No Toilet Paper and No Privacy: Returning to the Office, Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/politics/federal-workers-return-to-office.html

https://archive.ph/Q6NJ1

No Toilet Paper and No Privacy: Returning to the Office, Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos
President Trump has described his new in-office requirement as a way to ensure workers are doing their jobs. He sees potentially leading more employees to quit as an added benefit.
By Eileen Sullivan
March 31, 2025

For some federal employees, returning to the office has meant an expansion of their duties to include cleaning toilets and taking out the trash. For others, it has been commuting to a federal building only to continue doing their work through videoconferencing.

Some showed up at the office just to be sent home. Others showed up early and had nowhere to sit. Some employees with the Federal Aviation Administration returned to an office where lead had been detected in the water. And spending freezes have meant a shortage of toilet paper in some buildings.

Federal workers have been returning to offices in stages since President Trump issued an order to do so right after being sworn in. He has described the requirement as a way to ensure that workers are actually doing their jobs while believing that it could have the added benefit of leading more government employees to quit.

“We think a very substantial number of people will not show up to work, and therefore our government will get smaller and more efficient,” Mr. Trump said.

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[newdeal2]

1. By design

Treat the workers like shit and get them to quit.

[Doodley]

2. "substantial number of people will not show up to work, and therefore our government will get smaller and more efficent"

Trump must be a moron to think that people not showing up makes anything more efficient. A substantial number of air traffic controllers not showing up, does that make it more efficient? Front line, public-facing government service providers not showing up, does that make it more efficient or does it mean long waits to get any service?

This isn't Twitter, Musk says he made it more efficient by firing people, but the result was taking away any self-regulation and letting it become a sewer of hate.

[Skittles]

4. I think he means people who CAN work from home

he's betting on a lot of people quitting because they want jobs where they can WFH

essentially repukes are making it so no one will want to do a Fed job

[Skittles]

3. all the talent will drain away

only pukes need apply - who the fuck wants to work in a career where they are trashed any time a repuke "wins"