What is the Republicans' whole "return to office" obsession?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The government has raised and lowered taxes

But has never spent less

Spending less than the year before is the key and needs to happen

10 percent cut to everything. Everybody contributes

Has the country ever grown smaller?

This. It's bizarre to think that government somehow needs to get smaller and smaller when the population keeps getting bigger, when technology keeps advancing, when new scams and threats and problems keep being invented or otherwise cropping up in society.

It's like thinking you should be making less and less money, as you add a fourth and fifth and sixth kid to your family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like the quality of most things have gone down the toilet since WFH was implemented on a large scale. I find sales people to be particularly useless, and many customer service departments. Sometimes some stupid dog is barking in the background, kids yelling etc. Same with work conference calls.

I appreciate that customer service departments now recruit WAH Americans vs. outsourcing to the call centers overseas even during our business hours. Background noise doesn't bother me as long as proper customer service is provided. Conference calls aren't worse than people sitting at a conference table in the office. I've done in office meetings most of my career and they suck and accomplish little. It's impossible to share multiple screens, overhead projection cannot be recorded for later viewing or review and you have to take notes in writing vs. saving info and links as you go along during virtual calls. You have to reserve a room in advance and logistics are more complicated especially during midday or early morning when people take their meals. You have a room of people staring dumfounded half asleep into a screen or daydreaming and still not paying attention in person.

[Anonymous]

Biden administration just tried to sneak in wfh protections for the next five years in cahoots with the public sector unions. Bunch of grifters and cheats that know their grift was coming to an end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biden administration just tried to sneak in wfh protections for the next five years in cahoots with the public sector unions. Bunch of grifters and cheats that know their grift was coming to an end.

My Agency has been remote work for > 15 years. And our bargaining units just closed on their new CBA that continues it. That's the VAST majority of our office. So suck it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biden administration just tried to sneak in wfh protections for the next five years in cahoots with the public sector unions. Bunch of grifters and cheats that know their grift was coming to an end.

You do know that most of us telecommuted / remote worked several days a week before COVID, in order to save taxpayer money on office space, right?

Republicans want the government to rent as much office space as possible,so RTO makes sense for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The government has raised and lowered taxes

But has never spent less

Spending less than the year before is the key and needs to happen

10 percent cut to everything. Everybody contributes

Has the country ever grown smaller?

This. It's bizarre to think that government somehow needs to get smaller and smaller when the population keeps getting bigger, when technology keeps advancing, when new scams and threats and problems keep being invented or otherwise cropping up in society.

It's like thinking you should be making less and less money, as you add a fourth and fifth and sixth kid to your family.

Organizations that are 36 trillion in debt are going to get a lot smaller. Lazy FED workers are the low hanging fruit and easy cuts. The tough stuff comes later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The government has raised and lowered taxes

But has never spent less

Spending less than the year before is the key and needs to happen

10 percent cut to everything. Everybody contributes

Has the country ever grown smaller?

This. It's bizarre to think that government somehow needs to get smaller and smaller when the population keeps getting bigger, when technology keeps advancing, when new scams and threats and problems keep being invented or otherwise cropping up in society.

It's like thinking you should be making less and less money, as you add a fourth and fifth and sixth kid to your family.

Organizations that are 36 trillion in debt are going to get a lot smaller. Lazy FED workers are the low hanging fruit and easy cuts. The tough stuff comes later.

What about the grifting contractors and BS nonprofit employees like you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The government has raised and lowered taxes

But has never spent less

Spending less than the year before is the key and needs to happen

10 percent cut to everything. Everybody contributes

Has the country ever grown smaller?

This. It's bizarre to think that government somehow needs to get smaller and smaller when the population keeps getting bigger, when technology keeps advancing, when new scams and threats and problems keep being invented or otherwise cropping up in society.

It's like thinking you should be making less and less money, as you add a fourth and fifth and sixth kid to your family.

Organizations that are 36 trillion in debt are going to get a lot smaller. Lazy FED workers are the low hanging fruit and easy cuts. The tough stuff comes later.

So that's why they want to fill up all the leased buildings we government doesn't need with RTO federal workers?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have friends who have federal employees and they have bragged about gaming the system. One works for the dept of labor and finishes her work in 2-3 hrs but collects a full days salary. The other comes into the office for two consecutive days at the end and beginning of the month and is wfh the rest of 60 days. Bunch of grifters that obviously are not looking forward to the doge crackdown and scrutiny.

If anything this will help the Dc office and local evonomy decimated by wfh.

Typical fake MAGA talking points.

Right..... Just like how Bowser has been begging the Biden administration to end WFH.

Post which agencies aren’t in the office??

Bargaining unit DMV area SSA

So one unit of SSA?! The other agencies have been back for a while. All this noise for one unit??

Bargaining unit as in unionized as in not managers. 42,000 Feds are SSA Bargaining Unit. Spread across the country. In the DMV, BU SSA gave up its leased space post COVID. Many DMV SSA employees have no space to return to And HQ is in Baltimore. The Commissioner just signed a new contract to preserve current telework levels for BU employees (again, Al 42,000j through 2029.

SSA is not the entire government. All the folks I know in government (5 different agencies) have been back in the office for over a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The government has raised and lowered taxes

But has never spent less

Spending less than the year before is the key and needs to happen

10 percent cut to everything. Everybody contributes

Has the country ever grown smaller?

This. It's bizarre to think that government somehow needs to get smaller and smaller when the population keeps getting bigger, when technology keeps advancing, when new scams and threats and problems keep being invented or otherwise cropping up in society.

It's like thinking you should be making less and less money, as you add a fourth and fifth and sixth kid to your family.

Organizations that are 36 trillion in debt are going to get a lot smaller. Lazy FED workers are the low hanging fruit and easy cuts. The tough stuff comes later.

What about the grifting contractors and BS nonprofit employees like you?

They suck also. The whole rot needs to exposed and taken out.

Of course every federal employee thinks they are above average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biden administration just tried to sneak in wfh protections for the next five years in cahoots with the public sector unions. Bunch of grifters and cheats that know their grift was coming to an end.

Give people like Trump and Biden that amount of power and this is what you get in return. Elections have consequences. The next time your party of choice suggests that some greedy elderly person is the best option we have for POTUS, tell them to shove off. Fool me once.... fool me twice.. fool me three times.. lesson learned yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Republicans think that Federal workers are lazy and don’t work, especially when they are at home. So they want to force them back to the office.

I’m a lifelong Dem and I’ve been with OPM for 18 years and I will tell you with 100% certainty that federal employees are lazy and don’t work.

Ha! OPM is uniquely blah - it is not an agency known as a beacon for the best and brightest or even the moderately energetic.

[Anonymous]

Boomers want younger feds to RTO so they can return to cornering us for hours on end with their personal war stories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biden administration just tried to sneak in wfh protections for the next five years in cahoots with the public sector unions. Bunch of grifters and cheats that know their grift was coming to an end.

The grift is real estate companies trying to milk the taxpayer for office space leases that no one wants or needs. If Republicans didn't overinvest in CRE there would be no RTO.

[Anonymous]

At some point these two things are going to come to a head.

Republicans say they want feds at their desks in federal offices.

Yet they are also trying to downsize and sell off federal offices.

Suppose the Trump administration says "Okay, as of February 1st, every federal employee has to be in the office" and on February 1st, every federal employee shows up and... there's nowhere near enough office space or desks for them...

Ooops.