Government operations aside, I'm of the opinion that working remotely should be the norm and the 40 hour work week is now stupid.
We're doing 3x the amount of productivity for less pay despite an insane amount of automation, and digitization, all so we can sell to the globe and consume.
It is amazing watching people defend 40+ hour work weeks, and being forced into the office (while the exec team does whatever the fuck it wants) almost for no other reason that it's become a habit "we've alwaysdone it this way".
I agree. I've worked remotely for quite a long time and have always been more productive. I also noticed one year I added less than 1000 miles on my car that year so I saved a TON of gas. Great benefit.
However - these government workers are not like us. Some of them actually have other jobs they work instead of doing their government work, so they are getting paid for 2 full-time jobs but only working the 1 non-government job.
I'd be ok with them having 2 or even 3 days for WFH, but those days would have to be the days they have the long meetings the govt likes to have. Make them attend on video, and sprinkle some random, unannounced meetings in as well to make sure they are actually at home working. The govt won't do that either, probably because the managers are also slacking off doing nothing.
I'm government and work frome home. I hate driving into work. I do 12 hrs days. No I'm no slouch, yeah I see others that suck, but the problem is, unless they automate a lot of things, they won't be able to get the cuts they want. It's just too big.
You can also say let's cut the military too, but most of yall would be up in arms, or the post office, or calling into the irs for "where's my refund check" I think alot of yall see way more state government workers slacking than you do the feds.
Should there be cuts, yes. But the politicians should get the cuts first, then have it all trickle down. Biggest budget spending is interest, health and defense. It ain't no fed employee standing around doing nothing.
Yeah yeah, you fed, and? I applied and got the job, private sector didn't hire me when I got got my finance and accounting degree so I went for government. Beats working minimum wage at some bs job just to get by. You do what you must. So yall want cuts but we have lives too and none of us want to have our jobs taken away and I'm sure there's a bunch of fed and state workers on the board as well.
A new world is coming and work culture will finally evolve beyond 1926.
Government operations aside, I'm of the opinion that working remotely should be the norm and the 40 hour work week is now stupid.
We're doing 3x the amount of productivity for less pay despite an insane amount of automation, and digitization, all so we can sell to the globe and consume.
It is amazing watching people defend 40+ hour work weeks, and being forced into the office (while the exec team does whatever the fuck it wants) almost for no other reason that it's become a habit "we've alwaysdone it this way".
I hope people wake up to that fact.
I agree. I've worked remotely for quite a long time and have always been more productive. I also noticed one year I added less than 1000 miles on my car that year so I saved a TON of gas. Great benefit.
However - these government workers are not like us. Some of them actually have other jobs they work instead of doing their government work, so they are getting paid for 2 full-time jobs but only working the 1 non-government job.
I'd be ok with them having 2 or even 3 days for WFH, but those days would have to be the days they have the long meetings the govt likes to have. Make them attend on video, and sprinkle some random, unannounced meetings in as well to make sure they are actually at home working. The govt won't do that either, probably because the managers are also slacking off doing nothing.
I'm government and work frome home. I hate driving into work. I do 12 hrs days. No I'm no slouch, yeah I see others that suck, but the problem is, unless they automate a lot of things, they won't be able to get the cuts they want. It's just too big.
You can also say let's cut the military too, but most of yall would be up in arms, or the post office, or calling into the irs for "where's my refund check" I think alot of yall see way more state government workers slacking than you do the feds.
Should there be cuts, yes. But the politicians should get the cuts first, then have it all trickle down. Biggest budget spending is interest, health and defense. It ain't no fed employee standing around doing nothing.
Yeah yeah, you fed, and? I applied and got the job, private sector didn't hire me when I got got my finance and accounting degree so I went for government. Beats working minimum wage at some bs job just to get by. You do what you must. So yall want cuts but we have lives too and none of us want to have our jobs taken away and I'm sure there's a bunch of fed and state workers on the board as well.
You won't really find many bleeding hearts for the over inflated government.
Jobs will be lost. That has to happen. It sucks. The government should not be a top employer. That is where we are though.
Social security administration alone is ridiculously inflated and that is one section.