From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: DOGE Slashes 3,600 Wasteful HHS Jobs-Saving Taxpayers $600
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:22:53 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2/17/25 20:49, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:14:30 -0500, -hh says...
>
>>> The implication was that some were working/staying at home, AND
>>> getting second jobs, outside of government work.
>>
>> Precisely: it is an innuendo that's unproven.
>>
>> Furthermore, the innuendo is trying to falsely suggest that it is a
>> widespread practice without any substantiation on magnitude either.
>
> No one said "widespread".
Yet that's what the innuendo is from the "only 1%" bit.
> [from a parallel post]:
> Out of the 10s of thousands of Federal workers, and those who got
> to work at home, NONE of the thought to get a job at Wally World?
Of course some have, but is there any evidence that the rate of taking
on side jobs changed at all?
> I'd say the "innuendo" is spot on.
>
> There HAD to be an impetus to even SUGGEST some work-at-home federal
> employees were taking 2nd jobs.
>
> Could it be that some workers were ALREADY working 2, 3 jobs and were found out?
> Yes.
Or it could be owners of office buildings who are at risk of losing
their Fed leaseholders because with teleworking, the Feds don't need to
pay them to rent that space from them anymore. Quite easy to have their
K street lobbyists mention campaign contributions at risk if Congress
doesn't push Agencies to end to telework and not end those leases.
> Studies have already shown that some, not all, federal workers who got
> to work from home took 2nd jobs. That, in and of itself, is not "illegal",
> unless the job conflicts with their federal job, or ANOTHER federal job.
Do these unnamed 'studies' bother to note that some, not all, workers
took 2nd jobs even before CoVid or telework?
Because I can remember a guy who still worked his old college job bar-
tending on weekends. Others did home construction/repair. Before
CoVid, I was offered a seasonal part time job totally unsolicited:
weekends/evenings at an H&R Block franchise.
> Taxes will tell the story.
No need to, because its already an annual reporting requirement for a
lot of Feds. The OGE-450 reporting form has been around for 20+ years
in PDF form, and even longer in hardcopy.
-hh