• A patent examiner was paid for 730 hours not worked. The examiner was instead on the golf course, shooting pool, or going to happy hours.
• Just 8 out of 5000 dept of energy employees show up on the average day
• A senior USAID employee was living in NC while receiving DC pay. Over just 7 months the employee was overpaid $10,000
• Not a single HQ in DC has more than 60% of its employees show up to work
• A HUD employee went to Puerto Rico for a training and then stayed on vacation for a week while claiming to be working 100% on union time
• A Social Security employee claimed to be teleworking for more than 3 years. He was running his own business while having his mother and wife send emails for him
• A senior USAID employee colluded with her supervisor to live in Florida but claim an office supply store in VA as her home
• A manager responsible for overseeing the scheduling of veterans’ appointments at the Atlanta VA dialed into a meeting from a bubble bath—and even posted a selfie on social media.
• These empty buildings cost more than $8 billion every year to lease and $7.7 billion to maintain.
• 23-80% of surveyed teleworking bureaucrats are boosting their salaries by receiving incorrect locality pay.
• 90% of bureaucrats telework
• 6% of bureaucrats show up 5 days a week
• Nearly 33% of employees are entirely remote
• 94% of feds are still working from home--the EPA had poisonous water in its own headquarters because it was sitting in the pipes stagnant from disuse
• USDA inspectors claim they inspect food facilities for safety issues from home
• If you exclude security guards & maintenance personnel, the number of government workers who show up in person and do 40 hours of work a week is closer to 1%!