Is DOGE making it easier for Feds to get things done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was preventing managers from getting rid of the dead weight?

There are so many posts that talk about poor workers , but why is it so hard to get rid of people?

Is the work that subjective?

Are there no goals to measure against?

I really don’t understand

First of all the managers didn’t make the decisions. DOGE did. Second you really think they took the time to figure out who to fire? They eliminated entire offices so they could get around the normal rif rules.

[Anonymous]

It’s so destructive. No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much easier - thank you!!!!!!!!

I’m gonna need some details on how it’s easier.

[Anonymous]

Not DOGE per se, but my new agency head has made several changes that I agree with. I'm not a fan of this administration at all, so I refuse to say the name of my agency.

[Anonymous]

NO. Added a lot of red tape and removed support contracts that make it easier to get things done. Unfortunately if they've done anything reflective of their name, it's unknown to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DOGE's purpose was to distract everyone so that a tax cut for billionaires can be passed. Nothing else.

Well, this might be true. I think the real purpose is to have the population of educated people not trust the FDA or vaccines or the CDC and they’re warning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not DOGE per se, but my new agency head has made several changes that I agree with. I'm not a fan of this administration at all, so I refuse to say the name of my agency.

^^^^ things that have not happened

[Anonymous]

Their stupidity is keeping us from issuing our grants - we've basically turned into the useless wastes of space they always thought we were. Thanks DOGE!

[Anonymous]

Are you joking? No. It's chaos and destruction. The literal opposite of efficiency in every way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fed, but seems that with all the cutting, that DOGE may be doing the dirty work that other managers did not want to deal with.

Is DOGE helping anyone?

Obvious troll is obvious.

[Anonymous]

I thought this post was a joke. No, none of this is making anything more efficient and less things are ‘getting done’ at my agency. Just a lot of meetings about new rules and lack of space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not at all. Just the constant cycle of firings of necessary employees, error-ridden communications and the intent to intent to demean every civil servant.

+1. I mean, my manager loves tracking down and reviewing 12 people’s 5 things list every week to make sure there are no forbidden words and no sensitive info, PII, PHI, etc about as much as I like writing it.

It’s been super awesome that the 12 people on our team of 40 who took VERA/VSIP (basically everyone eligible to jump ship did) were the program leaders and mentors who had the deep institutional knowledge that we could least afford to lose. Oh, and two managers left with no backfill, so now it’s 24 5 things lists for my manager to track down and not 12.

We all love the never ending cycle of all hands calls and meetings where upper managers tell us they were not informed in advance and have no clue what’s going on every time another vague, insulting, impossible to understand or implement DOGE email drop. That’s another hour zero actual work got done x300 people.

Dealing with panicked members of the public who want answers on how changes to our programs will be implemented when we have been given zero guidance and are asking the same questions they are is a real morale booster.

Everyone knows that constant obsession about who will be fired when does wonders for productivity.

Reenacting the Hunger Games opening dash for resources when the signups for hoteling goes live each week and knowing that 1/2 the office will snag a cubicle and the other half will be in a dozen people to a conference room with no extra monitor, keyboard or mouse, electric outlets, decent chairs, etc— but at least we do get an insane amount of noise is a great team building exercise (could only RTO twice a week because all our leased space was given up two years ago, so hoteling it is).

Being given the opportunity to prove that our COVID vaccines / prior infections do not, in fact provide current immunity, in said cramped conference rooms allows us to provide valuable data for NIH… you know, scratch that as of yesterday.

There is nothing an employee likes more than when the head of HR publicly says that his mission is to traumatize you so that you hate going to work.

WTAF OP? Of course it’s mass chaos leading to miserable workers, constant confusion, low morale and tanked productivity. That’s a feature, not a bug. The actual stated goal DOGE is to make it so impossible to do our jobs that we quit, so they don’t have to pay severance. And DOGE is doing exactly what it said it would. Making Feds miserable and breaking government. So you can go to bed with a smile on your face, knowing that you are owning the Feds.

Of course, someday you might need a cancer drug, or clean drinking water or to file for social security. And realize that the federal government actually did things in the before times. But, I’m sure you factored that into the equation before declaring victory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. We now have frequent computer system outages and abysmal morale.

What is with this? I thought these were the tech gurus? Our case management software was very stable and I had experienced zero downtime over the last year. Until last week. It’s now crashed 4 times in the last six business days, and taken everything with it. Approximately 9 hours of everyone sitting around doing nothing times several hundred people. And the auto backup isn’t working. Like 1995 when you didn’t hit save every 1/2 hour. This degree of screwup must be intentional, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not at all. Just the constant cycle of firings of necessary employees, error-ridden communications and the intent to intent to demean every civil servant.

+1. I mean, my manager loves tracking down and reviewing 12 people’s 5 things list every week to make sure there are no forbidden words and no sensitive info, PII, PHI, etc about as much as I like writing it.

It’s been super awesome that the 12 people on our team of 40 who took VERA/VSIP (basically everyone eligible to jump ship did) were the program leaders and mentors who had the deep institutional knowledge that we could least afford to lose. Oh, and two managers left with no backfill, so now it’s 24 5 things lists for my manager to track down and not 12.

We all love the never ending cycle of all hands calls and meetings where upper managers tell us they were not informed in advance and have no clue what’s going on every time another vague, insulting, impossible to understand or implement DOGE email drop. That’s another hour zero actual work got done x300 people.

Dealing with panicked members of the public who want answers on how changes to our programs will be implemented when we have been given zero guidance and are asking the same questions they are is a real morale booster.

Everyone knows that constant obsession about who will be fired when does wonders for productivity.

Reenacting the Hunger Games opening dash for resources when the signups for hoteling goes live each week and knowing that 1/2 the office will snag a cubicle and the other half will be in a dozen people to a conference room with no extra monitor, keyboard or mouse, electric outlets, decent chairs, etc— but at least we do get an insane amount of noise is a great team building exercise (could only RTO twice a week because all our leased space was given up two years ago, so hoteling it is).

Being given the opportunity to prove that our COVID vaccines / prior infections do not, in fact provide current immunity, in said cramped conference rooms allows us to provide valuable data for NIH… you know, scratch that as of yesterday.

There is nothing an employee likes more than when the head of HR publicly says that his mission is to traumatize you so that you hate going to work.

WTAF OP? Of course it’s mass chaos leading to miserable workers, constant confusion, low morale and tanked productivity. That’s a feature, not a bug. The actual stated goal DOGE is to make it so impossible to do our jobs that we quit, so they don’t have to pay severance. And DOGE is doing exactly what it said it would. Making Feds miserable and breaking government. So you can go to bed with a smile on your face, knowing that you are owning the Feds.

Of course, someday you might need a cancer drug, or clean drinking water or to file for social security. And realize that the federal government actually did things in the before times. But, I’m sure you factored that into the equation before declaring victory.

But now you can collaborate with your do workers more effectively

[Anonymous]

Everything is 100000x worse.

I expect it will be so bad that they'll have to end the agency and suggest the work be privately done. That's what they wanted and they'll get it. Expect it won't turn out the way they think it will for Americans. Private companies will charge 3-4x for the same work and it will be worse in terms of outcomes. Hey, if they want to double my salary in theong run, then go for it.