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[Seymour Flops]

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to make a push for an end to remote work across federal agencies as...

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Seriously?

CNN thinks people who get up at 5:30 hoping to beat traffic and don’t get back until 6:00 will be angry at the idea of federal workers having to come in at all ?

Clueless doesn’t begin to describe it.

Disrupting lives​

Some federal employees who have been allowed to work fully remotely say that forcing them to come back to the office would upend their lives – and not necessarily save the government as much money as one might expect.

“I can’t abandon this career,” one Library of Congress worker who lives in the Midwest told CNN. “I would be forced to move back to Washington, DC, even if it means separating my family.”

The worker, who requested anonymity to protect their job, had reported to their office in Washington, DC, five days a week for many years. But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the employee was allowed to work remotely and moved to the Midwest to be closer to family and save money – even though it meant taking a $12,000 pay cut. They have since bought a home and entered into a relationship.

Adding to the complications, the worker doesn’t have an office to return to since others within the Library of Congress have already moved into their former space.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to make a push for an end to remote work across federal agencies as...

amp.cnn.com

Seriously?

CNN thinks people who get up at 5:30 hoping to beat traffic and don’t get back until 6:00 will be angry at the idea of federal workers having to come in at all ?

Clueless doesn’t begin to describe it.

Disrupting lives​

Some federal employees who have been allowed to work fully remotely say that forcing them to come back to the office would upend their lives – and not necessarily save the government as much money as one might expect.

“I can’t abandon this career,” one Library of Congress worker who lives in the Midwest told CNN. “I would be forced to move back to Washington, DC, even if it means separating my family.”

The worker, who requested anonymity to protect their job, had reported to their office in Washington, DC, five days a week for many years. But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the employee was allowed to work remotely and moved to the Midwest to be closer to family and save money – even though it meant taking a $12,000 pay cut. They have since bought a home and entered into a relationship.

Adding to the complications, the worker doesn’t have an office to return to since others within the Library of Congress have already moved into their former space.

Overpaid coddled federal workers. It's ridiculous.

 

[mudwhistle]

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to make a push for an end to remote work across federal agencies as...

amp.cnn.com

Seriously?

CNN thinks people who get up at 5:30 hoping to beat traffic and don’t get back until 6:00 will be angry at the idea of federal workers having to come in at all ?

Clueless doesn’t begin to describe it.

Disrupting lives​

Some federal employees who have been allowed to work fully remotely say that forcing them to come back to the office would upend their lives – and not necessarily save the government as much money as one might expect.

“I can’t abandon this career,” one Library of Congress worker who lives in the Midwest told CNN. “I would be forced to move back to Washington, DC, even if it means separating my family.”

The worker, who requested anonymity to protect their job, had reported to their office in Washington, DC, five days a week for many years. But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the employee was allowed to work remotely and moved to the Midwest to be closer to family and save money – even though it meant taking a $12,000 pay cut. They have since bought a home and entered into a relationship.

Adding to the complications, the worker doesn’t have an office to return to since others within the Library of Congress have already moved into their former space.

They could always request a job where they live. People are constantly being moved around. Since my retirement my former boss has already had to move twice to take new jobs.

As long as they're a federal employee they have options.

 

[toobfreak]

CNN thinks people who get up at 5:30 hoping to beat traffic and don’t get back until 6:00 will be angry at the idea of federal workers having to come in at all ?

Hell, I used to get up at 4AM to leave at 5AM to arrive at work by 6AM to start work at 7AM, then worked through till 3PM (it was a solid 8 hour shift no breaks) to get home (with luck) around 4PM after driving 60 miles round trip.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Hell, I used to get up at 4AM to leave at 5AM to arrive at work by 6AM to start work at 7AM, then worked through till 3PM (it was a solid 8 hour shift no breaks) to get home (with luck) around 4PM after driving 60 miles round trip.

Thank you for your service!

Government workers should be thanking private sector workers every time they collect a paycheck.

 

[toobfreak]

Thank you for your service!
Government workers should be thanking private sector workers every time they collect a paycheck.

Ironically, at that time I was actually working for a Defense Department subcontractor making some
proprietary stuff for the military which keeps our boys safe and brings them home alive!

 

[mudwhistle]

Hell, I used to get up at 4AM to leave at 5AM to arrive at work by 6AM to start work at 7AM, then worked through till 3PM (it was a solid 8 hour shift no breaks) to get home (with luck) around 4PM after driving 60 miles round trip.

I did that for 18 years while working for the Dept of The Army at Ft Campbell, KY.

Every job, other than my first 2 years in the Navy, I had to drive to the ship or on post for 45 mins one way.

For 50 years it was always the same. I was never allowed to work from home.

However, if you have to travel thru a Democrat created shithole like NYC or Washington D.C., the best bet is to allow some of them to work from home as long as their production is up to standards. But they should have to come in to the office periodically to keep them from turning into couch potatoes.

 

[Thunk]

How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit

Yeah? That's the whole point of it!

 

[Winston]

CNN thinks people who get up at 5:30 hoping to beat traffic and don’t get back until 6:00 will be angry at the idea of federal workers having to come in at all ?

Who the flippin hell cares? I mean that one statement encapsulates this country's biggest problem. Everyone always worried about everyone else. It is beyond stupid. They get the job done, who cares.

Make them drive, they buy more gas, prices go up. They need office space, prices go up. They stop and get something to eat, prices go up. You idiots would cut off your nose to spite your face.

