Outrageous: 94% of Feds Work From Home

[Lisa558]

180,000 a year?....i was in the wrong agency....

That’s GS-14, step 10, with the DC locality pay adjustment.

Not bad for 20 hours of work a week.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Mike Pence completed his term

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

The fact remains that Trump did not keep him as his running mate. Maybe we could say he was laid off.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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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.

Technically, the postal service is not part of the US government, as they are not US government employees.

 

[Dragonlady]

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.

Still posting lies about federal employees. From the aptly named "hotair.com.

94% of federal employees do NOT work from home. You have to be a complete moron to keep believing the lies. Either than or someone in a troll farm in St. Petersburg.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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.

They have not been given any notice except in your dreams. Their bosses have informed them of nothing. Please try to control your emotions. It's making you look ridiculous.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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

How does the government ever make money?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

That’s GS-14, step 10, with the DC locality pay adjustment.

Not bad for 20 hours of work a week.

Move. Then you won't have that issue. Your neighbors will make less.

 

[initforme]

Move. Then you won't have that issue. Your neighbors will make less.

I second that.

 

[Lisa558]

Move. Then you won't have that issue. Your neighbors will make less.

You intentionally miss the point. The Governmwnt is operating at a deficit, and we have a bloated staff, working half-days from home. We need to get people to work full days, and consolidate positions.

NO WAY should a government worker earn $180,000 a year for working a few hours a day. Clearly, the workload is so sparse because work is being distributed among too many people.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You intentionally miss the point. The Governmwnt is operating at a deficit, and we have a bloated staff, working half-days from home. We need to get people to work full days, and consolidate positions.

NO WAY should a government worker earn $180,000 a year for working a few hours a day. Clearly, the workload is so sparse because work is being distributed among too many people.

I have news for you, ma'am. Your opinion of these people matters less to their employers than it does to the workers. If they can get the job done, who cares how long it takes, their value is determined by their supervisors.

I once worked as a trainer for AT&T. I was paid an hourly wage but considered salaried. I had schedule work hours from 8am to 5 pm everyday M-F, and that is how I got paid. My actual schedule was far different. Often, I stayed with my trainees on the night shift until 7 or 8pm. When we were not actively training, we held our department meetings over lunch and were out of the office for 2-3 hours. Looking back now, if I wasn't in the classroom or assisting trainees, there was zero reason for me to be in the office because all of my work was online. I basically went to work, sat at my computer in my office for 8 hours a day. I once panicked because a job interview for another position ran late, and I was worried I would get fired for being late, when I realized that no one knew I was gone, much less cared.

 

[initforme]

You intentionally miss the point. The Governmwnt is operating at a deficit, and we have a bloated staff, working half-days from home. We need to get people to work full days, and consolidate positions.

NO WAY should a government worker earn $180,000 a year for working a few hours a day. Clearly, the workload is so sparse because work is being distributed among too many people.

Although are we to judge how much an employee should make. We live in a nation where 60 thousand a year is barely scraping by pay. For that just showing up duffices

 

[Lisa558]

I have news for you, ma'am. Your opinion of these people matters less to their employers than it does to the workers. If they can get the job done, who cares how long it takes, their value is determined by their supervisors.

I once worked as a trainer for AT&T. I was paid an hourly wage but considered salaried. I had schedule work hours from 8am to 5 pm everyday M-F, and that is how I got paid. My actual schedule was far different. Often, I stayed with my trainees on the night shift until 7 or 8pm. When we were not actively training, we held our department meetings over lunch and were out of the office for 2-3 hours. Looking back now, if I wasn't in the classroom or assisting trainees, there was zero reason for me to be in the office because all of my work was online. I basically went to work, sat at my computer in my office for 8 hours a day. I once panicked because a job interview for another position ran late, and I was worried I would get fired for being late, when I realized that no one knew I was gone, much less cared.

You continue to miss the point.

And your experience with a private employer is irrelevant.

 

[Lisa558]

Although are we to judge how much an employee should make. We live in a nation where 60 thousand a year is barely scraping by pay. For that just showing up duffices

Yes, we can judge when taxpayers are funding government salaries of $180,000 under the pretense that it’s a full-time job, but there are in fact so many redundant employees that there’s only a few hours’ of work per day for each - AND the government is running at a massive deficit.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You continue to miss the point.

And your experience with a private employer is irrelevant.

It is the same in government if you are a salaried employee, which just about all are.

 

[initforme]

We have ceos making 300x what their employers make. So I'm not going to lose sleep over someone making 180000.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

We have ceos making 300x what their employers make. So I'm not going to lose sleep over someone making 180000.

Unless you purchase from those CEO’s companies you pay them nothing. You pay for government employees whether you need them or not.