Federal workers that were ordered back to work by Donald Trump have reported making disgusting discoveries upon returning to their offices.
These included issues like rodents infesting the workplaces and a lack of toilet paper in the bathrooms.
This comes after staff members were forced back into the office after the president ended remote working for federal employees.
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Trump went on to warn people that anyone who didn’t ‘show up to the office on time and on schedule’ would be fired from their position.
However, since making their return, workers have shared stories of cramped and unpleasant conditions.
One employee of the Bureau of Land Management spoke to NPR where they claimed that ‘we have to go to the agency head to ask if we can buy toilet paper’ due to the fact that Trump’s spending freeze has caused government-issued pay cards to be capped at $1.
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It has also been said that workers have been forced to share their workspace with other agencies and offices have suffered desk shortages, leaving some people to work in hallways, conference rooms, cafeterias and even inside storage closets.
Over at the Food and Drug Administration, when employees made their return to the office in March, they reported that there wasn’t enough parking and the cafeteria didn’t have enough food for everyone.
Despite being back in the office, many teams are still having to conduct meetings virtually due to different departments sharing the same space.
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One employee said: “It doesn’t make sense, I’m not with my team and this does not promote cohesion.”
Another added: “I’m literally remote working from an office instead of at home.”
Some federal workers have claimed that removing the ability to work from home could be a ploy to get people to quit as Trump’s administration is trying to downsize the government.
Signing the executive order, Trump admitted that he thought ‘a substantial number of people will not show up to work, and therefore our government will get smaller and more efficient’.
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A third worker said: “It’s completely unnecessary and we recognize the reason for it: To make us so miserable that we quit, but most of us won’t out of sheer spite.”
After his election win, Trump appointed Elon Musk as the new head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Since then, Musk has been hacking away at the federal budget in a bid to cut back on spending.
This has mostly been achieved so far by canceling contracts and making mass lay-offs.