One of the 7 federal agencies shuttered by DOGE on Friday is the most DOGE-able agency of all time.
FMCS (before the pandemic!) had a 9-story K Street tower for 60 employees. Its halls were lined with oil paintings of those employees, and other art purchased from the boss’s wife.
It used its office tower as a luxury lounge for employees, with an in-house gym, smoking lounge, and in-office showers. It listed its top employee as being on a six-year-long business trip to DC, so he’d have his rent & all meals paid for, just for showing up to work.
It steered $1,500-a-day contracts to friends, and jobs to relatives. Its employees “unblocked” abuse protections on their purchase cards, and used them to spend $18,000 at a jewelry store, their wife’s cell phone, and cable at their vacation home.
FMCS existed as a slush fund for employees to live luxury lives. There was no expense they wouldn’t bill to the government. One charged the feds for his personal storage unit, used to store photo albums of his dog Buster, even after he retired.
The Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service exists to offer voluntary mediation between unions & management. But many arbitrators do this; its real purpose was simply to pay employees, who constantly billed for travel to luxury destinations to “raise awareness” of its existence.
Its preposterously entitled and audacious employees even leased a BMW with a government card. When investigators & auditors sounded the alarm about blatantly illegal conduct, FMCS fired THEM! Even the few work-related expenses were ridiculous.
The 7 tiny agencies eliminated by DOGE+Trump last week are “independent” meaning they report directly to the president-but are so tiny that no president, or anyone, ever looks over their shoulders. Corruption is endemic as a result. WORTH READING IN FULL:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fmcs-slush-fund-abolished-by-trump?topStoryPosition=undefined
The info below is AI generated but does reflect the overall specifics which define temporary duty (TDY) for federal civilian employees, and at what point the duration of the duty becomes permanent duty location:
Permanent Assignment:
After a certain period (often 30 months), or when a temporary assignment ends, the agency must either permanently assign the employee to their temporary duty station or return them to their previous official duty station.
Relocation:
If the employee is permanently assigned to their temporary duty station, they may be entitled to relocation allowances, including some of the same allowances payable to employees assigned to a new official duty station on an indefinite basis.
Official Worksite:
The official worksite for location-based pay purposes is the location of the employee’s position of record, even if the employee is temporarily working at a different location.
The Exposure Phase. Even those of us awake for decades are horrified to see how some of the Canaanite-Khazarian criminal syndicate hirelings have been living like billionaires on the backs of We the People!!!
It’s EXACTLY 1776 AGAIN!