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Shocked. Is there one (or more) Trump appointment you like or at least think is competent to do the job?
 
Ramrouser said:
Shocked. Is there one (or more) Trump appointment you like or at least think is competent to do the job?
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Like?

no way whatever GIF

Some are much better than others though. Rubio is qualified. Bondi is qualified. Not a whole lot of other meat on the bone. How are you feeling about the populist, blue collar Trump having at least 14 billionaires among his appointees?
 
ZenMode said:
People came into the office before Covid. It seems like more and more companies are starting to encourage returning to the office, with some being a little more forceful, and I'd bet a good portion of that is performance based. When we went to work from home during Covid, there was a big jump in terminations of people who simply didn't have the self control to focus and perform at an acceptable level at home.
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There is a widespread perception among employers that employees work harder and are more accountable when they work at a physical office location. I have never seen that backed up by data, and in fact I have seen studies that claim that workers are happier and more productive when given flexibility and the opportunity to work remotely.

But again: we don't have to speculate here. Vivek has said that he hopes requiring federal employees to work full-time in the office (not "encourage" them to return to the office) will cause them to quit. Vivek's goal is to drastically reduce the size of the federal workforce, and that is the explicit purpose of requiring them to work in person all the time. It's not "performance based."
 
Ramrouser said:
Shocked. Is there one (or more) Trump appointment you like or at least think is competent to do the job?
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Honestly, I don't really know what the SBA does so I don't care. I was just responding to this notion that Loeffler is a good person for it. Typically, the SBA administrators have experience with small businesses. That includes, by the way, Trump's first SBA head, Linda McMahon, who as far as I know was a perfectly competent SBA administrator.

But anyway. I have no idea if Rubio is qualified for SoS. Other people here say he is, so I have no real basis for disagreement. I'm not expecting a GOP president to pick a guy I actually like, so I guess Rubio is fine. We'll see what happens when he's in office.

I have no real opinion about Ag dept, as I don't know that agency well enough. Bessent at Treasury is competent to do the job. He has some weird economic views -- views with which I disagree quite profoundly, but ironically enough most other folks with those views are leftist economists, so that's in and of itself strange.
 
lawtig02 said:
Like?

no way whatever GIF

Some are much better than others though. Rubio is qualified. Bondi is qualified. Not a whole lot of other meat on the bone. How are you feeling about the populist, blue collar Trump having at least 14 billionaires among his appointees?
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I think it’s good to have talented, successful businessmen and women in the cabinet.
 
ZenMode said:
The company I work for had some difficulty getting people back in the office, but it eventually gets worked out. Many of our clients are bringing people back to the office. We implemented a work from home policy that is performance based. I don't necessarily mind full-time remote work as long as there is accountability. Accountability is often lacking in government jobs.

If they want to go to work from home, then get rid of the buildings or at least drastically scale back the on-site seats. Having a desk for each work from home employee is a waste.
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most of this office space is under a lease, it's not like they can simply stop paying for it.
 
rodoheel said:
I have no problem with downsizing federal government office space. What I have a problem with is a blanket policy of forcing every government worker (or the vast majority of them) back into full-time, in-person work, which is expressly intended to make working for the government less attractive.
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There are always outliers, but from what I've read hybrid, work at home, and shorter work weeks have all had very positive returns in productivity.
 
ZenMode said:
People came into the office before Covid.
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And how much of that was more a practice of "That's how we have always done it"?

Technology gives us greater and greater flexibility, don't get caught up in how it was done before.

My company has sites all around the world, in the past there was a lot of travel needed to do certain jobs. With technology increases that's probably dropped 90%, would you be willing to tell my boss that we should go back to flying overseas for meetings, instead of using Zoom? I'd appreciate it if you could convince him.
 
Trump is much better when he's fighting against something. It's naturally hard to remain on top when you have the power. And he's especially not good at it.
 
SBA was better run under Trump than during the Biden Administration in my experience. The Biden SBA isn’t terrible but very disappointing how they handled PPP when they took over.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
... I will say one thing for right-wingers, they never, ever give up and they are incredibly tenacious and persistent. These people have been fighting the New Deal for nine decades now, have never really surrendered to it, and are now finally in a position to abolish most of it. Hell, there are even discussions of abolishing progressive reforms enacted by Teddy Roosevelt 120 years ago. They just don't stop. And unfortunately most Americans are clueless and just keep smiling and complacently saying "it surely won't be that bad, it wasn't last time."
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They've been fighting the Civil War for 21 decades!
 
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