Outrageous: 94% of Feds Work From Home

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Most all managers are worthless. Pathetic. That's why they're managers.

You really have a complex about working, don't you? Bitter is not a way to go through your later years.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I spoke to someone at FEMA and she said she was working remote. Then I heard kids crying in the background.....

So? What is the significance? People would often hear my dog barking in the other room when I worked from home. They could also often hear my wife's voice in the background as she worked online. We only overlapped about an hour for work and there was no other way to do it. When I worked in the office, there was a dull roar from the 50 other people in the room.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

They usually know alot less than the guys actually doing the labor. A lot lot lot less. They are easily not needed. Can em.

You should see a psychiatrist about that problem.

 

[JohnDB]

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.

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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.
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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.
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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.

Most work anymore is done by computer that connects to a network. (Paperless) You can do the same work from home w/o much fuss.
If you removed the maintenance staff and security staff from the 6% you end up with 1% that actually shows up to an office building.

The remaining 1% is there to scan the mail that comes in from people who can't email documents by certified copy. Fax machines don't use paper anymore either.

 

[rightwinger]

They all were fired or resigned.

Mike Pence was not fired
Others resigned because they objected to Trumps excesses

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Mike Pence was not fired
Others resigned because they objected to Trumps excesses

Mike Pence was fired. Is he the Vice President elect? Like it or not, Trump basically fired him after January 6th.

 

[rightwinger]

Mike Pence was fired. Is he the Vice President elect? Like it or not, Trump basically fired him after January 6th.

Mike Pence completed his term

On Jan 6 he performed his duties as VP and certified the election of Joe Biden

 

[Doc7505]

yea i worked 33 years in the Post Office it was kind of hard to deliver the mail from my living room.....we had no one working at home....

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No one has pointed out Postal workers. They work hard delivering the mail. Have you ever seen what a postman goes through delivering mail in a high rise 200 apartment house First its got to be sorted then inserted into mail box. Some of these mail bags for apartments an be back breaking.
No Id rather have a rural route than a route in a Blue Plantation City.

 

[JohnDB]

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No one has pointed out Postal workers. They work hard delivering the mail. Have you ever seen what a postman goes through delivering mail in a high rise 200 apartment house First its got to be sorted then inserted into mail box. Some of these mail bags for apartments an be back breaking.
No Id rather have a rural route than a route in a Blue Plantation City.

They have plastic boxes these days....and a dolley.

 

[Doc7505]

They have plastic boxes these days....and a dolley.

~~~~~~B.F.D.

 

[AsherN]

Why should they deny it? It came from a govt. report.


The number of eligible employees who participated in telework increased in fiscal year 2021. Federal agencies reported that, of the 47 percent of Federal employees who were eligible for routine or situational telework, 94 percent participated this year, a four percent increase from fiscal year 2020.

Fiscal Year 2021 Status of Telework in the Federal ... - OPM​

So the title says 94% of Federal employees work from home.
Now, it's 94% of the 47% who are eligible participate.
What does participate mean? It means the do some work from home. Anything from a day a month to 5 days a week. Not all different than the private sector.

I work in a company of about 50 employees. 2 of them work in the office 4 days a week. 2 more 2 days a week. 4 do once a week. We never see the rest.

 

[AsherN]

94% of the 47% that are eligible work from home...

They participate in a WfH program. Noting says how often they do so.

 

[Rigby5]

If many workers from home so what? All the power to them. Big offices are not necessary and any employer with 2 brain cells to rub together saves money by downsizing office space to the very least amount needed.

Wrong.
I have worked from home and seem many others do it, and the result is always less than half the output.
Offices are uncomfortable, create a better work environment. You feel compelled to work. Which is not the case at home. Not to mention you do not have the same resources at home.

 

[Harry Dresden]

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No one has pointed out Postal workers. They work hard delivering the mail. Have you ever seen what a postman goes through delivering mail in a high rise 200 apartment house First its got to be sorted then inserted into mail box. Some of these mail bags for apartments an be back breaking.
No Id rather have a rural route than a route in a Blue Plantation City.

yea i have.....and you wouldnt want a rural route over a city route....its a whole different ball game...

 

[Lisa558]

So the title says 94% of Federal employees work from home.
Now, it's 94% of the 47% who are eligible participate.
What does participate mean? It means the do some work from home. Anything from a day a month to 5 days a week. Not all different than the private sector.

I work in a company of about 50 employees. 2 of them work in the office 4 days a week. 2 more 2 days a week. 4 do once a week. We never see the rest.

Private companies are different. If the employer decides he wants to allow it, that’s his decision. If the ones at home goof off half the day, that’s also his decision to allow it. If he has hired 10 people for what five could do, and wasting money on salaries, that’s his decision too.

In the case of the federal government, we the employer don’t want to pay for a bloated workforce or those who goof off - which of course some do - and want them all back in the office.

 

[initforme]

Like most a upper management in a corporation who get paid to goof off?

 

[Lisa558]

Like most an upper management in a corporation who get paid to goof off?

If the corporation allows it, that’s up to them. Private business.

 

[initforme]

If the corporation allows it, that’s up to them. Private business.

True. The corporate model is a poor model.

 

[Lisa558]

So when all these “teleworkers” supposed to report back to duty and stsrt working full weeks? I’d be fine with Jan 21. They will have been given TWO full months’ notice.

 

[Lisa558]

True. The corporate model is a poor model.

And don’t forget - the government is losing money hand over first, and every day we add to the debt.