Thousands of federal employees who have been forced to return to their offices in recent weeks have made a number of disgusting discoveries – including a lack of toilet paper and rodents.
Donald Trump immediately ended the work of home options for federal employees, and said that someone who does not come to the office on time and on schedule will be fired.
Since then, federal employees throughout the country have been in tight offices where they are forced to clean toilets and switch off the waste, according to the New York Times.
One employee of the Bureau of Land Management is even detailed to NPR how we should go to the head of the desk to ask if we can buy toilet paper 'because the payment cards they used by the government are pent by $ 1 under Trump's expenses.
Together, the non -Geidified employees said that the efforts of the Trump government to reduce federal employees are marred by a lack of planning and coordination, which leads to confusion and even more inefficiency.
Sometimes the federal employees are even forced to share office space with people from other agencies – create chaos because they all try to conference at different times.
Some have said that they were not even lucky to get a desk in the offices, with shortages from somewhere to 80 to 100 desks, according to a Federal News Network Survey.
The lack of space has left some works from conference rooms, cafeterias, corridors and even storage cabinets.
President Donald Trump immediately ended the work of home options for federal employees at his time
During the Food and Drug Administration, employees who flowed to Maryland's office on 17 March also discovered that parking was scarce and a line was craving for the neighborhood while employees tried to get through security.
Once inside they told The Times that they discovered that the cafeteria had not stored enough food and there were not enough office supplies to go around.
A scientist at the agency, who was hired for a remote function, also said that she must now share office space while working on sensitive and own projects – creating ethical and practical care.
In the meantime, in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, employees were told that they had to be braced for limited parking on the two campuses.
An employee there said that it can now take up to an hour and a half to leave the campus because the parking space is so full and there are choke points at every turn.
Part of the problem, the employee said, is that the campus was never designed for all employees to work in the office.
He explained that the federal government has implemented a long -term plan in the past decade to reduce the number of rental properties that the agency used – which led to an increase in work remotely.
At the Food and Drug Administration, employees who flowed to the office in Maryland on 17 March also discovered that parking was scarce and a line was craving for the neighborhood while employees tried to get through the security
At some federal agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, managers defend Trump's order, because they told the staff to continue to work remotely.
As a result, at least one employee had a choice between following the rules of the Trump and returning to the office knowing that there was not enough room, or continued to work from home in violation of the executive order.
Some employees who work directly with Americans on their tax returns came to the office on the first day that they returned on 10 March to be sent home.
“So instead of working that day, they spent time hanging out at the office and were eventually sent home to do the work they would have done all day,” Jeff Epper, a retired manager at the agency, told The Times.
Another IRS employee who works at an office in Texas also said that those without a desk assignment were told to go to the cafeteria and wait for an E -mail, but there is no WiFi in the cafeteria. '
But the IRS was not the only agency that inefficiencies experienced because of the order of Trump, with a doctor at the Department of Veterans Affairs that she returned to the office after having worked remotely in the past two years – only to arrange her days, selecting chair schedules, setting office hours and finding equipment for herself and her colleagues.
A security member is outside the headquarters of the Personnel Management office
The personnel management office houses the Ministry of Government Efficiency – which has worked to reduce the federal government
Other employees have detailed detailed how they were left to find a place to work, with a forest service that said that she was hired in a remote position without a physical office.
In fact, her onboarding forms stated that her 'service location' would be her home address.
The department had not rented out a physical building by the Ministry of Agriculture and employees were therefore asked to look for a federal building to work within 50 miles of their house.
This all let employees of different agencies together in the same office and tried to be productive because their colleagues keep virtual meetings.
“It makes no sense,” said a respondent of the Federal News Network survey. “I am not with my team and this does not promote coherence.”
“I am literally working remotely an office instead of at home,” added an employee to the American citizenship and immigration services, whose supervisor and colleagues are in different states.
The inflow among employees has also led to weaker WiFi signals, so that some employees cannot receive messages or log in to video conferences.
In the meantime, another employee of the Agriculture department said that they received a list of possible locations for their upcoming return to office theadline.
One location on the list was described as a 'storage unit', and when the employee asked about the option, they were told that the federal government is renting a unit to store an American fish and natural boat. It did not include heat, windows or electricity.
Many federal employees now see the return to office mandate as an thin-advanced trick to stop them under the efforts of Trump and Doge Chief Musk to curb the federal government
Many federal employees now see the return to office mandate as a thin – held trick to stop them under the efforts of Trump and doge Chief Elon Musk to reduce the government – have something to be through both the president and the CEO of Tesla.
After signing the executive order, Trump said he believes that a considerable number of people will not show up to work, and therefore our government will become smaller and more efficient. '
Last fall, Musk wrote in an OP-ED for the Wall Street Journal that “as federal employees do not want to show up, American taxpayers should not violate them for the privilege of the COVID era to stay at home.”
Yet at least one employee said that they remain vigilant in the midst of the uncertainties of dismissals and location changes.
“It is completely unnecessary and we acknowledge the reason for it: to make us so miserable that we stop,” the employee wrote in the research of the Federal News Network.
“But most of us will not resent out of pure.”
From the end of March, the Ministry of Finance said that 85 percent of its employees were back in the office.
Many employees have also returned to the Small Business Administration, and an Environmental Protection Agency officer said that 68 percent of his employees who were located in DC came back to the office full -time.
Almost 10,000 employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs have also been going to work personally since 20 January, with more to come back in the coming weeks, and 120,000 civilian employees have returned to personal work since 20 January at the Ministry of Defense.
