u/WhereztheBleepnLight

Well, at least despite this administration's efforts to make us all the public enemy number one, it did not entirely work. It's sickening to see how wasteful it actually is when one party takes over and pummels through taxpayer dollars to push agendas they want hard and this administration certainly has been a unique 'roid rage version of that process.

I just wish the people who actually do the work in the agencies had at least a little ability to push back on the political appointees who head each agency. We all have to take orders from the president's political appointees who likely have financial interests of their own behind what they are enforcing, yet we can get fired for accepting a $5 Uber ride from a private contractor as it can be looked at as a bribe.

It makes perfect...sense?

Trump recently posted something on X with a Q about Quantum and then signed EO's about Quantum.

Phil Godlewski (big grifter/podcaster in the Qult community) has been really propping up an investment opportunity for ATQM in the crypto investment world that is related to Quantum computers and now with Trump's latest post about Q and the EO's he signed about Quantum this crowd is getting PUMPED THE F* UP.

I didn't look into it much but some people I know have decided to invest quite a bit in this because IT'S ALL ABOUT TO GO DOWN THIS TIME FOR REAL apparently...

I don't know, I just hope that I don't see people I know get scammed by these kinds of predators...AGAIN.

Anyone else see this kind of excitement from those they know?

GSA recently held a townhall pump up session to get everyone at the agency jazzed about a huge office renovation in DC that will house both OPM and GSA once they become one agency. GSA Administrator Forst was touting that this project will be the most important project in GSA history and how everyone across the country will be blown away by the finished product.

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Sir, this isn't what the people want, it's not even what the people who work at that agency want. Let's call this song and dance for what it really is...this project is not "for the American people" as you say it is, it's a project to help a small percentage of the American people who have hefty real estate portfolios and cannot fathom the possibility of losing some of their fortune because office buildings became a good investment of the past.

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The administrator is a former executive at a fortune 500 real estate company. Could this huge project be to help the elite feel more confident and secure in their current assets without having to use any money of their own? Could this be the use of taxpayer dollars to increase the value of surrounding properties and boost confidence in commercial office buildings without needing to dip into private accounts?

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How are 'the people' going to benefit from this ridiculously costly remodel? No one cares if the agencies are working from an "office of the future" especially because they don't need to be working from any one office with today's technology. Forst constantly says the public buildings are the people's portfolio, but how are they benefiting from it? I mean, have the American people received any checks from the sales of these building so far?! I know I am still waiting on my DOGE check to come in the mail.

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This administration has showed they really don't care at all about what a majority of the people actually need or want. They're just going to tell the working people what they need and want. Forst doesn't even listen to the people at the agency he currently heads. As the remodel is underway, leadership is requiring all the workers in DC to move to a different building and the number one question at their pump up meeting was 'can we at least telework during construction?' Forst's scoffing response to this was "of course this was the most asked question, and, no, there will be no change to the agency's telework posture". Telework clearly is what the people want and the administration is just going to laugh about it and then tell anyone who asks about it no because I said so.

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The man literally said at a previous agency meeting to the employees at GSA in response to a question about why routine telework will never come back "because all the best ideas happen at the water fountain". I mean, if you're going to use a bogus outdated meaningless quote at least get it right AND he must have forgotten that it's quite possible that the water fountains he speaks of contain water with legionella, but let's be honest, they probably want us to ingest the legionella!

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Does the administration truly think that the American people would be super stoked about seeing a building 'they own' guzzle up more tax dollars to remain just a building filled with office cubicles and fishbowls made to confine workers who could be performing their jobs more effectively remotely as they did for decades prior?

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Legislation is already in place to provide a pathway to renovate federal buildings that are no longer needed for their original purpose into buildings truly for the public. At the Senate Committee on Appropriations hearing in the middle of May 2026, Forst was questioned about whether he was aware of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 and if he has put forth any effort into transforming any of the federal underutilized buildings into housing. His response was from what he understood, it's not very feasible to do this type of transformation with these buildings but he would be "delighted" to have conversations with local governments and developers. Let's be real, if it's not going to help him and his buddies' portfolios, he ain't having that conversation. They don't want poor people interfering with their "office buildings are all the rage" campaigns.

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If these buildings in GSA's portfolio really are "the peoples" then why can't they be transformed into buildings the public can actually use or actually benefit from like libraries, museums, housing, parks, etc.? I would much rather see efforts to reduce office footprints rather than spend all this money to enforce an unneeded blanket RTO and recreate public buildings for public use. I also would much rather see middle class people have the ability to benefit from flexible work options rather than be slammed back into cubicles of confinement all to save commercial real estate industry.

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This huge office remodel is just a showcase project for the administration to boost up and rally behind the commercial office industry so building owners don't lose money all while never having to use a dime of their own. Public money to bail out an industry that no one wants to see survive other than them.

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I might be stating the obvious here...but hearing them brag about how this project will do so much good for the American people was nothing short of enraging.

This seems so bogus...of course OPM and the administration is going for the angle to further villainize public employees as people who are just lazy fraudsters...when it's not us at all.

The way things are set up already...you have to provide birth certificates of children if you want them on your plan...this isn't new and if the handlers of FEHB from the top are mismanaging the process, it's the political appointees and health insurance providers not doing their due diligence, not the federal everyday workers who are at fault trying to 'scam the system' like they are AGAIN trying to tell the public...

