"Career public servants": THE PARTY IS OVER

[Concerned American]

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.

FYI. Benjamin Franklin, September 17, 1787: A Republic, If You Can Keep It

 

[Lisa558]

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

First, the employer in this case is the taxpayer, and we know the government is bloated. We need to scale back bigly.

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.

Time commuting isn’t productive, but the taxpayer isn’t paying for it. And as far as your other little examples, they pale in comparison to the amount of goofing off and personal errands done when working at home.

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.

We don’t need any audit. Let’s just get everyone back to the office, see that they put in full days, and then we will see how many we can do without. We are $35T…..no, 36T in debt.

 

[Lisa558]

FYI. Benjamin Franklin, September 17, 1787: A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Now that Trump is back in office, I am optimistic that we CAN keep it. If O’Harris had won, that would have been the end. (And that was the plan.)

 

[22lcidw]

Helping and cheering a billionaire pissing on your own blue collar working friend is hilarious. Yes, thank you Trump.

If a government employee is of arrogance, ignorance and obnoxiousness, they can go screw themselves. This would end many issues of their reputations within their organizations and outside with civilians.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

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

Yes, I can start at 8 or 9 if I wanted but I get up early (now that I'm old). I manage my time myself, I'm trusted to work 40 hours.

Before Covid I drove an hour into the office in Scottsdale, about one hour each way. We were sometimes allowed to work from home, as a perk, but it was not fully sanction at the company level, it was discretionary by the department manager. I could usually WFH one day every week or two typically, especially when things were quieter like after a big project had been delivered and settled down.

Many other staff were not allowed to WFH people who manned phones and enquiries and so on, so there was a political aspect to this, their jobs were deemed unsuitable for WFH and even though programming is fine as WFH it wasn't really endorsed because of these other departments.

Then Covid came.

My wife has a chronic genetic lung condition that was a huge worry once Covid started to make itself known, she was at risk. and I did not want her to get infected (this was months before any vaccines appeared) so I asked my boss for permission to work fully from home until there was some assurance that she'd be safe.

He said to wait a few days as there was likely going to be an announcement and there was. All staff (well virtually all) were told to WFH full time. Us software people were fine, working remote is very well supported for programmers, we've been doing it on and off for years.

This became the norm, I visited the office once again in early 2022 then never again, about a year ago the entire building was abandoned as the lease expired so now there is no Arizona office so even if someone wanted to return to office working it would be a huge deal and cost a lot, the money saved by losing large office buildings is considerable.

Another upside for the company and staff is that people can literally relocate to anywhere in the US and remain employed. This means we have staff spanning all US time zones and that's a help because customers are spread across all time zones too.

 

[August West]

Government employees hace cushy jobs and very little responsibility.

How many years did you work for the govt.?
zero

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

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?

Baseless claims of inefficiency by dingbats like Musk who want to justify their own positions, are just hot air. Only an independent audit by a professional auditing firm can reveal real problems, but there's no audit going on here, it's a joke and you're a fool if you believe otherwise.

You don't cut staff before an audit you cut them after it, well in the real world anyway.

Musk as the overseer of all this too, is a joke, the man was accused of fraud and the charges dropped after he agreed to step down as chairman of Tesla, we have an accused fraudster reporting to a convicted fraudster supposedly investigating fraud, its like watching the three stooges Trump, Vance and Musk and this is why we are the laughing stock of every other developed country.

This is what the Trump administration looks like to other countries, this is what they see:

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

First, the employer in this case is the taxpayer, and we know the government is bloated. We need to scale back bigly.

You didn't answer my question so fuck you, I'm done replying to you.

Time commuting isn’t productive, but the taxpayer isn’t paying for it. And as far as your other little examples, they pale in comparison to the amount of goofing off and personal errands done when working at home.


We don’t need any audit. Let’s just get everyone back to the office, see that they put in full days, and then we will see how many we can do without. We are $35T…..no, 36T in debt.

 

[Lisa558]

You didn't answer my question so fuck you, I'm done replying to you.

Another nasty Democrat.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Another nasty Democrat.

Another uneducated trumpanzee who's afraid of answering simple questions.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

There is some hope:

Political guru predicts Trump White House will COLLAPSE within 30 days

The veteran Democratic strategist said that Trump's popularity is sinking, and he believes the administration will implode from a lack of public support.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[debbiedowner]

When will they do it to soldiers in the military?

Thunderbirds, Blue Angels, 3-130 gunships that gave a courtesy flyover yesterday on Navarre beach Mardi Gras parade and the AF Band who played in the Mardi Gras parade yesterday, plus the money that has gone into doge operations. Lot's of money spent here

When doge is all said and done, since they are now hiring thousands back they have fired in each agency, will have not saved much at all.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Proof that (as I've been telling people for years) Elon Musk has no credibility as a leader, maybe he'll try to fire Kash Patel next week

Kash Patel tells FBI staff to ignore Elon Musk request to list their achievements

Agency reportedly seeking guidance from DoJ as Musk’s demand sparks confusion across key government agencies

www.theguardian.com

 

[AsherN]

The pandemic is the blueprint of what happens when everyone leaves the office and works from home instead. You're supposed to learn from history, not repeat it.

Yes, and companies have learned that they don't need all that expensive sq footage. That employees will actually put in more hours if they don't have to fight a commute. My life is better because when I need a mental break, instead of going to the coffee machine and chatting a coworker for 10 minutes, I can start a load of laundry, one less task to do at night or on the weekend.

 

[Rambunctious]

Lets face it everyone... Biden grew government like a drunken sailor... He went nuts trying to gain more voters and donators via public labor unions... its as if he knew or someone knew he really didn't win in 2020 and was desperate for student votes illegal alien votes and labor unions... it got so bad that three people were doing the same job in some cases...
So don't cry for these people... besides when the economy climbs out of Biden's recession there will be jobs everywhere...

 

[AsherN]

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

I go in the office once or twice a week, my choice. I have a routine. I'm up at 0700 and start my routine. by 0730 I'm showered, dressed and ready to start my day. I want my work day to be completely done by 1730.

The days I WFH, I log in at 0730 and work until 1730. The days I go to the office, I leave the house at 0730, get to the office around 0815. I will work until 1645 and start my commute home. I put in at least 90 minutes more from home.

 

[Lisa558]

Another uneducated trumpanzee who's afraid of answering simple questions.

Fuck you.

 

[Lisa558]

Yes, and companies have learned that they don't need all that expensive sq footage. That employees will actually put in more hours if they don't have to fight a commute. My life is better because when I need a mental break, instead of going to the coffee machine and chatting a coworker for 10 minutes, I can start a load of laundry, one less task to do at night or on the weekend.

We aren’t talking about private companies. They can do what they want, since the salaries are paid by the owners.

We are talking about government workers, who are paid by taxpayers. We are paying WAY too many workers, and many (if not most) are taking advantage of work-from-home because until now, they were getting away with it. We want them back in the office.

 

[Rambunctious]

Another uneducated trumpanzee who's afraid of answering simple questions.

OMG the hypocrisy is dripping off of you lib.... when Biden was in office you tards deflected lied and closed off any debate...

 

[Lisa558]

Yes, and companies have learned that they don't need all that expensive sq footage. That employees will actually put in more hours if they don't have to fight a commute. My life is better because when I need a mental break, instead of going to the coffee machine and chatting a coworker for 10 minutes, I can start a load of laundry, one less task to do at night or on the weekend.

And we don’t care that government workers have one less chore to do in the evening because they did it during the workday - not when we are paying them more than $200,000 a yeae. The govt workers have exploited this bigtime, and now it stops.