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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

+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.

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But now you can collaborate with your do workers more effectively [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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