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Cockroaches and working in a closet: Inside Trump's return-to-office order (www.reuters.com)

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At NASA headquarters in Washington, just a mile from the U.S. Capitol, employees returned to an infestation of cockroaches and some are working in chairs with no desks, according to two people familiar with conditions there.

In a private chat, staffers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services likened the hunt for desks in some regional offices to "The Hunger Games," the popular series of novels and films where young people must fight to the death in a government-sanctioned contest.

And at an Internal Revenue Service office in Memphis, Tennessee, tax assessors sharing a training room are unable to discuss sensitive tax matters with clients over the phone out of fear of breaching privacy laws, according to one IRS manager who spoke to Reuters.

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. federal government employees, many of whom have been working from home since the COVID-19 pandemic, were ordered back to their offices full-time by President Donald Trump on January 20.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

So the government didn't even keep up basic maintenance on the offices but still demands people go back to work in them?

Also, severe roach infestations have a long list of health concerns from allergies to dysentery and typhoid fever. Those offices are unsafe for use. Is OSHA still a thing or did that get gutted to uselessness as well?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

OSHA has been pretty toothless for a long time at the federal and state levels both. It takes months, years sometimes to take enforcement actions because a single regulator might have ten or more cases working at any one time, and the courts that are supposed to handle enforcement are deliberately understaffed and overworked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Bullying small businesses? Hell yeah! Actually doing the important shit and keeping government working conditions in check? Hell naw!

Fuck the working class, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This has been true for almost everything. IRS pursues small tax fraud cause its easy and those folk can't fight it, big money or businesses have the ability to drag out court battles so they never pursued em. Ice isn't going to mega farms, they're going to some tex mex place near you to grab a couple folk who may not be legally here (but still pay taxes and if they aren't here legally can't even use those tax paid services).