RTO is a myth/joke

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I can't WFH, I work in the medical field so my job will always be in person. Even in blizzard/hurricane/whatever conditions I've had to sleep at the hospital because I am expected to be at work.

I will never understand the absolute vitriol about WFH/RTO. You realize most of you sound like immature idiots right? So you're jealous some people have a better work/life balance or work schedule than you. Ok, change jobs instead of attacking them. So someone makes a snide remark about you working from home? Ignore it instead of making some snide comeback.

Seriously this forum is supposed to be composed of mature adults and it's like a middle school schoolyard in here with the maturity level.


I find it so interesting how people have no problem with some jobs being paid more than others, but will die on the hill of someone else having some intangible flexibility they don’t have.

Like totally fine that some rich kid’s parents pay for his fancy education and hook him up with the right internships and networking and then he makes $$$. But God forbid a GS-12 get to work from home in Silver Spring a couple days per week so they can try to keep their heads above water as a working parent.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can't WFH, I work in the medical field so my job will always be in person. Even in blizzard/hurricane/whatever conditions I've had to sleep at the hospital because I am expected to be at work.

I will never understand the absolute vitriol about WFH/RTO. You realize most of you sound like immature idiots right? So you're jealous some people have a better work/life balance or work schedule than you. Ok, change jobs instead of attacking them. So someone makes a snide remark about you working from home? Ignore it instead of making some snide comeback.

Seriously this forum is supposed to be composed of mature adults and it's like a middle school schoolyard in here with the maturity level.


I find it so interesting how people have no problem with some jobs being paid more than others, but will die on the hill of someone else having some intangible flexibility they don’t have.

Like totally fine that some rich kid’s parents pay for his fancy education and hook him up with the right internships and networking and then he makes $$$. But God forbid a GS-12 get to work from home in Silver Spring a couple days per week so they can try to keep their heads above water as a working parent.


It's even worse than that. They called in core telework GS7 and 9s. I'm one of them.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I can't WFH, I work in the medical field so my job will always be in person. Even in blizzard/hurricane/whatever conditions I've had to sleep at the hospital because I am expected to be at work.

I will never understand the absolute vitriol about WFH/RTO. You realize most of you sound like immature idiots right? So you're jealous some people have a better work/life balance or work schedule than you. Ok, change jobs instead of attacking them. So someone makes a snide remark about you working from home? Ignore it instead of making some snide comeback.

Seriously this forum is supposed to be composed of mature adults and it's like a middle school schoolyard in here with the maturity level.


No one is teleworking. OP started this thread to declare reality isn't real.

I turn my life upside-down to be in the office as required. While I'm there I get told all kinds of nonsense about wasteful feds. And then after work I get to read on DCUM that it didn't happen and I was teleworking, by which OP means not working. So yes, I will post a merry F-U to OP.
Anonymous
July 10, 2025 article: “New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ign0ring RTO Orders”
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:July 10, 2025 article: “New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ign0ring RTO Orders”


Cool but they aren’t Feds. I don’t know a single Fed in my agency who is ignoring RTO. A few have reasonable accommodations.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:July 10, 2025 article: “New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ign0ring RTO Orders”


Cool but they aren’t Feds. I don’t know a single Fed in my agency who is ignoring RTO. A few have reasonable accommodations.


Sure.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:July 10, 2025 article: “New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ign0ring RTO Orders”


Cool but they aren’t Feds. I don’t know a single Fed in my agency who is ignoring RTO. A few have reasonable accommodations.


And you know this, how? People must really confide in you if everyone who doesn’t come in explains to you that they have an RA.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:July 10, 2025 article: “New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ign0ring RTO Orders”


This article is about Fortune 500 companies. It is not about feds and does not mention feds.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:July 10, 2025 article: “New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ign0ring RTO Orders”


Cool but they aren’t Feds. I don’t know a single Fed in my agency who is ignoring RTO. A few have reasonable accommodations.


And you know this, how? People must really confide in you if everyone who doesn’t come in explains to you that they have an RA.


I don’t know of anyone at our office who is teleworking. When I reach out to someone on our team, none are ever teleworking

I could totally imagine if someone was teleworking they would announce far and wide they have an RA — they would be a huge outlier.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:July 10, 2025 article: “New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ign0ring RTO Orders”


Cool but they aren’t Feds. I don’t know a single Fed in my agency who is ignoring RTO. A few have reasonable accommodations.


And you know this, how? People must really confide in you if everyone who doesn’t come in explains to you that they have an RA.


I don’t know of anyone at our office who is teleworking. When I reach out to someone on our team, none are ever teleworking

I could totally imagine if someone was teleworking they would announce far and wide they have an RA — they would be a huge outlier.


My org backtracked on telework because they couldn't fit everyone in the building (we were remote pre covid) and productivity had tanked.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed and no one is teleworking. NO ONE. Contractors are still teleworking nonstop though.

Several people do work 6-2:30, as the parking lot is pretty full by 6am.

I take every Friday off in the summer. DH and I trade who picks up and drops off, so he does drop off at 9 and I pick up at 3:30.


You sound a little bitter. Guess what? Before when all the Feds were teleworking but required to come in once eery two weeks, my team was required to be in the office 3 days a week minimum (I was there four). When you were forced to RTO, there was no space left in the office and we were told that we were not allowed to come into the office anymore. Even after all of the DRPs, etc., we are still not allowed in the office even though now there's empty seats. I've asked, but have been told there's no hotel space for contractors. So pack up your bitterness, blame the administration and the senior leadership in your department, don't blame the contractors. Many of us were in the office far more than the Feds for the past several years.
Anonymous
Most of my friends that are Feds are straggering their schedules (one is working 7 - 3 and the other is working 9-5) so they can do drop off and pick up. Of course this only works at an agency with 9-3 core hours, I know some have 9-5 and those people are taking leave to pick up their kids
Anonymous
I spent my 90-minute drive in stop and go traffic this morning to a federal office listening to reports that DC has the worst traffic in the nation, worse than LA, due to RTO. So....
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I spent my 90-minute drive in stop and go traffic this morning to a federal office listening to reports that DC has the worst traffic in the nation, worse than LA, due to RTO. So....


Obviously what you experienced is mythical, per OP.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:July 10, 2025 article: “New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ign0ring RTO Orders”


Cool but they aren’t Feds. I don’t know a single Fed in my agency who is ignoring RTO. A few have reasonable accommodations.


And you know this, how? People must really confide in you if everyone who doesn’t come in explains to you that they have an RA.


Why do you care so much about what others do? Get a hobby!
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