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

[Anonymous]

The dead weight is all that will be left

[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?

Hahaha, that’s not how the cuts are going.

We’ve lost young, enthusiastic, energetic staff, while our age 70+ staff, who barely have a pulse, remain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope, just data Call after data Call after data call after data call.

Then can you explain to me why we need email? Or a network. Or servers

Like dude you don’t know what this shit is, you’re the smart one.

Haven’t had them deny one spending request yet. Just all bluster.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Hahaha, that’s not how the cuts are going.

We’ve lost young, enthusiastic, energetic staff, while our age 70+ staff, who barely have a pulse, remain.

Now that VERA's in play we're losing the actually good Genx upper management and older SMEs with institutional knowledge as well. I'm mid-career and a bit terrified of being the only person left trying to tape things together.

[Anonymous]

Looking at the RFPs or grants - nothing is coming out. No new spending. It feels like the US government is completely paralyzed.

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Well, I am a lawyer, and it looks like I’m about to be required to do helpdesk support because of dropped IT contracts…

So no?

[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?

Yes and the economy but republicans are too stupid to know that


Your dictator just again screwed up

[Anonymous]

Fresh faces and enthusiasm have been RIF'd. Dead wood and bad attitudes remain. If you call a government office, wait on hold and then the call gets lost, it's not an accident.

[Anonymous]

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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

Nope. My Team is national in scope, all from different sites, across the country and time zones. 1 other person is from my office. We go in on opposite days. I’m DMV. My manager is in Atlanta. All our meetings are 1-2 because it’s the only core hour we are all in. So, I go in to collaborate via Teams. I have a point of contact for facility specific issues. Besides that, they judge track badge in/ badge out and require me to show up. If I’m out, no one at my sote knows in advance or knows why. I go through my
Atlanta based manager.

Ratio is performative BS that makes me significantly less efficient.

[Anonymous]

We have lost at least 30 percent productivity. We are measuring and documenting it.

[Anonymous]

Don’t forget all the people who took the fork and are getting paid tax dollars to do…nothing and then retire. The notion that doge is saving us any money is absurd. It will take years to undo their damage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have lost at least 30 percent productivity. We are measuring and documenting it.

Good for you!

[Anonymous]

DOGE is now at my agency and it could be coincidence but suddenly our data lake is broken, networks down, and jobs are not running.
I don’t have a problem with the concept of DOGE but they appear to absolutely have no idea what they are doing and everything they touch turns to $hit. So, NO it is NOT more efficient.

[Anonymous]

Well, a lot of people now have a DGAF attitude and just click yes to my requests. So in that regard, yes.