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

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.

It's almost like the leaders are completely incompetent

Funny that the executive order directs a return to office with a nearly non-existent timeline, specifically saying that everyone has to have a desk and a place to sit and work without resorting to extreme measures.

Almost as if this whole thing was extremely short-sighted. But they wouldn't do that, would they? And surely not dozens of times within the span of a week.