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You got to love this. The Pentagon just failed its 7th audit in a row. It has a budget of $1tr. And yet the cost savings team decides that penny pinching by making life harder for workers is where the real savings are to be found. Not the giant black hole of finance which is the military industrial complex.
How is working in the office saving the pentagon money?
You’ve gotta look at it from the perspective of a poor multibillionaire who desperately needs to buy his fifth superyatch so he can work his five CEO jobs remotely
Lol, how fast would he get merked for suggesting we cut Pentagon budget
Noooo shhhhh, we’re not supposed to talk about HOW THE PENTAGON HAS NEVER PASSED AN AUDIT. We’re supposed to be talking about the border, come on people, get it together.
So they’ll be coming in every day to their offices in Washington right?
…right?
It’s interesting they have multiple offices. Offices they’re already not in. If there was a time for a general strike it is forever ago.
Why? I think businesses should be left alone to decide.
They’re talking about federal employees
Let the managers decide, then.
If we won’t let logic or evidence do it, at least the people working directly with their teams and having to deal with them should do it.
“The Deep State appreciates your hard work, know how, and dedication. Come work for us from home and help stymie the Shallow State”
Then they aren’t really about efficiency, are they? When properly set up, WFH for office work is very effective and efficient.
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they already said it themselves: “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome” so no, it was never about efficiency. at all.
Don’t you love when someone from outside talks big shit pretending to know what YOUR job is and determining its not needed?
Almost like firing people based on code written didn’t backfire last time…
Read Project 2025, the plan is to get rid of federal employees and replace them with Trump loyalists.
But think of the billions of dollars of now unused office space. That’s horrible for real estate pricing, which is where many of these fucks are invested.
It’s not even a real estate issue sometimes. I worked in an office in an industrial facility- printing custom boxes. Everyone in an office job was on a hybrid schedule. No one’s job required them to be at the office. All conversations were by Slack, all meetings were by Zoom even if we were all in the office. They could have knocked down the office space and put in at least two more industrial printers. Considering how backed up we got around Christmas, that would have helped them.
Some of this is just old assholes who think people need to be in the office all the time so they can watch them or something. I don’t know.
At least they didn’t make me wear a tie.
My last job was highly similar. It honestly would have been more tolerable (the stress) if I’d just been able to work from home… I mean it’s not the sort of job you could pretend to do if not being monitored, it was metric-driven and triggered by customer contact… so what’s the point?
They said “we want to foster communication so having people in the office does that!” Umm my department is the only one in the company that is chained to our desk…? We can’t get up because we have to be available for contacts… and when people come by to talk to us, it’s usually a bad thing because they are interrupting actual real work. To top it off, our cube cell thing was right next to the door where everyone hung out waiting for each other to go to lunch, and because we were the only department that did external contact, they didn’t even think to shut the fuck up.
I’ll never willingly work in an office again. Not just because my disability makes commuting difficult sometimes, but because the environment is just -bad-.
Yeah, it’s miserable. I wasn’t kidding about the tie part either. Pretty much the only thing I liked about that job is that no one cared if I showed up in a T-shirt and sweatpants.
Dude, that’s been every job for 40 years.
It absolutely hasn’t from my own personal experience. Maybe it’s the industry you’re in, but I’m amazed you haven’t at least seen things like people on their lunch breaks outside or in a restaurant or whatever wearing a tie.
And billions of barrels of oil no longer being used and going to waste from all the travel not happening and extra heat needed.
Agreed 100%. I used to work a hybrid schedule and I was much more efficient when I was at home and could be both relaxed and not distracted or annoyed by coworkers.
They are about more efficiency in enriching themselves. Forcing people back into inefficient office-based work is just a tool to fire huge chunks of them while filtering for those easier exploited.
I agree! If Elon musk cannot show up to his offices at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, xAI, and Washington for 8 hours Monday-Friday, he should be fired without severance as CEO or co-chair of his government department.
Rules for thee, not for me.
At least they’re open about it: The entire point (according to them) is attrition. The actual plan is to make work for these people much more hostile so they quit.
Do you think our tax bills will drop if they succeed in forcing these million employees to quit?
They said they want to run the government like a business, and it looks like that’s what they’re pursuing. Unfortunately, that just means they’ll give us the lowest quality service at the highest possible price.
They said they want to run the government like a business,
In other words: terribly. They want to run the government terribly, exactly how business runs in this country.
At the expense of everyone for the benefit of the few.
They’ll spend all of their time changing the direction of what everyone is working on, hiring and firing people, and doing re-orgs…just like a real US business!
god I fucking hate these people. Pure fucking hatred.
“Psst, Doogees, wait until you guys see what Robbie has planned for stay-at-home.”
Fuck you both
Working from home for all jobs that it is compatible with should be a mandate to help lower the amount of gas necessary for commuting.
That hurts their profits
Yep but that means you’re not buying gas, which is a crime
Exactly! People died for this gas, don’t you care???
To help bring good jobs to rural locations, that’s how you convince people
And avoiding government inefficiency, exactly what their dept is actually supposed to be advising on
You think these ghouls don’t have tons of investments in oil.
So the government telling businesses how they have to operate is small government now?
Yes. Much more power to a small amount of rich morons and sycophants while firing most people actually doing government day-to-day work makes the government smaller…
I assume they mean all government positions. Hey look at that it’s in the headline
Oh we’re well beyond “small government” at this point.
So small it’ll fit right in your vagina.
A people elected government has a mandate to protect its people. Its real frightening to see that instead it announces adopt the worst business practises of private economy.
Unless Musk somehow copied himself several times, he is working remote for most of his companies each day.
But he is in a position to oppress others.
“Working”…
ROFL.
That’s hilarious. You actually think Musk works?
He probably considered designing the cyber truck to be work.
lol 😂
He got to pick the color of the paint.
What paint?
Only on his Diablo progression…
You know he’s a swiper anyway…
Sadly, tweeting is part of his job of owning Twitter.
naw. that’s him trying to cosplay as a human.
Trying, and failing… He really sucks at it
He does some work.
Don’t forget the shitty sub he designed
Guessing he designed the “Hyperloop” too. Ie. The single car wide tunnel that is prone to jame during car failure and it’s claustrophobic
Don’t forget the Hyper loop toxic sludge!
More “conceptualized” than actually designed.
Like Trump’s health plan! No wonder they are soul mates.
It did seem weird to me that Harris or any of the other democratic candidates campaigned on remote work. Seems like a smart pro-worker position to take that would directly impact a group she was trying to court: college educated professionals who skew male. Plus lower environmental impact, cheaper gas, more opportunities for working parents, etc.
The cynical reason I assume it wasn’t a talking point is because the 1% who directed the media conversation had a vested interest in return to pre-Covid status quo.
Campaigning on remote work doesn’t really resonate with blue collar workers, though.
They’ve got to be where the work actually is to do their job.
It’s only the “paper pushers” who have the provelege of working remotely.
