Never mind
Well, that was quick. Portland's new mayor, Keith Wilson, has withdrawn his directive that city workers come back to the office more often. If you're still setting up your scorecard, that's Bureaucrats 1, Wheelerson 0.
And next he's going to run into the motley crews warming the cushy chairs at the City Council and county commission. I like the mayor, but I'm afraid there won't be much left of him by this time next year. You'll probably find him sitting in the back row of the council chambers muttering to himself.
We can't have a situation where the staffers have to come in to the office from their homes in Bend or Carefree.
ReplyDeleteThe higher-paid ones are further away than that.
DeleteI still camp in my little ol' tent, and every time I see one or more "vanlifers", who I would guess are WFH minions. What a life!
DeleteThe ones working from home that live in SW Washington don’t have to pay Oregon State taxes. It’s no wonder they don’t want to come in.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure if they are paid by an Oregon entity, they pay Oregon state income taxes. No matter where they live.
DeleteThat sounds wrong to me. Source of income is where services are performed.
DeleteI thought the reasons for the reversal were truly precious. Budget restrictions and the need to deal with the homeless situation. The homeless situation has nothing to do with employees showing up to work. And what does the budget have to do with people showing up at the office to work? The office is already there. The people are already being paid. There is no increased cost to requiring employees to put in their solid 5 or so hours/day at the office. The only risk I see is that it may be found that there are more employees than desks for them to lounge at, and, boy howdy, productivity may mysteriously increase. That hippie serving as the employees' union president, as seen on KGW news this evening, pretty much personifies the city slacker employee. He said that a poll of employees conducted showed that half would seek other employment if required to return to the office. 50%reduction in city workers, that sounds about right to me.
ReplyDeleteGood to see that hissy fits are leading the charge in decision making.
ReplyDeleteSo we got lemons, let's make lemonade. Move the homeless in so we can get some return on our continuing tax burden to maintain those buildings. It's a win, win...
Our capon-mayor is learning about the new city charter the hard way. He doesn't have the power (forget tiresome legalisms) to move the political needle. Which, since time immemorial depends not on good feelings or logic, but fear. He doesn't scare anyone. He's toast.
ReplyDeleteKamala voters!
ReplyDeleteYou are so very tiresome.
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