Do you think DOGE will eliminate remote policy?

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

I’m worried Trump continues to side with them re the visas and he would on this too ugh

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just focus on senior folks that are barely performing and push them out of the door. They are the most expensive and least productive.

Yes, but they're always quick to scream age discrimination. They know they won't be able to get a different job.

I mean after a while they should be judged on their performance. Every agency has more than 1/3rd folks as seniors that shouldn't be there and it looks like a welfare to me.

You're right, but who are those seniors' bosses? Other old people.

An independent assessment needs to happen and may be at the SESs level they need to see which 14/15s to keep if they are not performing or letting lower level non-performers go.

A number of those in the senior executive service are acting in the capacity of a 15 or 14. This isn't a performance issue, per se. It's a grade inflation issue likely due to salary bands and wanting to promote to keep staff (for a variety of reasons). Higher level work has been watered down. And, of course, this isn't across the board. There are SES, 14s, and 15s who do exceptionally complex work and are underpaid relative to that effort.

So, who watches the watchers?

[Anonymous]

Yes. All DCUM readers are highly productive WFH. Everyone else is middling and doing laundry, listening to Netflix movies, nursing babies while WFH.
Sorry but broad brush get into the office or get a new job.
Sandwich shops need the business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. All DCUM readers are highly productive WFH. Everyone else is middling and doing laundry, listening to Netflix movies, nursing babies while WFH.
Sorry but broad brush get into the office or get a new job.
Sandwich shops need the business.

whatever. I get most of my work done on my WFH days. In the office, people are talking to me all day long about non-work things. I can hear people snoozing in their cubicles. Also there's only one sandwich shop in my fed building. At $10 a sandwich (no drink/side), I bring my own lunch when I come to work.

[Anonymous]

Donald Trump is a real estate mogul by trade.

I would be extremely surprised if protecting the corporate real estate industry isn’t a personal top priority. He grew up in that world. His father raised him with money from it.

What logical reason would he have to care about WFH. His voters who cared about the price of eggs are unlikely in jobs that can WFH anyway so his base wont care about it’s abolishment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. All DCUM readers are highly productive WFH. Everyone else is middling and doing laundry, listening to Netflix movies, nursing babies while WFH.
Sorry but broad brush get into the office or get a new job.
Sandwich shops need the business.

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. All DCUM readers are highly productive WFH. Everyone else is middling and doing laundry, listening to Netflix movies, nursing babies while WFH.
Sorry but broad brush get into the office or get a new job.
Sandwich shops need the business.

It’s really crazy how on one thread people are freaking out about RTO because they watch their kids from 7-9 and 2-8 and thus work from 9-2 and how on another thread on RTO everyone working from home hits every work goal and works unpaid OT every day and only leaves their desk to throw in laundry or make a sandwich.

[Anonymous]

We aren’t worried about RTO but 8-6 hours is untenable and we accepted lower paying Fed jobs for the 40 hour work week

[Anonymous]

My die hard Full Remote WFH forever employee went to NYC this week. Jokingly I said what if Broadway just showed a Zoom version of Play, the restaurant just had you pick up a frozen dinner to heat up at your hotel. At hotel you did on line check in and you had to clean your own toilets and make your own beds.

She was like that is outrageous. Funny how she does not want anyone working from home when it is stuff she wants, but she is not willing to go to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My die hard Full Remote WFH forever employee went to NYC this week. Jokingly I said what if Broadway just showed a Zoom version of Play, the restaurant just had you pick up a frozen dinner to heat up at your hotel. At hotel you did on line check in and you had to clean your own toilets and make your own beds.

She was like that is outrageous. Funny how she does not want anyone working from home when it is stuff she wants, but she is not willing to go to work.

What a lame fake story

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My die hard Full Remote WFH forever employee went to NYC this week. Jokingly I said what if Broadway just showed a Zoom version of Play, the restaurant just had you pick up a frozen dinner to heat up at your hotel. At hotel you did on line check in and you had to clean your own toilets and make your own beds.

She was like that is outrageous. Funny how she does not want anyone working from home when it is stuff she wants, but she is not willing to go to work.

Did everyone clap after?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My die hard Full Remote WFH forever employee went to NYC this week. Jokingly I said what if Broadway just showed a Zoom version of Play, the restaurant just had you pick up a frozen dinner to heat up at your hotel. At hotel you did on line check in and you had to clean your own toilets and make your own beds.

She was like that is outrageous. Funny how she does not want anyone working from home when it is stuff she wants, but she is not willing to go to work.

Funny how you think portable knowledge work is the same thing as cleaning a toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We aren’t worried about RTO but 8-6 hours is untenable and we accepted lower paying Fed jobs for the 40 hour work week

You accepted a Fed job for the security.

Hours worked are 40 whether your commute is 2 min or 2 hours.
I left the house at 8 to get to Fed job by 9. Left at 5:30, got home 6:30. That's 40 worked hours even if I was out of the house longer.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I think the feds will have to go back to the office like most of the working world.