Selling yet another BOGUS narrative to the public from our abusers...enough is enough! You've already done enough damage to us all.

The federal agency I work at has been actively looking for employees opinions with workplace satisfaction and viewpoint surveys. These are emails that I know many of my colleagues just ignore at this point...because they clearly can care less about what we think or how we are.

May is Mental Health Awareness month and they have only done things to negatively impact mental health of federal employees...

So the appointees and administration heads want to know how we are doing???

Let's see... just this past year you:

1. Obliterated telework; a method of working that has proven to be mutually beneficial for both employee and employers. Data shows employees are both happier and more productive.  A win for employers.

2. Made it nearly impossible for anyone to get a good performance rating with a meaningful reward even though the people left have taken on 60% more workload in a very toxic work environment due to DOGE chainsawing.

3. Impulsively fired hundreds of people then turned around months later to ask them to come back. 

4. Began looking for people to fill positions that were occupied by qualified, experienced people with inexperienced people who will need to be trained due to the DOGE actions that saved no money.

5. Took away potential for internal employees to receive promotions by demoting backfill positions.

6. Ensured that little to no pay increases would occur for all employees.

7. Incurred more expenses for employees due to additional costs associated with RTO such as gas, parking, train, extending childcare hours, lunches, etc.

8. Following orders from people like appointee Vought who said about the federal workforce: "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want to put them in trauma."

9. Removed unions and collective bargaining rights for all federal employees.

Here's my "anonymous" response for them all:

FUCK OFF!!!

Hope this empowers you to join a union and fight back against those that just want to keep their effortless free paychecks coming in all while making the peons more miserable and them more rich. Enough is enough.

My agency has been actively looking for employees opinions with workplace satisfaction and viewpoint surveys. These are emails that I know many of my colleagues just ignore at this point...because they clearly can care less about what we think or how we are.

May is Mental Health Awareness month and they have only done things to negatively impact mental health of federal employees...

So the appointees and administration heads want to know how we are doing???

Let's see... just this past year you:

1. Obliterated telework; a method of working that has proven to be mutually beneficial for both employee and employers. Data shows employees are both happier and more productive.  A win for employers.

2. Made it nearly impossible for anyone to get a good performance rating with a meaningful reward even though the people left have taken on 60% more workload in a very toxic work environment due to DOGE chainsawing.

3. Impulsively fired hundreds of people then turned around months later to ask them to come back. 

4. Began looking for people to fill positions that were occupied by qualified, experienced people with inexperienced people who will need to be trained due to the DOGE actions that saved no money.

5. Took away potential for internal employees to receive promotions by demoting backfill positions.

6. Ensured that little to no pay increases would occur for all employees.

7. Incurred more expenses for employees due to additional costs associated with RTO such as gas, parking, train, extending childcare hours, lunches, etc.

8. Following orders from people like appointee Vought who said about the federal workforce: "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want to put them in trauma."

Here's my "anonymous" response for y'all:

FUCK OFF!!!

Who's filling out these employee "pulse" surveys?

The agency I currently work at is really pushing the workplace satisfaction and employee pulse surveys. With all the reminder emails they send out, I have to wonder is anyone actually filling these out?

The administration has made it pretty damn clear by now that they give two shits about how we all are and whether or not we are satisfied with our work environment...so why even ask at this point??

Is it because they get off on knowing how miserable everyone is or are the only people filling out these things loyalists who will sing their praises for how awesome of a job they're doing pummeling through taxpayer dollars to reverse any progress made in creating a nontoxic work environment?

Legislative action has already been taken to make better use of federal space which would allow employees to benefit from telework but this administration has crushed those intentions hard.

One is the USE IT Act of 2023 which requires federal government to collect data on occupancy of buildings and for those properties not meeting the 60% occupancy threshold would need to reduce their footprint. RTO reverses all the money already spent on downsizing office space to now expand office spaces for agencies due to the destruction of telework.

Another is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 which was intended to turn federal buildings being underutilized into affordable housing for the homeless and other Americans in need. RTO makes this intention even tougher.

Ways to repurpose these buildings exist and legislation is already in place to try to achieve this but that's not what the elite want. They want to be able to keep their effortless paychecks coming in all while making the peons more miserable and them more rich.

This administration could care less about hearing what the people really want or how they want to work, in fact it is their goal to traumatize the federal workforce, so why the hell are they trying to make it seem like they actually want to hear what their workforce thinks right now? They will either do nothing with honest responses from employees or use it against them.

You want my opinion??

Let's see... just this past year you:

1. Obliterated telework; a method of working that has proven to be mutually beneficial for both employee and employers. Data shows employees are both happier and more productive. A win for employers.

2. Made it nearly impossible for anyone to get a good performance rating with a meaningful reward even though the people left have taken on 60% more workload in a very toxic work environment due to DOGE chainsawing.

3. Impulsively fired hundreds of people then turned around months later to ask them to come back.

4. Began looking for people to fill positions that were occupied by qualified, experienced people with inexperienced people who will need to be trained due to the DOGE actions that saved no money.

5. Took away potential for internal employees to receive promotions by demoting backfill positions.

6. Ensured that little to no pay increases would occur for all employees.

7. Incurred more expenses for employees due to additional costs associated with RTO such as gas, parking, train, extending childcare hours, lunches, etc.

8. Following orders from people like appointee Vought who said about the federal workforce: "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want to put them in trauma."

Here's my anonymous response for y'all:

FUCK OFF!