Feds Only Reasonable Accomodations

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting on mine. Multiple mental heath conditions that require sleep hygiene and medications not compatible with daily 4 hours spent commuting.

OMG

I’m guessing agencies are going to get flooded with requests based on mental health conditions. They will all get denied.

Well, the ADA doesn’t just disappear because Elon Musk says so. People have rights!

Except that, if I recall correctly, the public trust screening every federal employee goes through includes some language that enables your employer to take away your job if you have certain types of mental health issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would a reasonable accommodation help to avoid a RIF? This is for a group that hasn’t yet returned. It would be a legitimate RA for a physical disability that developed this year. Lots of legit medical documentation.

No, and I think it could cut the other way. The A in DEIA is for accessibility. This administration doesn’t like the disabled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting on mine. Multiple mental heath conditions that require sleep hygiene and medications not compatible with daily 4 hours spent commuting.

why do you live so far away? I say this as I got a pied a tier across the street from my office when I had a very long round trip commute. Actually was relaxing. Even more so than WFH. Had best of both worlds.

Presumably you weren’t doing much parenting from your pied a tier. If she parents, she can’t very well do what you did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would a reasonable accommodation help to avoid a RIF? This is for a group that hasn’t yet returned. It would be a legitimate RA for a physical disability that developed this year. Lots of legit medical documentation.

No, and I think it could cut the other way. The A in DEIA is for accessibility. This administration doesn’t like the disabled.

+1. I think a disability definitely puts a target on your back. Not for a RIF though, I think they will have your management scrutinize you very closely to look for reasons to fire you. Every typo, following every direction exactly in form and substance, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting on mine. Multiple mental heath conditions that require sleep hygiene and medications not compatible with daily 4 hours spent commuting.

OMG

I’m guessing agencies are going to get flooded with requests based on mental health conditions. They will all get denied.

Well, the ADA doesn’t just disappear because Elon Musk says so. People have rights!

They do, but that doesn’t mean most of these requests are going to be granted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting on mine. Multiple mental heath conditions that require sleep hygiene and medications not compatible with daily 4 hours spent commuting.

OMG

I’m guessing agencies are going to get flooded with requests based on mental health conditions. They will all get denied.

Well, the ADA doesn’t just disappear because Elon Musk says so. People have rights!

They do, but that doesn’t mean most of these requests are going to be granted.

If they are not granted, all the employee needs to do is hire a lawyer and have them file a lawsuit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting on mine. Multiple mental heath conditions that require sleep hygiene and medications not compatible with daily 4 hours spent commuting.

I believe you that your mental health isn’t compatible with commuting 4 hours but I hope you didn’t say “sleep hygiene” in your request. I also suspect you will get denied because living 2 hours away from the office is a choice. No one’s mental health is compatible with 4 hours of commuting. But I hope it works out for you!

This is why people resent Feds. I am not Trump supporter and have mental health issues but… WTF interpreting the ADA to cover crap like this is ridiculous. Reasonably accommodate your darn self, 4-hour-commute PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting on mine. Multiple mental heath conditions that require sleep hygiene and medications not compatible with daily 4 hours spent commuting.

why do you live so far away? I say this as I got a pied a tier across the street from my office when I had a very long round trip commute. Actually was relaxing. Even more so than WFH. Had best of both worlds.

Presumably you weren’t doing much parenting from your pied a tier. If she parents, she can’t very well do what you did.

Why not. My cousin is a "career women" she works in DC during week or Boston. Her company has headquarters DC and smaller location Boston. She commutes every we week and has kids. Her huband is remote and he does the kids stuff. She is very present when home. It is actually better her away. He has a maid to clean house weekly. With her gone one less meal to cook.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was interesting that my doctors' office put up a note on their website that they have received many recent RA requests for telework and their view is that few conditions require telework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting on mine. Multiple mental heath conditions that require sleep hygiene and medications not compatible with daily 4 hours spent commuting.

why do you live so far away? I say this as I got a pied a tier across the street from my office when I had a very long round trip commute. Actually was relaxing. Even more so than WFH. Had best of both worlds.

I’ve been in the same house since 2016. I live near the metro. I was hired for a fully remote position and my colleagues live all around the country. Even before Covid, almost no people in my office were commuting 5 days a week. The office I report to used to be in downtown DC but moved out of DC and is now 90-120 min by car or over 2 hours each way by Metro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting on mine. Multiple mental heath conditions that require sleep hygiene and medications not compatible with daily 4 hours spent commuting.

I believe you that your mental health isn’t compatible with commuting 4 hours but I hope you didn’t say “sleep hygiene” in your request. I also suspect you will get denied because living 2 hours away from the office is a choice. No one’s mental health is compatible with 4 hours of commuting. But I hope it works out for you!

This is why people resent Feds. I am not Trump supporter and have mental health issues but… WTF interpreting the ADA to cover crap like this is ridiculous. Reasonably accommodate your darn self, 4-hour-commute PP.

OK, how do you propose I reasonable accommodate myself, PP?

[Anonymous]

You are going to have to move closer to your employer’s location, I’m afraid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still waiting on mine. Multiple mental heath conditions that require sleep hygiene and medications not compatible with daily 4 hours spent commuting.

why do you live so far away? I say this as I got a pied a tier across the street from my office when I had a very long round trip commute. Actually was relaxing. Even more so than WFH. Had best of both worlds.

Presumably you weren’t doing much parenting from your pied a tier. If she parents, she can’t very well do what you did.

Why not. My cousin is a "career women" she works in DC during week or Boston. Her company has headquarters DC and smaller location Boston. She commutes every we week and has kids. Her huband is remote and he does the kids stuff. She is very present when home. It is actually better her away. He has a maid to clean house weekly. With her gone one less meal to cook.

That's great if you can afford that kind of help. We don't have a housekeeper and its been a nightmare with RTO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would a reasonable accommodation help to avoid a RIF? This is for a group that hasn’t yet returned. It would be a legitimate RA for a physical disability that developed this year. Lots of legit medical documentation.

No, and I think it could cut the other way. The A in DEIA is for accessibility. This administration doesn’t like the disabled.

Ugh so if the person goes in instead of trying to get RA they will have certain devices that identify them as disabled. So bad news either way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are going to have to move closer to your employer’s location, I’m afraid.

My kids are in high school, I am a single mom, and the area near my employer’s location is a high crime area. Who is being reasonable?