Yup, exactly. It’s ridiculous what these government employees get away with.You are not wrong.....My wife was one of those till she retired.....At least she did not leave the house but there was a lot of "clicking" to stay logged-in while she made lunch or cleaned the house.
LOL....I just asked her about it and she said she that at the time she could pull-up who was still logged in and most of her "Homer" co-workers would be MIA for a couple hours at a time.....Not a word was said about it.
Even Rand Paul stood on the floor of the Senate and lamented how DC looked like a ghost town long after .gov employees should have been back. They are still gone in my wife's old department.
And did you know they can go on vacation, tell their boss they will “work“ from the vacation spot, and don’t take annual leave? I know people who have gone away to ski spots, beach vacations, you name it. They log on in the morning, run out for a dip in the ocean or a couple hours on the slopes, then log back in for a couple of hours in the afternoon.
They don’t claim annual leave because they will be paid for it when they leave government - usually at retirement.