Get Back To The Office
Nearly 2000 Harris County employees are still working remotely three years after the COVID-19 pandemic ended. That’s more than a third of all your public servants!
Here is the latest bombshell in our widening investigation into how they’re spending YOUR TAX MONEY! Time to get back to the office.
“We don’t want them to work from home because, as everyone knows, most of the time they’re not working, they’re not very productive,” stated President Donald Trump.
“A requirement that federal workers return to full-time, in person work immediately.”
Donald Trump had been president just a couple of hours when he went to the Oval Office and ordered federal workers to get back to the office full time or get fired.
And we think it’s time for Harris County to order our public servants to do the same thing…
As we blow up a bureaucracy wasting your money.
It’s 9 am… and we are looking for the head of the Harris County Equity and Opportunity Department.
Her name is Estella Gonzalez… and you pay her $259,000 a year to run Harris County’s version of DEI.
The eleventh highest paid official. In Harris County.
But on this Wednesday workday… Gonzales isn’t going into the office.
And it wasn’t the first time…
It turns out she gets to manage her employees and an 8 plus million-dollar department… from the comfort of her own home when she wants to.
Last month Gonzales didn’t even make an in-person appearance at the commissioners’ court when they wanted to know how much DEI we were doing.
The equity office is on the sixth floor of the county administration building…
There is an administrative assistant on duty… but I bet she gets real lonely…
Records from the equity office show there are 54 hybrid employees…
11 that are totally remote… including the woman managing how millions in COVID money is spent.
You know how many folks in the equity office are in the office full time… like you probably are… Just 2 out of 67.
Harris County commissioner Tom Ramsey is learning just how many county employees work from home.
“I don’t think we have our staff back to work over COVID,” he said.
Our investigation confirms that’s an understatement…
We asked each county commissioner to tell us if they have folks still working from home three years after the pandemic ended…
“In Harris County Precinct 3 we have 400 employees. No one is working from home,” Ramsey affirmed.
Adrian Garcia, the commissioner of Precinct 2, said all his folks were working at the office full time…
“I’m so happy to be here with you.”
Precinct 4 commissioner Lesley Briones’s office isn’t apparently able to tell us… at least hasn’t yet.
But Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis did respond… and he may set the record for a precinct run from the couch…
49 employees of the precinct are hybrid. They come to the office sometimes.
That’s nearly a third of all the workers in Precinct 1.
The exploding Harris County government swamp now has a 25-million-dollar administrative office…
Diana Ramirez makes $411,000 a year.
Commissioner Ramsey thinks it’s totally unnecessary.
“We don’t need a county administrator, period. We don’t need the office.”
Especially if folks aren’t even required to come to the office full time…
The administrator’s office says they have 67 employees who are either hybrid or remote.
But it appears people only have to show up four days a week to be considered in office full time at Harris County… when the administrator calls an employee in person.
Records obtained by Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey help expose a portrait of inefficiency…
There are more than 5300 folks on the taxpayers’ payroll.
Two thousand of them, almost a third, aren’t coming to the office full time three years after the pandemic ended.
Housing and Community Development… they have only 2 total employees in the office full-time…
And the folks who we pay to manage the budget… not a single employee is in the office full-time. Not one.
Guess that explains this… a virtually empty multi story parking garage for county employees next to the law library…
Blowing up this remote work racket with the commissioner is already paying dividends for taxpayers.
The Office of Management and Budget is suddenly telling its folks to get to the office full-time this month.
“So I know how it’s supposed to work. What we’re doing and Harris County is a bureaucracy gone bad,” declared Ramsey.
We’ve started our campaign to fix it… we busted the toll road…
And have exposed questionable spending of the $131 million in COVID relief money.
Maybe the federal government has noticed a lot of COVID money is being paid to folks who get to work from home.
While the rest of us have to report to an office at least five days a week.
One of our viewers on Facebook has suggested a new last name for me… Dogefino.
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