What is your federal agency telling you re: RTO? (No other rants/comments!)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

This is what I am wondering about -- meetings in other offices (at other agencies). If I go across town, do I need permission from my boss now? Do I need to put that on my time card? As what?

I get that the SES are terrified of losing their jobs now and are going to follow the orders, so I'm not going to feel bad for making their lives miserable for making mine miserable.

Indeed. This way most face to face meeting will be avoided, which is a pity. I've started multiple joint interagency programs/initiatives because of informal catch ups after these in person face-face meetings in the past.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

I legit thought that was spam and reported it

There was an email yesterday alerting us that we will be receiving the OPM email and it was not spam.

I didn’t get any email like that from my agency. The OPM email looked super suspicious, had no identifying info, etc. it looked like a phishing attempt.

We got the heads up email and I still thought the OPM email looked fishy. At a minimum they could have been like “per our prior communication regarding the new OPM email…” but that is probably expecting too much from them

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

I legit thought that was spam and reported it

There was an email yesterday alerting us that we will be receiving the OPM email and it was not spam.

I didn’t get any email like that from my agency. The OPM email looked super suspicious, had no identifying info, etc. it looked like a phishing attempt.

We got the heads up email and I still thought the OPM email looked fishy. At a minimum they could have been like “per our prior communication regarding the new OPM email…” but that is probably expecting too much from them

report it as a phishing attempt.

[Anonymous]

I got 5 copies of the OPM email…reported them all as phishing

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AI will spit out the names of those who are not complying or those who are in the grey zone.

They already have been for about 2 years. Departmental HR, GAO, and OPM have been collecting data every month--badge swipes and timesheets.

The badge swipes thing is so weird to me. I have to swipe through a main turnstile and then a large door to get to my office. The security folks frequently open the main turnstile for employees they know well. People frequently come in/out of the large door, so again, it isn't uncommon for someone to hold the door open or use one badge to allow multiple people through. It's totally possible to work a full day in-office at my office without ever swiping your PIV.

The people who have been analyzing the data the past 2 years don't care about one-off aberrations, they are looking for patterns of cheating. At least two people in my directorate were caught.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AI will spit out the names of those who are not complying or those who are in the grey zone.

They already have been for about 2 years. Departmental HR, GAO, and OPM have been collecting data every month--badge swipes and timesheets.

The badge swipes thing is so weird to me. I have to swipe through a main turnstile and then a large door to get to my office. The security folks frequently open the main turnstile for employees they know well. People frequently come in/out of the large door, so again, it isn't uncommon for someone to hold the door open or use one badge to allow multiple people through. It's totally possible to work a full day in-office at my office without ever swiping your PIV.

The people who have been analyzing the data the past 2 years don't care about one-off aberrations, they are looking for patterns of cheating. At least two people in my directorate were caught.

for what, and what happened to them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AI will spit out the names of those who are not complying or those who are in the grey zone.

They already have been for about 2 years. Departmental HR, GAO, and OPM have been collecting data every month--badge swipes and timesheets.

That’s not how GAO audits work, babe.

I was told 3 agencies were getting the data: OPM, OMB, and GAO. That doesn't mean GAO was analyzing the data (maybe OMB did the analysis, maybe OPM), just that Congress wanted a copy of the data. I believe some other sub-agency is watching IP addresses to see where people are using their laptops.

At my agency during the pandemic they installed new turnstiles which require a PIV card read to enter or exit the building. Some people did get in trouble for PIVing in and then immediately leaving to go home to telework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

I legit thought that was spam and reported it

There was an email yesterday alerting us that we will be receiving the OPM email and it was not spam.

I didn’t get any email like that from my agency. The OPM email looked super suspicious, had no identifying info, etc. it looked like a phishing attempt.

We got the heads up email and I still thought the OPM email looked fishy. At a minimum they could have been like “per our prior communication regarding the new OPM email…” but that is probably expecting too much from them

report it as a phishing attempt.

Please don’t! I have been answering the phishing emails all morning. So painful!! It is your agency cybersecurity office that has to deal with phishing emails. We didn’t tell OPM to send it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

I legit thought that was spam and reported it

There was an email yesterday alerting us that we will be receiving the OPM email and it was not spam.

