Posted on 07/09/2022 11:50:18 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
Actually, I think it would be a splendid idea to have all of congress working from their district offices and attending meeting via Teams, Zoom or whatever.
At our company the accounting people can easily do their work from home, but most others cannot.
People must receive in goods used in R&D and manufacturing.
R&D has to do our work on qualified equipment which cannot be moved.
Distribution needs their warehouse.
Manufacturing needs their molding and machine tools, all qualified and cannot be moved.
Really about 10% of the people can work from home, the rest of us were there during the entire pandemic (we are medical manufacturing).
For me, I’d go nuts staying in the home by myself. Working in the lab is my happy place.
Stupid people; now they have to find REAL jobs.
Exactly....
I recall going by a gov. building and thru the window the lady was playing solitare on her computer at 3 in the afternoon....the guy with me said...”Your government dollars at work!”
Office people think they are better than blue collar workers. Showing up for work is for the little people.
If it can be done from home, it can be done from India.
It helped make for a reasonably well governed state, particularly compared to the one I am living now where the legislature is full time.
Nice.
Now, eliminate those positions permanently and you’re on to a good thing.
When I worked overseas, it was a combination of military, government civilians and contractors (I fell into that category.)
Some of the government civilians fit your description, but quite a few were diligent hard workers.
Correction: 300 Democrats
It should be called “NET-work” as the work is over the internet - not over telephone lines. But, “network” is taken and means something else.
Webwork would be accurate - working over the web instead of in person.
I give Youngkin an A+ for this move. Government is not private industry. And most government employees work at half the pace of private industry already - there is no motive for productivity.
One of my son’s is high-level IT pro with powerful international IT company. During Covid, they saw both productivity and profits go way up. NOT going back to office. Many IT companies saw this. Commercial office space is going to hit a big bust around the corner.
Government is different. If gov. employees work from home, I’ll bet productivity drops - a lot. Everyone is very laid-back in gov., never in a hurry to help anyone. Generalization? Perhaps. But true.
Sounds like winning to me.
I suspect you are correct. Although these days it is a bit easier to move vested pension contributions if one is young and the state offers portable and 401K style plans. It is a possibility that many of the people that resigned no longer live in the state.
“Some of the best engineers and logisticians I ever worked with are in the government, some of the worst too.”
I had the same experience with government lawyers.
They seemed to fall into two categories:
—Slackers that could never cut it in the private sector.
—Talented attorneys who refused to put in the eighty hour a week billable hours private sector grind and wanted a 9 to 5 job so they could spend time with their families.
It usually took only five minutes to figure out who was in what category.
;-)
They never should have been sent to work from home in the first place.
Now that the COVID fiasco is being exposed as a giant fraud, I have no sympathy for any government or corporate leader who insists that people who have been quite productive working from home for more than two years are suddenly so essential that they must return to work.
In the case of government, there are no real cost considerations here because it's not like a private sector company that's paying rent for office space. And I'd suggest that a lot of these moves are more political than practical -- and that they're driven by a desire to help the businesses in urban centers that were decimated when their normal weekday customers disappeared.
WGAF. These are all the things these government and corporate leaders should have thought about more than two years ago ... before they took it upon themselves to unilaterally decide that tens of millions of Americans had jobs that were "not essential."
I made some of the best decisions of my career in the early months of the COVID fiasco when I decided to shut down my office and relocate my business to another state in a property I own myself. I will never sign a commercial lease again.
OTOH, I have a classmate who worked for a Microsoft contractor in one of those big high rise office buildings in Seattle. He told me that they had shrunk from three floors to part of one for all the people working at home.
Bottom line is that some work is appropriate to do from home, some is not. It isn't so much different than education. Mature kids can do fine in an on-line environment. Grade schoolers need in person classes.
I only GAF because it helps paint the picture of the failing economy we all are living in. Yeah I take it personally that my 401K (thanks to yet another democrat take over) is too depressing to look at.
Personally I am thrilled that you took the chance to improve your own situation. Good on you. My husband worked from home long before Covid and continues to. I still feel bad for small business, who through no fault of their own, are devastated.
Let the office employee “beauty” contest begin again!!!
I think it's where they "tele" them that they gotta "work"!
YES!!! YES!!!
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