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[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will.." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress..." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun..." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?" ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers." ]

[ "Are they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter.", ">\n\nAre they just sitting around in their offices trying to one up each other on shitty legislation?", ">\n\nYes. But to be fair, they’ve spent years on perfecting their shitty legislative objectives", ">\n\nSometimes I wonder if the GOP legit just feeds on people's suffering.", ">\n\nYes, they do. Or rather their billionaire donors do. Billionaire capitol holders need a massive pool of pore people to funnel money up from, to buy their shitty products and work their min wage death march jobs.", ">\n\nthese guys really just dont give a fuck about worker comfort or quality of life do they lol", ">\n\nThey actually don’t give a fuck about anyone’s comfort or quality of life... they are just starting with the workers.. a warm up if you will..", ">\n\nThey care about theirs and nobody else's.", ">\n\nIt appears they care only about those who above them with hope they will be on top sometime in the future so other below will do the same. Some king of sick submission fetish.", ">\n\nThe Congress is Out of Touch Act of 2023", ">\n\nCOTA?\nCIOOTA?\nYou'll never make it in Congress...", ">\n\nThat's right, cant have a better work environment under the gop", ">\n\nThe message of the Republican party is that other people are living the high life on your dime. It’s always some version of that, whether it’s single mothers, immigrants, or certain federal employees. Spoiler alert, it’s not true. \nHowever, the ultra rich are living the high life and getting even richer with every Republican tax cut. We can’t have good roads, schools or healthcare for everyone, but wage earners should enjoy the few hundred dollars they get from the tax cut that gives corporations billions of dollars. Every tax cut is the same.", ">\n\nAnd the 2 years of awful bullshit have begun...", ">\n\nThis is where they throw a bunch of crazy shit at the walls and cry about the Dems blocking all their good deeds.", ">\n\nThis... this comes off as a total cluster fuck: \n\nThe Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems — or “SHOW UP” — Act would require all federal agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements, in effect largely reducing the current amount of telework options for federal employees.\n\nOkay, clever title.. though not sure where \"unproductive\" comes from or how that was determined... but it's an Acronym... \n\nRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the newly-renamed House Oversight and Accountability Committee, introduced the bill on Jan. 11. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) are the original cosponsors of the bill.\n\nAh, got it. \n\nIf the bill is enacted, federal employees who were working in person prior to the pandemic would have 30 days to return to the office. That would stay in effect at least until the Biden administration “provides Congress with a viable plan to avoid the negative impacts of remote work,” Comer said.\n“For years, Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats. President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs,” Comer said in a press statement.\n\nOh, really... unproductive? Like during a shut down and everything stops and closes or just... working from home?\n\nAccording to leaders on the Oversight Committee, the expansion of telework during the pandemic led to massive backlogs and delays at agencies such as the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the State Department. Comer pointed to delays in, for example, assistance to veterans, tax refunds and passport applications, as ways that telework has negatively impacted federal services.\n\nOkay this is where I lost my shit in this dumbfuckery - The same party that says \"No, we don't need to fund the IRS even if a wave of resignations due to aging out is about to happen and the agency needs new agents to replace them\" to \"the IRS is backlogged and WFH is BAD!\"\n\nAdditionally, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja has warned that federal employees are “agency-hopping,” leaving agencies that don’t offer much telework flexibility, and moving over to ones that do.\n\nGOP is unaware how competition impacts retention. \nThis bill won't pass. But it's a clear window into this new House and how they're just throwing whatever they can out even if they have overtly mixed messages. There really is no cohesive plan - just a 220ish number of people throwing bills out there, even if they conflict with each other.", ">\n\nThis is the party of appearance over substance. It's not about actual work being done, but having the appearance of a busy workplace. The party of stage sets and costumes.", ">\n\nNot sure if this was mentioned but teleworking large groups of employees save lots of tax dollars by not having to have full buildings up and running to accommodate them. Example, just before the lockdown, my employer sighed a lease for x number of square feet in a new building. The lockdown came when the building was half done and our old building was now vacant. They realize how much money they saved in electric alone but also all other areas too. Post lockdown, the building is done and they do not want us to come back. They are on the hook for that x number of square feet but it does not mean we have to be in it. There is an entire floor that could be used for a ping pong tournament. Now they are subleasing some of the third floor to others, probably GOP folks.", ">\n\nJust when I think they can't possibly be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nThey can always be bigger shit bags.", ">\n\nwhat turds", ">\n\nYou know what caused those backlogs? The incessant cutting of federal agencies that has been led by the same political party that wrote this horseshit bill. They refuse to actually address the issue by increasing staffing and modernizing the agencies. They also mention the VA with negativity as a wink and a nod to the corporate health care status quo.", ">\n\nThey are that guy.", ">\n\nit’s about the bottom line for people that rent office space.\nit’s pretty hard to justify tgat gravy train when the offices are empty.\n$$$$$$", ">\n\nIt's a lot deeper than that actually. Everything about our exhausting work culture is designed to get us to spend money on conveniences.\nWork-from-home reduces unnecessary consumerism, and that is bad for shareholders.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of an article i read when working from home started to spike complaining that remote work was bad because it hurt the economy. \nThey described all the businesses that rely on traffic from office workers either being in walking distance or commuting by. Was a conservative news site too. Which is funny because their often \"adapt or die\" view of economics.", ">\n\nThe pain is the point", ">\n\nWhy.. if they're just as or more productive than they were in the office? Just cruel assholes.", ">\n\nDon't worry about any of the bills. None of them will get through the Senate or the President if they are frivolous and lacking in sincerity.", ">\n\nHouse Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to typewriters and 10 keys.", ">\n\nBefore 90% of us WFH, the DOT HQ was bursting at the seams, my co-workers were hot-desking and using meeting rooms to work in, always getting shuffled out for someone else's meeting.\nThis seems like a bad idea for so many reasons.", ">\n\nBoomers are the worst generation.", ">\n\nBecause it's always smart to group together when an infectious and deadly virus is still circulating in the US.", ">\n\nI certainly have. I believe in science. But CDC stats show that over half this country has stopped getting them. You might have read that.", ">\n\nWhat about new positions created during or since COVID for remote positions where they scored talent they normally wouldn't because of that persons location... Tell me how that negatively affects that agencies mission. Total BS.", ">\n\nHow does this help inflation? I notice they haven't tried to fix that yet.", ">\n\nSo they can attack them with pitchforks and pikes in their next insurrection?", ">\n\nThe daily \"Republicans pass bill / introduce bill\" that will go no where. The Senate is never going to vote on it, and it will never get to the President's desk. This is just Republican talking points for their insane followers.", ">\n\nNow that they fixed inflation, as promised, they can turn their attention to thingsthatdontfuckingmatter." ]

