Federal workers forced to return to offices with no desks –– and plenty of chaos: report

Federal workers forced to return to offices by Donald Trump's administration are showing up to facilities lacking desks and equipment allowing them to do their jobs.

According to a report from the Washington Post, "chaos" is a nice way of putting what is going on with some workers saying they are forced to scramble for a place to work, and get computers access when they are not standing around in hallways wondering what comes next.

As the report notes, FEMA workers were given guidance to "share workstations on a rotating basis" last week with supervisors being instructed to "flip a coin" if all else fails on who gets a place to work.

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According to one FEMA worker, “People are miserable. Everybody is miserable and anxious. It’s palpable."

With Trump demanding all workers whose jobs haven't been put in limbo show up at federal buildings, the Post is reporting, "A U.S. Navy Department employee in Virginia, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said he was ordered to return to the office Monday. But because of a lack of space, his team has been spread among four buildings, some of them separated by 30 to 40 miles. 'I’m making a 15-minute drive to get paperwork routed,' he said. 'Some people are making a 45-minute drive.'"

Another federal employee told the Post her office has 40 people attempting to share 14 desks and therefore, "they take turns at the desks and spend the rest of the day killing time and chatting in the halls." She has been forced, at times to sit in an auditorium with no computer access and no work being done.

Another worker who has been told to return after working remotely, "If I’m in an office space, I don’t work with anybody in the office. My bosses are in a different location, our team is all over the West, and it has been that way for decades. It’s not that people don’t want to go to work. There’s just no place to go.”

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