Outrageous: 94% of Feds Work From Home

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Private companies are irrelevant. We taxpayers aren’t paying for the salaries of their employees, and they are not operating in the red.

Government competes for those same workers and must have job conditions similar to the private sector in order to hire the best people in their fields.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Wow. Look at how the government employees are fighting for their continued scam. Sorry, but why do feds think they are entitled to all sorts of special perks and benefits borne at the expense of other people?

And here’s another secret that few people know: when they did have to work like other people and actually…..shudder…..go to the office, they got a COMMUTER STIPEND if they took the Metro! Yup. In addition to their overpaid salaries, taxpayers were also paying them to get to work.

And here’s another another thing mosr don’t know: when it is reported that their COLA increase is 3.4%, or 5.5%, or whatever inflation is - the entire GS chart moves up. But in addition to that, the people in the first three steps of the range also move up a step every year, which is an additional raise. But shhhhhh……

That may be true for DC but there are a lot of workers who do not work there.

 

[rightwinger]

You do realize a lot of that is student loans, right? What are not loans, is usually funding sent to states, universities, colleges, and local schools. That's what most of their employees do is hand out money.

They also hand out money for special needs students and districts in poverty areas

 

[Lisa558]

Government competes for those same workers and must have job conditions similar to the private sector in order to hire the best people in their fields.

The best people? LOL. Is that why they couldn’t even develop a website in four years, and when they launched, it didn’t even work?

Stop flattering yourself. There are PLENTY of govt workers who couldn’t keep a job in the private industry. There used to be a saying that government was the employer of last resort.

 

[Mr Natural]

Wow!

Government work sounds pretty good!

Where do I sign up?

 

[Lisa558]

Wow!

Government work sounds pretty good!

Where do I sign up?

Too late. The scam is over.

I could have done it. I worked for a year in the government in a full-time job that really required only part-time hours. Half the time, we just tried to look busy.

I hated it. I didn’t go to college and grad school to hone my talent only to waste it away. I found a private industry job at just slightly lower, and nowhere near the benefits, but as I look back on my career, I’m satisfied that I contributed fully to society, working hard.

Most others chose to stick with the good deal they had. But now it’s over, and they will have to work full days, and at the office. The way they’re carrying on, you’d think they’re being asked to give up their firstborn.

 

[rightwinger]

Too late. The scam is over.

I could have done it. I worked for a year in the government in a full-time job that really required only part-time hours. Half the time, we just tried to look busy.

I hated it. I didn’t go to college and grad school to hone my talent only to waste it away. I found a private industry job at just slightly lower, and nowhere near the benefits, but as I look back on my career, I’m satisfied that I contributed fully to society, working hard.

Most others chose to stick with the good deal they had. But now it’s over, and they will have to work full days, and at the office. The way they’re carrying on, you’d think they’re being asked to give up their firstborn.

I found it to be very rewarding work and it was the best decision I ever made in my life.
As an Engineer, I worked on complex projects and travelled around the country working with major Defense Contractors.

Even as a newly hired Engineer, I worked with top level people at Defense Contaractors and high level military officers.
I helped develop military equipment that saved thousands of American lives

 

[Lisa558]

I found it to be very rewarding work and it was the best decision I ever made in my life.
As an Engineer, I worked on complex projects and travelled around the country working with major Defense Contractors.

Even as a newly hired Engineer, I worked with top level people at Defense Contaractors and high level military officers.
I helped develop military equipment that saved thousands of American lives

You were an engineer?! I’m surprised.

 

[TimFitz]

I'm sure there are more than 6% of jobs that actually have to be done away from home. Like people who work for federal parks, the FBI... can you imagine a raid being conducted and all the members are working from home?

That would require actually thinking about whether the BS being spread by right wing propoganda operatives makes any sense at all before one makes a fool of themselves by parroting it and making up their own BS in celebration of it.

But Trump types seldom do that.

 

[rightwinger]

You were an engineer?! I’m surprised.

Funny…when I graduated, the top engineers went to work for firms like RCA, Kodak, Xerox, IBM, Bell Labs
They looked at me and asked….why do you want to work for the Government?
30 years later, those companies were gone and I was still working for the Army.

Even as a young Engineer, I had much more responsibility and worked on more interesting projects than I would have gotten at RCA or Xerox

 

[Cellblock2429]

The Daily Wire is a hack propaganda outlet.

/—-/ Can you disprove any of it?

 

[Cellblock2429]

Outrageous: ​

94% of Feds Work From Home​

Outrageous: 94% of Feds Work From Home

hotair.com

5 Dec 2024 ~~ By David Strom

The federal workforce is the equivalent of the Soviet Nomenklatura.
The big difference between the Soviet bureaucracy and the US federal bureaucracy is that a much larger percentage of the federal workforce gets the special benefits that were reserved for top Communist Party members in the Soviet Union.
The Daily Wire's invaluable reporter, Luke Rosiak, reports on the sorry state of the federal workforce and on the Department of Government Efficiency's determination to reform a broken system.

