Posted on 07/09/2022 11:50:18 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
Don’t forget the biggest boondoggle of all…Pension Benefits!
Great - 300 unnecessary freeloaders gone.
300 is really not that much across an entire state government.
I don’t know the intricacies of Virginia state government employment, but it’s rather rare for a career civil servant to abandon those sweet bennies and juicy pension that normally come with a state job. How many of the people who resigned actually were retirement eligible? How many are moving to the next level scam of disability retirement? How many were in their first few years of working, hated their jobs already and think the grass is greener elsewhere?
I’m mixed about telework, I think some jobs should be much more open to telework, but some jobs should absolutely have an office presence. I also believe a lot of people got paid to watch TV at home for two years because their jobs were so pointless that when removed from an office environment with the pointless meetings and checking in on other people, the entirety of a day’s work can be accomplished in an hour or less.
Cuts the amount of employees who will need to be laid off in the recession.
Odds are, they are slackers. But, I do hope that there was a review process so the few folk who can actually work better at home (it is always cheaper) are given a chance to justify. E.g., the productive ones who do not want to waste time listening to the slackers/bums who only whing on about things.
That also applies to manufacturing. You can’t take a lathe, drop tester, a forge or a plastic screw extruder home with you.
You can’t take your tractor trailer home with you. You can’t take the grocery store home with you. You can’t take your forklift home either.
Someone has to make and deliver all the stuff people have Door-Dashed to their home as they hide from the ‘rona.
Great idea!
I hope Pres Trump will implement similar policy ASAP.
Awesome news. Now lets get rid of the Congress critters who vote from home and don’t show up to work.
Don’t replace! A great way to reduce payroll.
Some jobs are appropriately done ‘from home.’ Some people are capable of working without supervision (from home.) Governor apparently doesn’t think there’s enough overlap to bother.
No one will notice if they fail to show up for work.
The downside is when you have to hire them back as contractors for 2x or 3x what they’d been getting paid.
I just moved to private industry and I’m suffering from a $180k raise. No way in hell I’d go back.
Office people think they are better than blue collar workers. Showing up for work is for the little people.
maybe it will be post office workers...they barely do the job so we won’t miss them.
Buh-bye.
None at all that I can think of. We need to encourage more to follow their lead.
Some of the best telework based employees are coders and customer service telephone personnel. Easy to measure work output and quality of work.
As far as I know, government employees don’t really work. They just take up space, shuffle papers and produce nothing of worth or value.
What’s the big deal?
The state of Virginia employs 68000 people. This is less than
1 in every two hundred employees
Detecting a trend, here...
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