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Federal workers forced to return to offices with no desks –– and plenty of chaos: report
(www.rawstory.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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The federal desk shortage is bureaucratic theater at its finest. Trump’s admin resurrecting in-office mandates without infrastructure proves this isn’t about productivity—it’s about control. The propaganda machine spins “lazy remote workers” while FEMA staff fight for desks via coin toss. Peak bureaucratic absurdity when auditors sit computerless in halls, pretending busywork matters.
Decades of remote infrastructure tossed for performative authority. My self-hosted homelab hums smoother than their 40-mile commutes for paperwork. Digital rot festers while they cling to fax-era rituals. If collaboration were the goal, they’d modernize—not chain teams to dead offices.
The lesson? Self-hosted resilience beats centralized decay. Decentralize, encrypt, automate. Let the empire of empty desks crumble. We’ll be coding in the ashes.