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[ "Any one can pledge. Pledging is easy. How many will actually pay?" ]

[ "Any one can pledge. Pledging is easy. How many will actually pay?", ">\n\nWhat happened (and is still happening) to the people of Pakistan is heartbreaking. \nAnd with climate change, flooding like that is only going to get worse. The world needs a systemic solution to help people after natural disasters. Something as ambitious as the Marshall Plan, with the wealthy countries doing their fair share" ]

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[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?" ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one." ]

[ "He won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit.", ">\n\nThis right here, there's money to be made.\nSide note: Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are my two favorite books.", ">\n\nOld Hunter knew what he was talking about.", ">\n\nHonest question: who is this guy, really?", ">\n\nHe didn't file because he'd have to lie on them, and lying on federal forms is prosecutable.", ">\n\nThey can't make him resign, the house could expel him but it would require a 2/3 vote. Given that that district has been solidly Democratic, even after the redistricting, I don't see how they would even consider it.", ">\n\nI can imagine, this dude ripping off his name plate and changing it to something else.\n\"I was never George Santos, obviously\"", ">\n\nThe lying lier who's entire background is fake?\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?", ">\n\n\nThe same guy who's campaign manager pretended to be someone else to raise money?\n\nI heard he pretended to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff.", ">\n\nI imagine he’ll serve out his entire term, the GOP won’t turn unless he doesn’t vote the way they want.\nHe’s the next Madison Cawthorn.", ">\n\nHow about Robert Zimmerman and the Democrats call for a new election? Because the last one WAS fraudulent. Republicans cheated. I'd like to see a do-over. Let the voters decide.", ">\n\nThe only way they will get him out is to organize and fund a recall effort, and even then it's unlikely to work because these are Republicans and they'd rather double down on crazy than admit they voted for a bad candidate. And besides they don't really want government to work. They want chaos so they can install their preferred dictator and turn this country from a democracy into a quasi-religious autocracy that punishes minorities that step out of place and offers a tradwife for every incel.", ">\n\nI'll give it until this Friday or next Friday 4pm to 5pm EST.", ">\n\nWell, the fact this is happening now means something at least.", ">\n\nThe republicans ignore subpoena after subpoena and we’re supposed to think this guy will resign….lmao he won’t resign i gaurantee it", ">\n\nLeave? In our moment of triumph? If there was any ethics or concerns about law and order, they wouldn’t be Republicans. When your first step is to enable cheaters, lairs and illegal activities, yeah doing the right thing isn’t going to happen. 2 years of grift and evil coming up!", ">\n\nSantos: NO U", ">\n\nIt's gonna happen - what's the over/under? Six months?", ">\n\nHis real name is McLovin", ">\n\nHe won't.\nThey can't make him do it.\nEnd of story.", ">\n\nJust like how no one could make Andrew Cuomo resign. \nYet he still caved into the pressure, and resigned.", ">\n\nCuomo was given the ultimatum to resign or be investigated. Santos is being investigated regardless, making not resigning the optimal strategy.", ">\n\nNot investigated by the House ethics committee. Republicans drug that out back and shot it in order to appease their lunatics.", ">\n\nHe’s representing a federal district that can still retaliate against him only by a district judge. That would give him more reason to not resign, as nothing can happen to him.", ">\n\nThis dude lied openly to millions of people, do you really think he has any morals to resign?", ">\n\nThe question isn't so much about his personal morals, more about whether there is sufficient incentive for him to resign.", ">\n\nI doubt his name is even George Santos", ">\n\nThere needs to be a thorough FBI investigation to determine- \"Just who is this guy\"?? Is he a plant by a foreign government, for example?", ">\n\nWe literally have the coup planners continue to undermine the USA. Sure they should. But we’ll apparently we don’t have a justice system for some people.", ">\n\nNever had an equal justice system yet. Not one.", ">\n\nThis guy is going ride this all the way to the bank. He doesn’t give a shit." ]