When President Donald Trump took office last month to begin his second term there were some amazing little factoids the Biden Administration kept under wraps from the American taxpaying public. Two that come to mind a month later were:
- Washington, D.C. had the most workers working remotely from home 33% with it said that only 5% of Federal government workers were reporting physically to work.
- Washington, D.C. had 25% of its office space unused and available.
So as Donald Trump began to pull back the curtain on the deception, the Democrats launched more lunatic attacks to preserve the status quo from Elon Musk and his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) office exposing the truth of the matter.
Well, humorously enough, as Trump and Musk were falsely attacked by the political hacks of the left and fake news media, pretty soon others stepped up to defend them and further expose the lives of Federal workers on the taxpayer’s dimes.
There is a very interesting video making the rounds on social media platforms that seemingly is being shared from a TikTok account of “SachaTheGreat”, a former Federal worker who we could not identify by proper name.
What she has to say is riveting!
“I used to be a Federal employee and I am going to tell you why I don’t feel bad for Federal employees being forced to come back into the workplace. I worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for almost a year and the abuses I saw by government employees was astounding and shocking.
I worked as a realty specialist and that is someone who manages government owned lands so when farmers and ranchers lease land to graze cattle, we would manage that.
When I was hired my boss bragged that it was basically impossible to get fired from the federal government. And that in her entire time working for the government, she’d only seen one person fired and that person assaulted a fellow employee and she wasn’t even fired for assaulting the fellow employee at work, she was fired for lying about it because they caught it on camera.
When I worked for the government, we were allowed to work 50% in the office and 50% from home, for the most part. In some cases, if you’d worked there like, I think over 10 years or something, you could actually work from home three days a week and work from the office two days a week.
I use the word (finger air quotes) work (finger air quotes) very loosely. One employee spent his time (air quote) remote working (air quote) running his own farm.
Another employee bragged about drunk driving and going out to lunch with her friends for margaritas when she was supposed to be (air quotes) remote working (air quotes). No one would log into their computers and you can see it because they’re not on Teams (Microsoft program) and no one ever checked, ever.
There’s something called the 80-20 rule where 80% of the work in government is done by 20% of the people and this is very, very true.
People who get a job in the government a lot of times find out that it’s very difficult to fire them and they take advantage of this.
One employee would come into the office, his start time would be 6:30, and he knew nobody would be there, and when I came in at 7:30 and I was the next person to come in, he was snoring at his des… EVERY SINGLE MORNING!
Another employee would take the government truck on an almost daily basis so that he could go out to lunch and then go and take a nap in his favorite park under a shady tree, in the government truck.
One of the very first things I did when I started working for the Corps, I spent three months cleaning up their real estate files room which was a disaster. The government is using an antiquated system that was developed some time in the 90’s and using regulations that haven’t been updated since the 90’s to manage our dams and our government lands.
Our government is filled with the most incompetent and most lazy people and an occasional hard worker. And those hard workers are severely punished every time they outwork their colleagues. Because then the colleagues realize people will see that they’re lazy and they don’t want to have to work more. They’re just buying time until they retire in almost every case.
My point is some of our government organizations haven’t been maintained or updated in so long that you basically need to create a new organization and start from scratch because there is almost no way to transfer it over and there’s so much red tape in between it will never get done.
But I know that our government is inefficient because the people working for it are not doing what they need to do to take care of the rest of us. So, no, I don’t think government employees should get the benefit of working from home if our government is not working for us. We shouldn’t have to take years to do anything in a technological age. They choose to take that long. That’s a choice. So they can choose to do things faster and more efficiently and they can choose to get remote work back.
I don’t feel bad for them at all.”
CONCLUSION:
The presentation by this young lady meant a lot to me as I used to teach engineering students in college and I would often hear similar stories from many of my graduates coming back to visit me.
I would often relate a story to them how one time I had a friend who bought a house in a “river city” and he found out he had to have flood insurance. He called his insurance company and realtor telling them somebody made a mistake as his house sat on a hill 100 feet above the city looking down on it. His realtor did not know what to tell him. His insurance agent told him to contact the Army Corps of Engineers. He did and they told him they would have to send somebody out to visit him in his new house.
My friend, being a smartass like myself said, “Why don’t you save yourself the trip and my time and just look at the topographic maps in your office and check my elevation from there after I give you my exact longitude and latitude coordinate?”
My friend told me, “The guy said, ‘I see you know something about our job…’ but I could tell he really wanted to say, ‘What are you, some kind of a smartass or something?’”
His house was removed from being designated on a “floodplain” within a week.
We both still question how it ever got put there in the first place?!?
Elon Musk has been having fun calling out some of these previous Federal workers (aka deadwood) as well:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2025
Trump and Musk are doing all taxpayers a favor in “downsizing” or “rightsizing” this corporation known as the USA!
The news media should be telling the stories of people like Sacha rather than airing the staged protests against DOGE on the streets of D.C.!
© 2025 by Mark S. Schwendau
