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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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!

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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.[/quote]

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.” [/quote]

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[/quote]

So you think that the people that are fireable at will by the president should ignore the direction of the president's chief of staff if they don't like them?  Does this apply to everything the WH sayas, or just RTO issues?[/quote]

For example: I think the President is evaluating Anthony Blinken based on things other than his RTO percentage. Effectively, at this point Blinken is not “fireable at will.” There would be a huge price to pay in Isr/Pal efforts for that, and RTO ain’t worth it—no matter what Jeff Zients says about it.[/quote]

Of course RTO isn't the only metric that leaders are evaluated on, State has also done a good job of getting more staff in the office and Blinken has been publicly supportive of the importance of in person diplomacy.

This debate is going to be funny this time next year if we have a change of administrations next year and the Heritage folks show up and fire anyone who isn't back all of the time. Imagine complaining about being back half time.[/quote]

State also has a high percentage of brown nosers and those who think they are future “movers and shakers”

Compared to other agencies

It’s easier getting people at state back in more

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