Two hour school delay yet OPM status is normal

[Anonymous]

This is why you get a bad rep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:most Feds are not expected to walk the sideways stand outside waiting for a bus. Almost all students are.

But like half of feds have kids at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have they always been in synch in the past? Is that a norm or standard?

No. It's frustrating when school closes while government doesn't, but they've never been directly linked.

OPM should be thinking about the safety of commuters, including those who take the bus and those who live in icy areas. But fwiw, main roads were fine this morning.

[Anonymous]

indifference and cruelty

Figuring out care for your children for 2 hours is not cruelty. Good lord get some perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private sector and since we have equipment to work from home, there is never a delay or day off for weather. Take your paid leave, find a neighbor to help, or make sure you have a drop-in contract with before/after care if your kids are in elementary. People have been figuring this out for years. You do not need OPM to gift you 2 free hours.

Fed here- we'd gladly telework the two hours. It's not an option, but of course we have the equipment to work from home

[Anonymous]

I was at work at 6am in an exburb (where it's colder). Roads were perfect and didn't see black ice anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at work at 6am in an exburb (where it's colder). Roads were perfect and didn't see black ice anywhere.

Meaning that school should not have had a delay. School needs to get it together. My kids are walkers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private sector and since we have equipment to work from home, there is never a delay or day off for weather. Take your paid leave, find a neighbor to help, or make sure you have a drop-in contract with before/after care if your kids are in elementary. People have been figuring this out for years. You do not need OPM to gift you 2 free hours.

I don't think OPM needed to delay, but there is a lot of ignorance in your post. Feds can no longer work from home, and before-care is not open on time when schools are on weather delay. The official government policy cannot be "find a neighbor," that's stupid.

The answer is PTO. Except, technically, Feds need advance permission to take PTO, which is why OPM has a status called liberal leave. That may have been appropriate today.

[Anonymous]

They’ve never been in sync. Government workers are obnoxiously entitled. Take leave if you can’t make it in. That is what private sector does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’ve never been in sync. Government workers are obnoxiously entitled. Take leave if you can’t make it in. That is what private sector does.

As the pp above explained it, feds cannot just take leave instantly. They need prior approval.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PGCPS also has a delay.

I don’t know what the logic is - I guess that it will be light out? It certainly won’t be thawed.

Local politicians should run on this issue because they would get so much support from parents. It is pretty crazy how bad school is at being open.

The priority for school is safety for children, not helping you save PTO. Make friends with a SAHP or retiree who you can give a few bucks for dropping your kid at school on late opening days.

[Anonymous]

Which school system should OPM follow since they all make different decisions?

This is as impractical as it is stupid.

[Anonymous]

Maybe school systems need to get in sync with OPM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PGCPS also has a delay.

I don’t know what the logic is - I guess that it will be light out? It certainly won’t be thawed.

Local politicians should run on this issue because they would get so much support from parents. It is pretty crazy how bad school is at being open.

The priority for school is safety for children, not helping you save PTO. Make friends with a SAHP or retiree who you can give a few bucks for dropping your kid at school on late opening days.

I will never stop being shocked at the entitlement of thinking retirees and sahps should watch other people's kids (or that everybody has a safe neighbor to leave their kids with).

This is a transit policy issue first. People don't want to pay for sidewalks, bus shelters, better lighting, a crew to shovel sidewalks, etc. But that's what it would take to avoid most weather delays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’ve never been in sync. Government workers are obnoxiously entitled. Take leave if you can’t make it in. That is what private sector does.

Do you, private sector worker, have to work all of your hours in an actual office? Didn’t think so.
This wasn’t an issue before because we could telework when this happened, you know, back when Fed were treated as humans.