​

~Snip~

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Bureaucrats are so entrenched that many choose not to work at all, finding creative ways to fool the few tools the government uses to ensure that absent employees are actually doing the work they are supposed to.
~Snip~
With a Republican trifecta--control over the House, the Senate, and the presidency, Republicans should be in a position to get rid of public employee unions, but don't count on this happening without a 60-vote majority in the Senate. Not only will Democrats fight and die on this hill--public employees are a key constituency of the Democrats and one of the secrets to their hold on big city politics--but chances are good that some Republicans will work to sabotage any attempt to rein in the power of government workers.
The federal government is the largest employer in the United States, and when you toss in state and local governments about 25 million are government employees, blowing away any employer in the private sector. That's a large chunk of the entire workforce and a powerful political constituency that is tied to other unions and nonprofits, all of whom would mobilize to protect their fellow union members.
~Snip~
Government is perhaps the only industry in which the bosses actively reward inefficiency. Every time a government agency fails to do its job well, Congress rewards it with a higher budget to address the issue. In the private sector, failure usually leads to restructuring; in government, failure leads to larger budgets.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy understand this fact very well. The real question is whether the elephantine bureaucracy can stubbornly wait them out and use inertia to blunt their efforts to prod the agencies into reform.
I don't know who to bet on. Will two of the smartest minds in America win the battle, or the agencies whose specialty is protecting its perks and pay?

Commentary:
David Strom uses the term "Work" when referring to the bureaucrats working from home.
It's no wonder that anything done by the gov't turns into a clusterfuck. We pay these bureaucrats to work every day like the rest of us, but they fail to appear much less do their jobs.
They need to get their fat asses to work!! This should be very easy for Elon and Vivek to get rid of 50% of these lazy asshats!!
Obviously most even when at their desks were not working according to reports of illegal use of federal property accessing Porn sites.

/—-/ I imagine they are also deducting their home office from their income tax.

 

[Mr Natural]

/—-/ I imagine they are also deducting their home office from their income tax.

Damn right!

 

[Lisa558]

Funny…when I graduated, the top engineers went to work for firms like RCA, Kodak, Xerox, IBM, Bell Labs
They looked at me and asked….why do you want to work for the Government?
30 years later, those companies were gone and I was still working for the Army.

Even as a young Engineer, I had much more responsibility and worked on more interesting projects than I would have gotten at RCA or Xerox

Certain professions, particularly in the STEM fields, are different. I will grant you that those jobs are more traditional in their demands from employees.

But there are tons of administrative, non-technical jobs in the government filled with liberal arts graduates, who are working part-time hours for full-time pay. The government is horribly over staffed.

It was even the year I worked there, and it’s gotten exponentially worse from there.

Anyway, I can tell you that the government can do with far fewer workers, and we the taxpayers have every right to require them to come into the office, and you can argue against it - but it doesn’t matter. Government workers will have to come into work, or lose their jobs.

 

[Lisa558]

/—-/ I imagine they are also deducting their home office from their income tax.

You’re right. I didn’t think of that!

They are certainly saving $500 in monthly commuting costs, which equates to almost $10,000 in salary, pre-tax.

I once took a job at about 10% less than I had been earning because it was within walking distance to my house. (A year later, I got a promotion and a 15% raise - and I STILL could walk to work.)

 

[Mr Natural]

Certain professions, particularly in the STEM fields, are different. I will grant you that those jobs are more traditional in their demands from employees.

But there are tons of administrative, non-technical jobs in the government filled with liberal arts graduates, who are working part-time hours for full-time pay. The government is horribly over staffed.

It was even the year I worked there, and it’s gotten exponentially worse from there.

Anyway, I can tell you that the government can do with far fewer workers, and we the taxpayers have every right to require them to come into the office, and you can argue against it - but it doesn’t matter. Government workers will have to come into work, or lose their jobs.

You do realize that envy is one of the seven deadlies.

 

[Lisa558]

You do realize that envy is one of the seven deadlines.

It’s not envy at all. I’m retired and the days of commuting are long past.

It’s wanting government to reduce expenses, given how we are operating at a massive deficit, adding to the debt every year.

 

[Mr Natural]

It’s not envy at all. I’m retired and the days of commuting are long past.

It’s wanting government to reduce expenses, given how we are operating at a massive deficit, adding to the debt every year.

Your posts wreak of envy

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Link

Link? Hell try it yourself. Go to any government agency and try to get something done or a question answered.

 

[Cellblock2429]

You’re right. I didn’t think of that!

They are certainly saving $500 in monthly commuting costs, which equates to almost $10,000 in salary, pre-tax.

I once took a job at about 10% less than I had been earning because it was within walking distance to my house. (A year later, I got a promotion and a 15% raise - and I STILL could walk to work.)

/——-/ Good for you.