DOJ Employee Goes On Profane Rant Against President Trump For Making Workers Return To The Office

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One of the initial steps President Donald Trump has taken in an effort to enhance the efficiency of the federal government involved signing an order that mandates federal employees who had been working remotely in the wake of the pandemic return to in-person work.

The move was met with enthusiastic support from many of Trump’s supporters, but a number of those federal workers impacted by the order were none too pleased.

As the Daily Caller reported, one paralegal working for the Department of Justice uploaded a TikTok video complaining about Trump’s return-to-office order::

Trump issued an executive order Monday requiring agencies to terminate remote work arrangements and for employees to work in-person on a “full-time basis.” The paralegal, Kaitlin Kons, said she and her co-workers were dealing with an “information intake” and were “yapping” in the office instead of doing their jobs.

“As a government employee, what’s so ironic about all this shit going on with Trump making us go in-person five days a week to promote efficiency, and also establishing the Department of Government Efficiency, the DOGE, what’s really funny is, because of all of this news and all of the change in policy, we are yapping more at work, we are trying to digest everything that’s going on,” Kons said. “We cannot get any work done because of how much information intake that, like, existing in this administration requires.”

“And we’re not yapping just to yap. We’re yapping because every single day a memo comes down from God knows where telling us that there’s a new rule that we need to enforce for a job that does not relate to what we’re doing,” Kons continued. “Like, oh, you work for the FDA? Guess what? Now you’re going to have to enforce immigration. Any fucking federal employee, guess what, go snitch on your fucking colleagues if they do anything related to DEI now. Like, this week has been such a whirlwind. I cannot get work done.”

Her tirade didn’t earn a lot of sympathy among some social media users:

Several other federal employees expressed similar frustrations on Reddit, however:

Here’s a sampling of comments from those who endorse Trump’s order:

Here are some details about the Trump directive, per Axios:

Why it matters: The clock has started. Following President Trump’s orders, the Office of Personal Management (OPM) gave federal workers roughly a month’s heads-up to be back in the office full-time.

The big picture: Every federal agency head had to revise their telework policies by 5pm Friday. The directives may differ, but they all must:

  • Instruct employees to work full-time at their “duty stations” unless excused due to a “disability, qualifying medical condition or other compelling reason certified by the agency head and the employee’s supervisor,” per OPM’s memo.
  • Require that every employee is complying within 30 days.

“The only way to get employees back to the office is to adopt a centralized policy requiring return-to-work for all agencies across the federal government,” reads OPM’s memo.

  • “Seeking to cajole individual agencies to try to get employees to return to the worksite has not succeeded.”

The fine print: If a worker’s duty station is over 50 miles from an agency office, then the agency should move the employee’s duty station to the “most appropriate agency office,” per the order.

  • The Trump administration will also cooperate with existing union contracts, per the memo, and some exceptions may be granted thanks to “collective bargaining obligations.”

Here’s some additional coverage of the recent developments:



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