I can’t get up that early unless it’s for hunting or fishing and even then.
Getting up to milk cows did me in at early age…so I became a carpenter instead.
What?
You don’t think government workers are tax payers???
It’s a rare thing for me to be abed later than that. I’ve had to be up early since boot camp, nearlly 50 years ago, except for those times I was on an overnight shift.
Your first sentence is an argument for being sure before you release anyone.
The second sentence is not. The government doesn’t benefit from receiving back a portion of wasted payroll where the work is not needed.
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You some early dudes. 5 o clock for me. Get up, get my stuff ready for work and a pop tart. Get the kid up around 5:40, GF is ready at that point so I go ahead and start her car for her so it’s nice and warm when she gets in it. And I start mine too and turn on the heated seats. At 6 we bounce out, she takes the kid to daycare and we both head off the work at the same time since our schedules are somewhat similar. 7:15 to 3:30 for her as a teacher and mine is 7 to 5 selling parts at a car dealership.
She got that remote start ■■■■ so I can crank hers from inside. My car is a manual so I actually have to go out there and press the clutch in to start it.
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This is easy, if they don’t…
I’d be running 45 minutes late getting up then.
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I love rolling out of bed at 7:30, shower, pick up my coffee and start at 8am. If necessary will start earlier but tend to log off about 5pm and if I have a lot going on get back online about 7pm.
When I am out on PTO the laptop stays closed and my work phone is turned off.
lets not forget we’re talking about government employees who didn’t do ■■■■ when they were in the office.
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Nope. Getting ready to come to work.
Without going into detail this is exactly what is happening to a large federal building near me. It used to house a few hundred employees of multiple federal agencies plus a post office. Nowadays on any given day it houses about 30 federal employees and, under a huge entry awning, half the homeless population…
It’s quite prime real estate and it’s being sold to the private sector. The previous occupant workers won’t be “returning to the office”. It’ll be gone. I don’t know where the administration folks think they will return “to”.
(And the building is such an ugly 1970’s brutalist monstrosity that the buyer will likely tear it down and start over)
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Their paychecks are much higher than the taxes they pay out of said paycheck.
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My little Yorkie gets me up at about 4:15. Just me and him for a few hours before the wife rolls out of bed. A couple cups of coffee with breakfast, scan headlines in the local paper and sit in front my keyboard.
I take a brief afternoon nap and I’m in bed by 8pm.
Ahh, the life of a retiree. 
Depending on the job of course, wouldn’t it be easier to do just what is required of you if you work remotely?
None of this comes as a surprise to me. Productivity does, but if you have solid employees, you should be good. I worked in an office between the ages of 18-27. Still living at home, that was the richest I’ve ever been. I would have done anything to only come in 1 day a week. The office environment is miserable. The lights, the gloom, overall bad atmosphere.
Now I work in a booth. By myself. At night. The darkness and quiet is very peaceful. Do you see what office work did to me?
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When I was starting out, oh so many years ago, I used to enjoy going into the office. I started out with a real office. Within a couple of years, they did away with offices except for management and went with office sized cubicles having 6-foot walls. Over time the cubicles got smaller and the walls shorter. And then the walls disappeared altogether.
By the time I was getting ready to retire, the concept of a private work area had long disappeared. When I came into the office (I was required to come in twice a week) I would have to find a station (basically a long table with several docking ports and phones) to park myself.
The atmosphere itself had completely morphed to accommodate the youngest generation. I felt like I was back in kindergarten. During my last year prior to retirement, I told management that I couldn’t do it anymore. They allowed me to work from home full time for my last year.
What was interesting, is that within my group we were scattered across the country, with a couple of group members in India. If I were to go into my old office building today, there would be no one from my group there. I was the last remaining person in my group at that office.
Finally something we agree on!
Spread the DC Jobs and Bureaucracy across the US. Let some of the lower population states get a share in the spending. Less population in DC will also drop the housing prices in the area and Va will probably turn back Red. Va was a solid Red state for years but the spending in DC and the DC Area population skewed the rest of the state and switched it Blue. Would love to see it flip conservative again.
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It’s because, outside of the military, everything the federal government does is sacrosanct and the thought of eliminating it is heresy. It’s a religion for them.
I had a remote start in a Manual Trans in Korea. I installed it myself. Not sure if they are still available, but they might be. It sounds kid of crazy, but is was safe when you actually consider the way it worked.
It had a specific shut down procedure for the Remote Start to work.
For you to start the car remotely, you had to exit the car running and close all doors (The module now knows the car is in Neutral) . You then hit the Shut Off button on the key fob which locks the doors and shuts down the vehicle. As long as a door was not opened, the vehicle would remote start at the next request. If you went out to get something and opened any door, the module would sense the door opening and would deactivate the system for remote starting unless you started the vehicle up and went through the Shut Down procedure again.
