City of D.C. going to 1 day a week telework

[Anonymous]

She promised COLAs in this press release - so how come you DC government employees aren't fighting???

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-signs-legislation-authorizing-pay-increases-and-bonuses-dc-government-employees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She promised COLAs in this press release - so how come you DC government employees aren't fighting???

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-signs-legislation-authorizing-pay-increases-and-bonuses-dc-government-employees

Your reading comprehension and/or understanding of government terms needs some assistance. That press release refers to the COLAs for FY 2022 and 2023. FY 2024 started in October 2023 and the non-union employees have not received a FY 2024 COLA nor has there been any discussion of when they might get a COLA for FY 2024. The union employees have guaranteed COLAs through FY 2025.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So DC government is forcing middle class government workers to subsidize billionaire commercial building owners. Nice.

I guess it's too hard to come up with a more innovative way to repurpose those buildings.

Dumb post not at all based in reality, just talking points pulled out of your ass you think might convince other idiots.

Your post has no substance whatsover, unlike the pp you responded to.

[Anonymous]

What is their justification for not providing a COLA? I’m a former DC gov employee and they were usually pretty good about getting that done. Bowswer must be in dire straits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC government employees need to come back to the office. My company and many others in downtown DC started requiring 3-4 days in the office each week in early 2022. We are not paying these employees DC salaries so that they can work from home in Frederick. If they don't like it, then quit. 50% of DC government employees are slackers anyway. We can use those vacancies to hire more energized people.

Completely agree. As someone who has been struggling to find a full time job, I am sick and tired of feds and DC government workers whining and crying about the indignity of actually having to come into an office. You losers have had it great for FOUR years now. This isn't 2020 nor 2021. I don't think employers should be mandating five days a week in the office by gunpoint, but three or four is more than reasonable.

If you were dumb enough to decamp to an exurb or make crazy personal life choices to try to take advantage of the depths of the pandemic or chose to raise your children in PW County or some other crazy location, that is on you. Not going to shed any tears for you.

And this is especially rich coming from DC government paper pushers who pretend they have some incredible skillset that will be instantly in demand once they hit the private sector. Don't like it? Go get yourself a new job in the private sector. You are replaceable, never forget that. You don't have to buy $17 lunches. I never did. But you DO have to give a shlt about your community and support businesses that risked personal capital to open businesse while you sit on your fat duff collecting W-2s and complaining that you actually have to travel into the city to work, like we did for the previous 60 years.

If you have a serious lowered immunity issue, I feel for you. You deserve accommodation. But all these whiners crying about having to come back into an office, shut up already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If DC government wants people to come back into town then they need to do A WHOLE LOT MORE about the out-of-control carjackings, armed robberies, and the dangerous drivers. People just don't feel safe. Mayor, MPD, Council, AGs, Judges and everyone else all need to step up and accept this reality and realize they need to make changes.

Stop crying. Quit your job and stay home if you're scared. Or shut up and get to the office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC government employees need to come back to the office. My company and many others in downtown DC started requiring 3-4 days in the office each week in early 2022. We are not paying these employees DC salaries so that they can work from home in Frederick. If they don't like it, then quit. 50% of DC government employees are slackers anyway. We can use those vacancies to hire more energized people.

Completely agree. As someone who has been struggling to find a full time job, I am sick and tired of feds and DC government workers whining and crying about the indignity of actually having to come into an office. You losers have had it great for FOUR years now. This isn't 2020 nor 2021. I don't think employers should be mandating five days a week in the office by gunpoint, but three or four is more than reasonable.

If you were dumb enough to decamp to an exurb or make crazy personal life choices to try to take advantage of the depths of the pandemic or chose to raise your children in PW County or some other crazy location, that is on you. Not going to shed any tears for you.

And this is especially rich coming from DC government paper pushers who pretend they have some incredible skillset that will be instantly in demand once they hit the private sector. Don't like it? Go get yourself a new job in the private sector. You are replaceable, never forget that. You don't have to buy $17 lunches. I never did. But you DO have to give a shlt about your community and support businesses that risked personal capital to open businesse while you sit on your fat duff collecting W-2s and complaining that you actually have to travel into the city to work, like we did for the previous 60 years.

