Justifying Their Employment
There are articles all over the internet about what Musk and DOGE are doing in regards to Federal workers having to prove that they're actually earning their salaries.
First, I worked almost 45 years as a programmer writing application code before I retired. I can honestly say that other than the initial training on a new job, there wasn't one single day of my entire career where I didn't have to account for my day. Put another way, I had to list what I got done every single day of my working life. So these whining little twerps are getting absolutely no sympathy from me.
Second, all Musk is doing is asking them to justify their position. And to that, I say this: If they can't justify why they have a job, then they shouldn't have that job. If they can't prove that they're actually earning what they're getting paid, then screw 'em. Let them find work in the private sector. If they think that simply listing what you get done each day is too much to ask, they're going to be in for a big surprise once they get a job with someone other than the government.
OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.
First, I worked almost 45 years as a programmer writing application code before I retired. I can honestly say that other than the initial training on a new job, there wasn't one single day of my entire career where I didn't have to account for my day. Put another way, I had to list what I got done every single day of my working life. So these whining little twerps are getting absolutely no sympathy from me.
Second, all Musk is doing is asking them to justify their position. And to that, I say this: If they can't justify why they have a job, then they shouldn't have that job. If they can't prove that they're actually earning what they're getting paid, then screw 'em. Let them find work in the private sector. If they think that simply listing what you get done each day is too much to ask, they're going to be in for a big surprise once they get a job with someone other than the government.
OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.
This works for SS, Medicare, Medicaid and a host of other departmental employees/activities.
Makes me wonder about my County/City/school systems. Already found Act Blue fraud in my area.
First, you're given a checklist of things you need to get done, and you're judged by whether or not you got them done. For example, my wife is a retired dietitian. Each day, she had a list of people in the hospital that she needed to see. She had to get through that list, or explain why she couldn't get through it.
Second, one or people see (or everyone sees) it when you don't get done what you're supposed to get done on any given day. The first example would be a surgeon; you screw something up, a whole bunch of people see it. Or, if you're a pilot and crash a plane, then everyone sees it. Either way, you're judged by whether or not you get them done.
Third, people like programmers, who have to report what we got done each day. We all had assignments to get done, and a good chunk of what my company billed for my time and efforts was based on those status reports.
Now to the point: If you had a job where you didn't have to account for what you did, I strongly suspect that you are in a small minority, And please don't get mad or think I'm judging in any way; it's merely a feeling that, based on my experience, places you in that small minority,
Also, maybe all the fired government workers will move out of northern Virginia and Maryland and turn those states red.
The USFS personnel, a mile away, were required to literally reapply for their own jobs, every year.
These actions were nerve wracking only to those who knew they couldn't justify their employment.
They are acting like this is an assertion they don't contribute. This is an opportunity to show how much. Almost everyone in private employment has to do this. Why should those being PAID by people in private employment do it?
Overhead jobs should ALWAYS be the most tenuous. The government is 100% overhead!
Then there is whining instead of being too lazy to "justify" goofing off with some creative writing.
In the government you could probably have 10 different jobs as already mentioned.
For me, this is a proof of life type question.
Also, I am 100% okay with not asking FBI Agents, and CIA, NSA, etc. To do this. Because they could accidentally leak information (Item 2: Worked with CIA on making Trump look bad)
There is no issue in the ASK.
But I think if you are in the protected Agency, you SHOULD provide a Proof of Life email to your boss.
Now, I am not sure how to handle Under Cover people.
But 99% of our government should not be in those groups.
Besides Kash and Bongino will clean house in the FBI soo enough...