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Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

#11

The disruption is (part of) the point. Degrading the ability of government employees to do their jobs leads to greater inefficiency and more failure, which can then be pointed at to validate assertions that government isn't efficient and produces bad outcomes.

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Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

#12

The disruption is (part of) the point. Degrading the ability of government employees to do their jobs leads to greater inefficiency and more failure, which can then be pointed at to validate assertions that government isn't efficient and produces bad outcomes.

I think people didn’t want to believe it when they blamed DEI for the helicopter crash. The algebra looks like this: Privatize FAA = x + y Where x is any discovery or event related to the FAA, and where y is any red meat justification (dei|immigration|trans). There are many such equations: Strategic bitcoin reserve = x + y. Long two years, just going to leave this here. They will always find x and y to complete their…

> Long two years

Probably a lot longer than two at this rate :/.

Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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post #6

It kind of weird to have employees without an office. How could that happen?

The US-government is interspersed with oligarchs who want to diminish the ability of the government to actually act so that they can argue why everything should be privatized.

Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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post #6

It kind of weird to have employees without an office. How could that happen?

People that work "in the field" don't need a home office. I know a hydrologist who now has to go to the office, when much of his work is travelling around sampling groundwater. Another person I know works at OSHA, where she also travels to various work sites, but now has to go into the home office. Ridiculous waste of travel to have to go the the home office only to then leave to go somewhere else.

Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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post #6

It kind of weird to have employees without an office. How could that happen?

Everyone did this during COVID. Either got rid of office space or didn't add any to keep up with demand, because N% of staff was now remote.

I saw this at Google before I left in 2021. Doesn't surprise me that gov't has the same problem. Desks that could only be reserved/booked, not owned. Insufficient desks if everyone had to come back. They clearly didn't see WFH as temporary, even though RTO was clearly the long term plan.

Other bigcorps are the same from what I hear. Facilities got all messed up.

Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

#20

The disruption is (part of) the point. Degrading the ability of government employees to do their jobs leads to greater inefficiency and more failure, which can then be pointed at to validate assertions that government isn't efficient and produces bad outcomes.

Not sure if they even think they need to prove their assertions, after all Musk (same as his "boss"/BFF) has made the most outlandish claims without a shred of evidence (the "radical-left Marxist vipers" at USAID). To me it looks more like they are already 100% convinced that any work done by federal employees is completely worthless, so they can indiscriminately fire anyone they wish without doing any harm. Same for the attrition tactics - they tell people to return to the office and at the same time end leases for offices etc.
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