 

[Thunk]

forcing them to come back to the office would upend their lives

 

[1srelluc]

I for one look forward to .gov workers being cleared from the hinterlands where they work remote.

They will be facing a 2.5 - 3 hour commute unless they move back into NOtVA.

 

[Lisa558]

Hell, I used to get up at 4AM to leave at 5AM to arrive at work by 6AM to start work at 7AM, then worked through till 3PM (it was a solid 8 hour shift no breaks) to get home (with luck) around 4PM after driving 60 miles round trip.

That’s how it is for almost everyone who works a full-time job. I woke up at 6:00 am to leave the house at 7:00 am to arrive at work by 8:15 for an 8:30 a.m start. Worked until 5:30 (I did get lunch) and was thrilled if I got home by 6:30 pm. By the time I made, ate, and cleared dinner, it was 8 pm - enough time to relax for two hours in front of the TV before doing it all over the next day. Such is life.

Federal workers are so spoiled, and they’re clueless. Someone I know complained to me that there is no way she can keep her 1 pm tennis lesson twice a week! Do they even hear themselves?

 

[1srelluc]

The ones in my AO that still have to show-up for work in DC leave my AO starting at 0430.

One guy and a couple of co-workers who work for the US Park Service (GW Parkway area) have been doing it for 25 years or better. They get back at around 1800 unless it gonna snow then they just stay down there.

LOL.....They got to slinging hammocks to get some sleep during snowstorms as 16hr shifts are the norm then.

They were all hired at the same time and they all retire next year.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Who the flippin hell cares? I mean that one statement encapsulates this country's biggest problem. Everyone always worried about everyone else. It is beyond stupid. They get the job done, who cares.

Make them drive, they buy more gas, prices go up. They need office space, prices go up. They stop and get something to eat, prices go up. You idiots would cut off your nose to spite your face.

The point is not for them to drive to work. The point is for the more useless ones to self select for termination. Kind of like the illegals self deporting, let these guys self layoff.

Who cares? People that worked their asses off to pay the taxes for such nonsense care. I take it you are not one of them?

 

[justoffal]

Hell, I used to get up at 4AM to leave at 5AM to arrive at work by 6AM to start work at 7AM, then worked through till 3PM (it was a solid 8 hour shift no breaks) to get home (with luck) around 4PM after driving 60 miles round trip.

Yup

 

[Lisa558]

Who the flippin hell cares? I mean that one statement encapsulates this country's biggest problem. Everyone always worried about everyone else. It is beyond stupid. They get the job done, who cares.

Make them drive, they buy more gas, prices go up. They need office space, prices go up. They stop and get something to eat, prices go up. You idiots would cut off your nose to spite your face.

The point is that there is so much goofing off that if they have to come into work and put in a full 40 hours (that they’re being paid for), we could consolidate positions and reduce the workforce by at least 25%.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to make a push for an end to remote work across federal agencies as...

amp.cnn.com

Seriously?

CNN thinks people who get up at 5:30 hoping to beat traffic and don’t get back until 6:00 will be angry at the idea of federal workers having to come in at all ?

Clueless doesn’t begin to describe it.

Disrupting lives​

Some federal employees who have been allowed to work fully remotely say that forcing them to come back to the office would upend their lives – and not necessarily save the government as much money as one might expect.

“I can’t abandon this career,” one Library of Congress worker who lives in the Midwest told CNN. “I would be forced to move back to Washington, DC, even if it means separating my family.”

The worker, who requested anonymity to protect their job, had reported to their office in Washington, DC, five days a week for many years. But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the employee was allowed to work remotely and moved to the Midwest to be closer to family and save money – even though it meant taking a $12,000 pay cut. They have since bought a home and entered into a relationship.

Adding to the complications, the worker doesn’t have an office to return to since others within the Library of Congress have already moved into their former space.

They can just let her go.

 

[flewism]

Remote workers are less productive than on sight workers, a proven fact. That is why private for-profit companies are forcing employees back tom the office.

 

[flewism]

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to make a push for an end to remote work across federal agencies as...

amp.cnn.com

Seriously?

CNN thinks people who get up at 5:30 hoping to beat traffic and don’t get back until 6:00 will be angry at the idea of federal workers having to come in at all ?

Clueless doesn’t begin to describe it.

Disrupting lives​

Some federal employees who have been allowed to work fully remotely say that forcing them to come back to the office would upend their lives – and not necessarily save the government as much money as one might expect.

“I can’t abandon this career,” one Library of Congress worker who lives in the Midwest told CNN. “I would be forced to move back to Washington, DC, even if it means separating my family.”

The worker, who requested anonymity to protect their job, had reported to their office in Washington, DC, five days a week for many years. But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the employee was allowed to work remotely and moved to the Midwest to be closer to family and save money – even though it meant taking a $12,000 pay cut. They have since bought a home and entered into a relationship.

Adding to the complications, the worker doesn’t have an office to return to since others within the Library of Congress have already moved into their former space.

Then changes jobs, but they won't. They still need that federal pension and bennies.

They will just whine to everybody that will listen and publish anything how Trump is screwing them.

Duplicate in the private sector.

 

[Lisa558]

Then changes jobs, but they won't. They still need that federal pension and bennies.

They will just whine to everybody that will listen and publish anything how Trump is screwing them.

Duplicate in the private sector.

They’re clueless. I had fed workers complain to me that they “have to go in every single Wednesday!” when I was commuting into DC daily. I even knew one “worker” try to get out of her one-day-a-week drive by saying she was older and it was hard on her back to drive 30 minutes.