What is going to happen to the RTO?

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The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

lol who do you work with? Chuck ezell?

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

Where do you work? The FDA commissioner disagrees with you.

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Kinda surprised folks went public w this after expressly being told not to. Pretty sure if they reverse course at this stage they will rapidly lose folks.

This is the way it should be. If employees have proven themselves to be trustworthy and hardworking, let them work remotely.

That’s not what’s happening. They’re doing this because if they lose more staff in specific divisions, it will trigger a massive funding cut that will fully shutdown the FDA. They need a carrot to keep the reviewers they have left. They let the wrong people take early retirement and buyouts, and they scared off more with their mean spirited layoffs.

Too bad Sara Brenner spent all her time jogging and dancing around her office instead of pushing back on DOGE when she was in charge. She could have prevented this. Now Makary has to kowtow in front of the Secretary and the White House to get an RTO exemption. It’s a good thing he’s so short. He’s already closer to the ground.

Any date when this might also extend to DOJ and we can WFH again?

This whole idea of people just coming to the office every single day is ridiculous and unworkable long term:

I think DOJ may experience a world of pain before RTO comes back. It’s been eerily quiet since the reorg memo came out.

I would think DOJ would be among the last to come back in any meaningful way.

Wtf? We’ve been back longer than lots of agencies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

Well trolled there. In reality, there has been a noticeable drop in email traffic and meetings scheduled between 8am-10am and 4-6pm because of the increased commute times.

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

Well trolled there. In reality, there has been a noticeable drop in email traffic and meetings scheduled between 8am-10am and 4-6pm because of the increased commute times.

I have been scheduling a series of meetings with high level decision makers in my agency with our day to day team and external shareholders. It’s crazy how hard it has become to do this because of the number of days completely blocked off for the day to day team. People have to now take full days off where a one hour doctors appointment. It is not at all efficient.

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The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

We were in person 3 days per week previously. What is it about the other two days that you feel has brought about this massive sea change you are alluding to?

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

You should all be carpooling or taking the metro. Learn how to drive with courtesy and not like angry psychos. I can tell who is an angry fed and who is not

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

You should all be carpooling or taking the metro. Learn how to drive with courtesy and not like angry psychos. I can tell who is an angry fed and who is not

What are you going to do with you newfound talent?

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

Newbies? You are aware we are all under hiring freezes, right? The average tenure at my agency, per DOGE itself, is 13 years.

GTFO, troll.

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I will say that I do like seeing coworkers. It’s been the only bright spot in this entire mess. But I’d love to telework Monday and Fridays.

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

You should all be carpooling or taking the metro. Learn how to drive with courtesy and not like angry psychos. I can tell who is an angry fed and who is not

Its not just feds who went back. Not every job is near a metro or you have co-workers who work the same hours that you can carpool with.

Most people are still doing video calls. Most people aren't collaborating. Managers hide in office. My spouse works much less as they used to flex and work all hours. Now its 8 hours in the office, no weekend/no evening with a 2-3 hour commute. So, company gets less time as he'd work that commute time. He also is pushing back on doing things that he used to do that weren't part of his job description that got dumped on him.

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

You should all be carpooling or taking the metro. Learn how to drive with courtesy and not like angry psychos. I can tell who is an angry fed and who is not

How many people are in your carpool? And why are you carpooling at all? You should have moved somewhere closer to the office. This is your fault.

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

You should all be carpooling or taking the metro. Learn how to drive with courtesy and not like angry psychos. I can tell who is an angry fed and who is not

How many people are in your carpool? And why are you carpooling at all? You should have moved somewhere closer to the office. This is your fault.

No I worked here first. You all were flicking your beans at home for the last five years

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Anonymous wrote:The RTO has been great. People are productive. They are collaborating more. They are answering their phones. There is a team feeling among the newbies. There is sharing and learning being accomplished. It is terrific. Sorry about the commute, but otherwise it has been a good thing.

You should all be carpooling or taking the metro. Learn how to drive with courtesy and not like angry psychos. I can tell who is an angry fed and who is not

How many people are in your carpool? And why are you carpooling at all? You should have moved somewhere closer to the office. This is your fault.

No I worked here first. You all were flicking your beans at home for the last five years

You do realize some people actual work and were working from home long before covid. What's going on at home that you cannot handle being at home? Or are you the problem?