If you have a serious lowered immunity issue, I feel for you. You deserve accommodation. But all these whiners crying about having to come back into an office, shut up already.

I can’t imagine with your sparkling personality why you are out of work and have struggled to find a full time job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC government employees need to come back to the office. My company and many others in downtown DC started requiring 3-4 days in the office each week in early 2022. We are not paying these employees DC salaries so that they can work from home in Frederick. If they don't like it, then quit. 50% of DC government employees are slackers anyway. We can use those vacancies to hire more energized people.

Completely agree. As someone who has been struggling to find a full time job, I am sick and tired of feds and DC government workers whining and crying about the indignity of actually having to come into an office. You losers have had it great for FOUR years now. This isn't 2020 nor 2021. I don't think employers should be mandating five days a week in the office by gunpoint, but three or four is more than reasonable.

If you were dumb enough to decamp to an exurb or make crazy personal life choices to try to take advantage of the depths of the pandemic or chose to raise your children in PW County or some other crazy location, that is on you. Not going to shed any tears for you.

And this is especially rich coming from DC government paper pushers who pretend they have some incredible skillset that will be instantly in demand once they hit the private sector. Don't like it? Go get yourself a new job in the private sector. You are replaceable, never forget that. You don't have to buy $17 lunches. I never did. But you DO have to give a shlt about your community and support businesses that risked personal capital to open businesse while you sit on your fat duff collecting W-2s and complaining that you actually have to travel into the city to work, like we did for the previous 60 years.

If you have a serious lowered immunity issue, I feel for you. You deserve accommodation. But all these whiners crying about having to come back into an office, shut up already.

For. The. Last. Time.

DC Gov workers have had to come in to the office three days a week for at least two years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC government employees need to come back to the office. My company and many others in downtown DC started requiring 3-4 days in the office each week in early 2022. We are not paying these employees DC salaries so that they can work from home in Frederick. If they don't like it, then quit. 50% of DC government employees are slackers anyway. We can use those vacancies to hire more energized people.

Completely agree. As someone who has been struggling to find a full time job, I am sick and tired of feds and DC government workers whining and crying about the indignity of actually having to come into an office. You losers have had it great for FOUR years now. This isn't 2020 nor 2021. I don't think employers should be mandating five days a week in the office by gunpoint, but three or four is more than reasonable.

If you were dumb enough to decamp to an exurb or make crazy personal life choices to try to take advantage of the depths of the pandemic or chose to raise your children in PW County or some other crazy location, that is on you. Not going to shed any tears for you.

And this is especially rich coming from DC government paper pushers who pretend they have some incredible skillset that will be instantly in demand once they hit the private sector. Don't like it? Go get yourself a new job in the private sector. You are replaceable, never forget that. You don't have to buy $17 lunches. I never did. But you DO have to give a shlt about your community and support businesses that risked personal capital to open businesse while you sit on your fat duff collecting W-2s and complaining that you actually have to travel into the city to work, like we did for the previous 60 years.

If you have a serious lowered immunity issue, I feel for you. You deserve accommodation. But all these whiners crying about having to come back into an office, shut up already.

Sounds like you're taking out your unemployment woes on the wrong people. Much of what you have said here is incorrect but I don't care enough to correct you. Good luck on finding that job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is their justification for not providing a COLA? I’m a former DC gov employee and they were usually pretty good about getting that done. Bowswer must be in dire straits.

Saying they don’t have the funding to justify it

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Anonymous wrote:this is because biden won't order federal employees back to the office. bowser is trying to get him to do that and this is a way to try to increase the pressure.

Oh please. There’s no good reasons for Feds to RTO (or anyone else), especially if that’s just to support the DC economy. For Bowser to think that this is going to do anything is ludicrous and shows nothing but her desperation. No one in the Admin pays attention to her.

Many cities are having this issue. Don't just blame Bowser. I don't like her, but people need to get back to the office.

