone is back in the office full-time, and working full days, we will see how much.

We'll never see how much unless we perform a proper audit, all we have is an inept venture capitalist making stuff up as he goes along and he's so inept that even Kash Patel has told all FBI staff to ignore Musk's silly emails, that's the kind of ineptitude that now characterizes this failing administration.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Do you work from home every week?

Yes.

 

[Donald H]

China, Russia, and the Brics countries have good reason to celebrate the dysfunction!

 

[80zephyr]

Yes.

You say you start at 7. Is that a 40 hour week schedule?