Jeff Zients throws a hissy fit in a memo about RTO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to Jeff Zients? I still don't know who that is or why I should care about him.

POTUS COS. I worked directly with him in a previous job. Always found him to be very respectful to and appreciative of staff. Also thought he was kind of attractive. He’s just playing politics with this memo. They need to be able to say in 2024 that feds are back on site otherwise the R’s will rip into them. I don’t think Zeints himself cares. He’s just following the boss’s orders.

All about nov 2024 isn’t it?

[Anonymous]

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/19/zients-biden-cabinet-return-to-office

he’s tantruming and feet stomping again

- being aggressive

- mad that feds aren’t back at desks

- wants personally tracked butts in seats

No one likes you except for bibi, Jeff!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.axios.com/2024/01/19/zients-biden-cabinet-return-to-office

he’s tantruming and feet stomping again

- being aggressive

- mad that feds aren’t back at desks

- wants personally tracked butts in seats

No one likes you except for bibi, Jeff!

God this guy is annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.axios.com/2024/01/19/zients-biden-cabinet-return-to-office

he’s tantruming and feet stomping again

- being aggressive

- mad that feds aren’t back at desks

- wants personally tracked butts in seats

No one likes you except for bibi, Jeff!

Jeff Zients is the White House Chief of Staff, it is his job to direct federal agencies in these types of administrative matters. I don’t agree with his directions, but he’s not tantruming, foot stomping, or being aggressive. He’s doing his job. This weird listed response is childish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.axios.com/2024/01/19/zients-biden-cabinet-return-to-office

he’s tantruming and feet stomping again

- being aggressive

- mad that feds aren’t back at desks

- wants personally tracked butts in seats

No one likes you except for bibi, Jeff!

Jeff Zients is the White House Chief of Staff, it is his job to direct federal agencies in these types of administrative matters. I don’t agree with his directions, but he’s not tantruming, foot stomping, or being aggressive. He’s doing his job. This weird listed response is childish.

No, anyone who has worked with him in this town knows he’s extra annoying, pushy, tetchy - just all the worst stereotypes

[Anonymous]

Good luck with that Jeff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.axios.com/2024/01/19/zients-biden-cabinet-return-to-office

he’s tantruming and feet stomping again

- being aggressive

- mad that feds aren’t back at desks

- wants personally tracked butts in seats

No one likes you except for bibi, Jeff!

Jeff Zients is the White House Chief of Staff, it is his job to direct federal agencies in these types of administrative matters. I don’t agree with his directions, but he’s not tantruming, foot stomping, or being aggressive. He’s doing his job. This weird listed response is childish.

Not really. Agencies are fully capable of handling their own administrative matters. It reminds me of an old story of James Baker (I think) when he refused to implement drug testing of Treasury employees during the Reagan administration. His response was “My employees have better things to do than piss in a cup.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.axios.com/2024/01/19/zients-biden-cabinet-return-to-office

he’s tantruming and feet stomping again

- being aggressive

- mad that feds aren’t back at desks

- wants personally tracked butts in seats

No one likes you except for bibi, Jeff!

Jeff Zients is the White House Chief of Staff, it is his job to direct federal agencies in these types of administrative matters. I don’t agree with his directions, but he’s not tantruming, foot stomping, or being aggressive. He’s doing his job. This weird listed response is childish.

and anti Semitic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.axios.com/2024/01/19/zients-biden-cabinet-return-to-office

he’s tantruming and feet stomping again

- being aggressive

- mad that feds aren’t back at desks

- wants personally tracked butts in seats

No one likes you except for bibi, Jeff!

Jeff Zients is the White House Chief of Staff, it is his job to direct federal agencies in these types of administrative matters. I don’t agree with his directions, but he’s not tantruming, foot stomping, or being aggressive. He’s doing his job. This weird listed response is childish.

Not really. Agencies are fully capable of handling their own administrative matters. It reminds me of an old story of James Baker (I think) when he refused to implement drug testing of Treasury employees during the Reagan administration. His response was “My employees have better things to do than piss in a cup.”

Agree. If I was a Senate confirmed Cabinet Secretary and I got an email like that “I expect you to personally monitor…” I’d ignore it at best

[Anonymous]

Zients sounds really bitter that he has to come into the office so much. He should transition to a job that allows more telework; I think he'd be a much happier person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.axios.com/2024/01/19/zients-biden-cabinet-return-to-office

he’s tantruming and feet stomping again

- being aggressive

- mad that feds aren’t back at desks

- wants personally tracked butts in seats

No one likes you except for bibi, Jeff!

Jeff Zients is the White House Chief of Staff, it is his job to direct federal agencies in these types of administrative matters. I don’t agree with his directions, but he’s not tantruming, foot stomping, or being aggressive. He’s doing his job. This weird listed response is childish.

No, anyone who has worked with him in this town knows he’s extra annoying, pushy, tetchy - just all the worst stereotypes

Stereotypes of what exactly? What is it about him that you dislike that’s a stereotype?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good luck with that Jeff.

There’s a reason he’s the White House chief of staff and you’re a troll making sarcastic comments on an anonymous blog. Check back over the next few months on how much RTO has increased in the federal workplace, my money is on Jeff.

[Anonymous]

The Hill has a nice summary of OPM's report on the productivity and retention gains under expanded telework: https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4405350-telework-is-actually-rescuing-the-federal-workforce-its-abolition-wont-be-pretty/

I understand the optics of the RTO push, but it seems pointless to me. You could put every Fed in person 5 days/week and it wouldn't make R-leaning voters vote for Biden. So we're going to give up massive gains in productivity, polution reduction, facility cost reduction, and employment rates of women and disabled people, for ... what, exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good luck with that Jeff.

There’s a reason he’s the White House chief of staff and you’re a troll making sarcastic comments on an anonymous blog. Check back over the next few months on how much RTO has increased in the federal workplace, my money is on Jeff.

Pffft. If RTO was a priority for the Admin, all it would take would take is an EO. No EO, no priority. Zients’ has zero authority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Hill has a nice summary of OPM's report on the productivity and retention gains under expanded telework: https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4405350-telework-is-actually-rescuing-the-federal-workforce-its-abolition-wont-be-pretty/

I understand the optics of the RTO push, but it seems pointless to me. You could put every Fed in person 5 days/week and it wouldn't make R-leaning voters vote for Biden. So we're going to give up massive gains in productivity, polution reduction, facility cost reduction, and employment rates of women and disabled people, for ... what, exactly?

Exactly. Many voters struggle to name the Vice President. They aren’t paying attention to federal employees’ work arrangements at all. Meanwhile, the government can’t compete on pay but now has a desirable benefit it can offer, and they seem hellbent on flushing it down the drain.