I didn’t get any email like that from my agency. The OPM email looked super suspicious, had no identifying info, etc. it looked like a phishing attempt.

We got the heads up email and I still thought the OPM email looked fishy. At a minimum they could have been like “per our prior communication regarding the new OPM email…” but that is probably expecting too much from them

report it as a phishing attempt.

Please don’t! I have been answering the phishing emails all morning. So painful!! It is your agency cybersecurity office that has to deal with phishing emails. We didn’t tell OPM to send it.

Sorry!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AI will spit out the names of those who are not complying or those who are in the grey zone.

They already have been for about 2 years. Departmental HR, GAO, and OPM have been collecting data every month--badge swipes and timesheets.

That’s not how GAO audits work, babe.

I was told 3 agencies were getting the data: OPM, OMB, and GAO. That doesn't mean GAO was analyzing the data (maybe OMB did the analysis, maybe OPM), just that Congress wanted a copy of the data. I believe some other sub-agency is watching IP addresses to see where people are using their laptops.

At my agency during the pandemic they installed new turnstiles which require a PIV card read to enter or exit the building. Some people did get in trouble for PIVing in and then immediately leaving to go home to telework.

And who told you this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

I legit thought that was spam and reported it

There was an email yesterday alerting us that we will be receiving the OPM email and it was not spam.

I didn’t get any email like that from my agency. The OPM email looked super suspicious, had no identifying info, etc. it looked like a phishing attempt.

We got the heads up email and I still thought the OPM email looked fishy. At a minimum they could have been like “per our prior communication regarding the new OPM email…” but that is probably expecting too much from them

report it as a phishing attempt.

Please don’t! I have been answering the phishing emails all morning. So painful!! It is your agency cybersecurity office that has to deal with phishing emails. We didn’t tell OPM to send it.

sorry, need to be certain based on what we've been instructed in all of the security trainings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

I legit thought that was spam and reported it

There was an email yesterday alerting us that we will be receiving the OPM email and it was not spam.

I didn’t get any email like that from my agency. The OPM email looked super suspicious, had no identifying info, etc. it looked like a phishing attempt.

We got the heads up email and I still thought the OPM email looked fishy. At a minimum they could have been like “per our prior communication regarding the new OPM email…” but that is probably expecting too much from them

report it as a phishing attempt.

Please don’t! I have been answering the phishing emails all morning. So painful!! It is your agency cybersecurity office that has to deal with phishing emails. We didn’t tell OPM to send it.

Then OPM needs to do a better job making it clear their emails aren't spam....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

Can’t wait for a foreign bad actor to exploit this and send something similar from a fake DOGE account, “click here to acknowledge receipt.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

Can’t wait for a foreign bad actor to exploit this and send something similar from a fake DOGE account, “click here to acknowledge receipt.”

Very easy to report phishing in outlook. Just click on the button at the upper right hand corner that says “report phishing.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OPM just sent out an email that is a "Distribution and Response List" and we are supposed to click on it. They could simply send the memo directly without having to go through Agency heads. Agencies will of course have to come up with plans/designations etc within 30 days but the intent will be communicated.

Our agency has still not communicated their plans so we have to wait and see how it pans out.

We are any way at 6 days/PP. Don't mind if they set it to 8 but having the flexibility of 1 day of telework/week would be nice (that's what we had before Covid). I pity my supervisor who will have to sign off on countless situational telework requests as so many of us have downtown meetings etc.

I legit thought that was spam and reported it

There was an email yesterday alerting us that we will be receiving the OPM email and it was not spam.

I didn’t get any email like that from my agency. The OPM email looked super suspicious, had no identifying info, etc. it looked like a phishing attempt.

We got the heads up email and I still thought the OPM email looked fishy. At a minimum they could have been like “per our prior communication regarding the new OPM email…” but that is probably expecting too much from them

report it as a phishing attempt.

Please don’t! I have been answering the phishing emails all morning. So painful!! It is your agency cybersecurity office that has to deal with phishing emails. We didn’t tell OPM to send it.

It’s job security for you