re: Have you been to a govt office? And you think they actually do work from home????

Just looked it up.

Federal building leases—$6.1 Billion.

Federal employee salaries—$271 Billion.

It's not close, and I knew it wouldn't be.

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play X-box, write a poem, build a house of cards, stain a dining room table, mow your lawn, sell Girl Scout cookies with your kid around the neighborhood, groom the cat, paint your nails, get a massage, bake bread, get a hair cut, fly to Phenix, get a blowjob, make a gingerbread house, play solitaire, watch Breaking Bad, give the dog a bath, gamble online, work out at the gym, protest for or against Palestine down at the public square, eat lunch out with a friend, rent a car, paint a painting, create a fantasy football league, build a computer, write commentaries on every episode of Bewitched, watch 53 videos in a row on YouTube of people being arrested or cats gagging at smelly food, do some yoga, crochet a sweater, shave your pubic hair, trim the bushes, water your plants, roll dice for as long as it takes to come up snake eyes, have a taffy pull, pop popcorn and eat it while watching Scream on Netflix, go to the actual movies, panhandle down at the mall, cruise chicks downtown, go to a bar and get stinking drunk, ring and run your entire neighborhood one house at a time, learn to ride a unicycle, put up a dunk goal in your driveway and practice behind the head dunks, write and record an album, take a nap, color every page in a coloring book without stopping, watch a green banana to see how long it takes it to start turning brown, post on TigerDroppings, practice your amateur comedy routine, learn to moonwalk as well as Michael Jackson, play air guitar to the entire 1st side of Led Zeppelin II, make 10 TicTok videos a week, time how long it takes between the time that you drink five glasses of water and the time that it takes you to almost pee your pants, count every square on a roll of toilet paper, get out all your old high school yearbooks and wonder what everyone is doing now, oil every squeaky hinge in the house, see if you can get the neighbor's dog's attention and make him bark, flip a quarter 100 times and count how many times it came up heads vs tails, learn French, and much, much more.

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And why can't these be done in the office? You do realize that a lot of gov employees have offices and don't work in a cubicle don't you? These gov buildings are massive and there are a lot of them.

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Just looked it up.

Federal building leases—$6.1 Billion.

Federal employee salaries—$271 Billion.

It's not close, and I knew it wouldn't be.

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This comparison doesn't take into account. Maintenance costs, Utilities, Insurance, infrastructure etc.

Also you're comparing that to every gov employee salary.

Its not just the savings on buildings or the cost of the employee................................its all the money the "disperse" to the 1.5 million NGOs and other nonsense.

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My cousin is a lawyer for the department of energy.

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I am a retired contractor for the DOE. Retired in 2016.

Back in 94 we had a "touch your desk policy". As long as you came in and touched your desk in the morning and again in the afternoon, you were good. We also had a 2-drink limit for lunch.

Then long before Covid we had a work from home option via Citrix. Worked a "4/90" work schedule, if I remember correctly. Which is where we would be in the office for a 9-hour day, with every other Friday off. I took the "work" from home option on those alternate Fridays.

Log in, in the morning. Check a few emails throughout the day and all was good. Plus, every holiday you can imagine off with 5 weeks paid vacation and another 40 hours personal time on top of that. Usually cashed out most of that time.

I had worked over 10 years in the private sector before getting this sweet gig. Can't tell you how many times I showed up on MLK Day, because I had forgotten it was a holiday.

The stories I could tell of wasted taxpayer dollars, even way back then would curl your toes.

Most people on this project, had never worked a regular job and even with all of that, still found things to bitch about.

Hard to believe looking back.

ETA: And that was as a Contractor. When I started in 94 we had 1700 Operations and Maintenace employees and 500 Feds. When I left in 2016 after we had multiple RIF over the years and were down to about 700 Contractors and still had those 500 do nothing Feds, including the totally worthless SES guys.

This was the SPR.

Geaux DOGE!!!

I worked at the State Department and lasted a year and a half. The wasted tax dollars by sandbagging employees will infuriate you. We need DOGE very badly.

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quote: What about people that work in excel or photoshop all day, or any role where there is no face to face time? Sounds like they should be contract, not employees.

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Why? I’m guessing you work in service and can’t comprehend anything else?

I used to work for the Federal government. The amount of incompetent people who work in government offices is staggering.

DEI has been around for a lot longer than DEI has been a thing.

The amount of waste by the government is just unbelievable. If you knew how much money you paid in taxes to push pride month and black history month and the rest of that crap. You would freak out.

The number of "Hank Johnson/Sheila Jackson Lee" levels of intelligence you find in a federal office is so sad, you almost have to laugh to keep from crying. We used to say that 10% of workers carried the other 90%.

There are more unqualified people making six figures working for the federal government, than any other sector in America.

Once they get past their probationary period, they are nearly impossible to fire. A black woman is absolutely untouchable, no matter how incompetent or outrageous their behavior.

This whole work from home fiasco is only a big deal because of Elon’s experience with Twitter

I think non-government has issues as well. We live in a WFH era where the average lady can make a living selling average pictures and videos of herself to simps…