‘Condescending’: Jacob Rees-Mogg leaves notes for WFH civil servants

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  1. What an arsehole Mogg must be to have as a boss. No wonder people want to WFH instead of seeing his smug face at the office.

    I just learnt the guy who sleeps on the frontbenches is also the minister for Government Efficiency.

  2. It’s incredible. With the device he used to create that he could just as easily have emailed whoever he wanted to speak to.

    Of course I’m equally surprised he didn’t scribe it with quill and ink and use a wax seal.

    What a ghastly creature to have to work with or for.

  3. What a cunt and I bet he expects people to travel even if they can’t afford to because of the cost of fuel or household bills swallowed up their cash. I wouldn’t be surprised if he believes he can dictate what they can do at home as well.

  4. > The notes, complete with an official government crest, said: “Sorry you were out when I visited. I look forward to seeing you in the office very soon. With every good wish, Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP.”

    You can just hear it dripping off the note. Just because he is stuck in the 19th century, does not mean we all are or all have to be. Did he need to see that person face to face to do something or would an email or phone call have sufficed? WFH is here to stay and he needs to accept that and adapt accordingly.

  5. If he’s willing to wait for them to get back to the office it can’t have being important. I’d ignore it

  6. what a ghoulish predator. if a senior member of management who has no purpose “visiting me” kept leaving notes on my desk, I’d be taking them to HR for harassment. what a pervy creep.

  7. >*”There is some evidence that working from home has caused problems for the functioning of government during the pandemic”*

    There is also some evidence that ministers being “in office” has caused problems for the functioning of government too!

  8. What a surprise that a class A self serving duplicitous tory badgerlicker is a bully.

    You have to really pity the people North East Somerset, super sad to be someone who wants such a hateful grim human to represent them, pretty toxic to be living in place where the majority think his behaviour is acceptable , and not embarrassingly shameful.

  9. Guess there’s not many “opportunities” given the minister for Brexit opportunities clearly has a lot of fucking free time.

  10. People like JRM, live in the past and want to drag everyone else back to the past. Politicians should be the opposite, people that want to pioneer a better future

  11. Is he coming to the Glasgow office, please tell me he is? Also, I can guarantee I’ll be in my job longer than he is in his and a lot less of a burden on taxpayers.

  12. What an angry man. I guess I’d be angry if I was taken away from my parents at 8, sent to Hogwarts or wherever and systematically bummed
    No wonder he’s taking his anger out on the rest of us

  13. > The Conservative MP is the minister of state for Brexit opportunities and government efficiency, a new role created for him. The job gives him a seat at the cabinet table and puts him in charge of civil service reform but leaves him without a department to lead.

    So basically he’s jobless and bored? Not to mention a complete jumped up arsehole….

  14. Clearly, there are so many, even endless list of, Brexit opportunities that he must find in his new role, that he can find time for elaborate and repeated manifestations of obsessive disorder.

  15. Surely the only thing that matters is the work gets done? I know we can’t expect certain MPs to know what ‘work’ is beyond getting everything they can from ‘expenses’, but still…

  16. People hadn’t been talking about jrm recently so he’s done this knowing it will bring him front and centre in the news. If he’s in the news he can spew his bile and get on tv. If he’s obscured and invisible no one cares about him.

    I prefer it when he’s invisible

  17. So, let me get this straight.

    He’s concerned about people working from home too much so he left notes *on their desk at the office*? I’m actually a comparatively big advocate of the hybrid approach but for one reason or another I’ve been to a “place of work” precisely twice this calendar year and neither time was it my official office.

    This snarky, passive aggressive stunt would have passed me by completely. You’d think the minister for government efficiency would know how to convene a teams meeting, set some expectations and do some monitoring then speak to individuals concerned. You also might reasonably expect him to have, I dunno, some kind of argument for asking people to come back in, preferably backed with facts and figures (I know that was a big part of getting people on my teams to come back in on a flexible basis, as was listening to their concerns and trying to come up with new ways of doing things that better reflect the new reality).

    But no, we get playing to the cameras theatrics designed to delight idiot daily heil readers.

    Absolute joke. Wonder what the cost to the taxpayer was of his time spent mincing around with his little notes? Green agenda? Did he need to print all that?

  18. Encountered him and his crew back at Oxford late 80’s at the Union – even then he had a sense of entitlement I found highly irritating.

    He’s still the same.

  19. Tell me you have no idea how to lead in the modern environment without telling me you have no idea how to lead in the modern environment.

  20. Given that he is “minister for Brexit opportunities” there is fuck all else for him to do. Idle hands and the devil’s work etc.

  21. Come on I mean how are the chaps from the right schools going to sexually harass staff if their not in the office

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