I took a Fed job based on the fact it's 1 day a month telework. Prior to that, I was a SAHM. We don't *need* my meager salary but it's nice to have a little extra, takes some pressure off DH as the sole provider, plus it's something to do while the kids are in school. My DH has weird work hours so the telework factor is what makes it all possible for me in the first place; to work around other needs at home. I'm not sure what sort of schedule my office had pre-Covid, but I will absolutely quit if I have to add 3 hours a day commuting to/from downtown.

So you took a job so you could work from home one day a month?? That makes no sense.

Pardon my typo. Had you read the rest of my response, you might have figured out I meant to type telework with only 1 day a month in office.

Except you didn’t. You seem exactly like the kind of mediocre worker DC government, or really any employer, could do without.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this is because biden won't order federal employees back to the office. bowser is trying to get him to do that and this is a way to try to increase the pressure.

Oh please. There’s no good reasons for Feds to RTO (or anyone else), especially if that’s just to support the DC economy. For Bowser to think that this is going to do anything is ludicrous and shows nothing but her desperation. No one in the Admin pays attention to her.

Many cities are having this issue. Don't just blame Bowser. I don't like her, but people need to get back to the office.

I took a Fed job based on the fact it's 1 day a month telework. Prior to that, I was a SAHM. We don't *need* my meager salary but it's nice to have a little extra, takes some pressure off DH as the sole provider, plus it's something to do while the kids are in school. My DH has weird work hours so the telework factor is what makes it all possible for me in the first place; to work around other needs at home. I'm not sure what sort of schedule my office had pre-Covid, but I will absolutely quit if I have to add 3 hours a day commuting to/from downtown.

So you took a job so you could work from home one day a month?? That makes no sense.

Pardon my typo. Had you read the rest of my response, you might have figured out I meant to type telework with only 1 day a month in office.

So quit. No one cares if you quit or keep working. Doubtful you are adding much value any way

[Anonymous]

She should have said 5 days a week because you know most dc government workers are slackers and will treat every Friday like a 3 day weekend.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this is because biden won't order federal employees back to the office. bowser is trying to get him to do that and this is a way to try to increase the pressure.

Oh please. There’s no good reasons for Feds to RTO (or anyone else), especially if that’s just to support the DC economy. For Bowser to think that this is going to do anything is ludicrous and shows nothing but her desperation. No one in the Admin pays attention to her.

Many cities are having this issue. Don't just blame Bowser. I don't like her, but people need to get back to the office.

I took a Fed job based on the fact it's 1 day a month telework. Prior to that, I was a SAHM. We don't *need* my meager salary but it's nice to have a little extra, takes some pressure off DH as the sole provider, plus it's something to do while the kids are in school. My DH has weird work hours so the telework factor is what makes it all possible for me in the first place; to work around other needs at home. I'm not sure what sort of schedule my office had pre-Covid, but I will absolutely quit if I have to add 3 hours a day commuting to/from downtown.

So you took a job so you could work from home one day a month?? That makes no sense.

Pardon my typo. Had you read the rest of my response, you might have figured out I meant to type telework with only 1 day a month in office.

So quit. No one cares if you quit or keep working. Doubtful you are adding much value any way

Not really the flex you think that is. If I have to quit due to increased in office demands, WHO do you think is going to fill my position? LOL. Before this position came available, I turned down a contractor job within the same agency that I didn't even apply for and paid more than double my current salary- the catch was in office 4 days a week. I suspect they had trouble filling it since the recruiter kept circling back to me every 6 weeks or so for several months to see if my situation had changed. These are all Fed related jobs but I guarantee DC city employees are having similar thoughts right now, especially if they are lower paid to start with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If DC government wants people to come back into town then they need to do A WHOLE LOT MORE about the out-of-control carjackings, armed robberies, and the dangerous drivers. People just don't feel safe. Mayor, MPD, Council, AGs, Judges and everyone else all need to step up and accept this reality and realize they need to make changes.

Stop crying. Quit your job and stay home if you're scared. Or shut up and get to the office.

Piss off, dickweed. You don't get to tell anyone what to do.