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[–] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 2 points 7 minutes ago

So, he and his cabinet will be working 8 hours a day at least 5 days a week in DC ? Can we get that in written please ?

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 23 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

why federal employees and not the private sector? oh right you want to fire half of the first group.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Well, also how would they mandate that for private companies?

[–] _chris@lemmy.world 3 points 24 minutes ago

Most CEOs are the worst kind of trump bootlickers. And musk too. My last job, CEO thought musk was a genius and had a list of his “rules for business” laminated on his desk.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 15 minutes ago

well it is enough for Elon to suggest it. that is the kind of presidency they will be running as is obvious from Disney, IBM etc going back to advertising with Xitter

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 46 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone wanna bet on how many days Trump is at Mar-a-Lago during his presidency?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago

Honestly, I'll be surprised if he spends more than a few days at the White House.

[–] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 96 points 9 hours ago

"Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome". this is and was always the reason american businesses were eager to force everybody back tp work. eat the rich.

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 176 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I agree! If Elon musk cannot show up to his offices at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, xAI, and Washington for 8 hours Monday-Friday, he should be fired without severance as CEO or co-chair of his government department.

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 20 points 4 hours ago

Rules for thee, not for me.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 141 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Unless Musk somehow copied himself several times, he is working remote for most of his companies each day.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 98 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

ROFL.

That's hilarious. You actually think Musk works?

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

He does some work.

Don't forget the shitty sub he designed

Guessing he designed the "Hyperloop" too. Ie. The single car wide tunnel that is prone to jame during car failure and it's claustrophobic

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Don’t forget the Hyper loop toxic sludge!

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

He probably considered designing the cyber truck to be work.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago

He got to pick the color of the paint.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly, tweeting is part of his job of owning Twitter.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago

naw. that's him trying to cosplay as a human.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Only on his Diablo progression...

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

You know he's a swiper anyway..

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 59 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

So the government telling businesses how they have to operate is small government now?

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Yes. Much more power to a small amount of rich morons and sycophants while firing most people actually doing government day-to-day work makes the government smaller...

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

So small it'll fit right in your vagina.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 27 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I assume they mean all government positions. Hey look at that it's in the headline

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Oh we're well beyond "small government" at this point.

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 98 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Then they aren't really about efficiency, are they? When properly set up, WFH for office work is very effective and efficient.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They are about more efficiency in enriching themselves. Forcing people back into inefficient office-based work is just a tool to fire huge chunks of them while filtering for those easier exploited.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

Agreed 100%. I used to work a hybrid schedule and I was much more efficient when I was at home and could be both relaxed and not distracted or annoyed by coworkers.

[–] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 28 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

they already said it themselves: "Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome" so no, it was never about efficiency. at all.

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Don't you love when someone from outside talks big shit pretending to know what YOUR job is and determining its not needed?

Almost like firing people based on code written didn't backfire last time..

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 hours ago

Read Project 2025, the plan is to get rid of federal employees and replace them with Trump loyalists.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 55 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

But think of the billions of dollars of now unused office space. That's horrible for real estate pricing, which is where many of these fucks are invested.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

It's not even a real estate issue sometimes. I worked in an office in an industrial facility- printing custom boxes. Everyone in an office job was on a hybrid schedule. No one's job required them to be at the office. All conversations were by Slack, all meetings were by Zoom even if we were all in the office. They could have knocked down the office space and put in at least two more industrial printers. Considering how backed up we got around Christmas, that would have helped them.

Some of this is just old assholes who think people need to be in the office all the time so they can watch them or something. I don't know.

At least they didn't make me wear a tie.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago

And billions of barrels of oil no longer being used and going to waste from all the travel not happening and extra heat needed.

[–] solomon42069@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Efficient for whom? The rich all have millions invested in commercial real estate so if it's not about voluntary resignations it's about that.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 125 points 12 hours ago

Fuck you both

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 47 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Working from home for all jobs that it is compatible with should be a mandate to help lower the amount of gas necessary for commuting.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

You think these ghouls don't have tons of investments in oil.

[–] numbermess@fedia.io 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yep but that means you're not buying gas, which is a crime

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Exactly! People died for this gas, don't you care???

That hurts their profits

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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 70 points 12 hours ago

god I fucking hate these people. Pure fucking hatred.

[–] samokosik@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why? I think businesses should be left alone to decide.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They’re talking about federal employees

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Let the managers decide, then.

If we won't let logic or evidence do it, at least the people working directly with their teams and having to deal with them should do it.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 70 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

At least they're open about it: The entire point (according to them) is attrition. The actual plan is to make work for these people much more hostile so they quit.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 39 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Do you think our tax bills will drop if they succeed in forcing these million employees to quit?

They said they want to run the government like a business, and it looks like that's what they're pursuing. Unfortunately, that just means they'll give us the lowest quality service at the highest possible price.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They said they want to run the government like a business,

In other words: terribly. They want to run the government terribly, exactly how business runs in this country.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

At the expense of everyone for the benefit of the few.

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[–] ModestMeme@lemm.ee 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We owe commercial real estate investors exactly jacksh’t. This is, at least in part, about securing income for commercial landlords. Their “jobs” aren’t any more precious than anyone else’s jobs that are being impacted hard by this changing era. If they would like to fill their buildings, they can fork over some cash to convert parts of them to housing.

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