PSA some of you are about to lose your WFH status!

[Anonymous]

I don’t think I am the intended audience for this post. My job does not require such things.

[Anonymous]

Work from home needs to go. COVID is long gone and everyone needs to get back into the office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work from home needs to go. COVID is long gone and everyone needs to get back into the office.

If you had any authority to enact that anywhere, you wouldn't be demanding it here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work from home needs to go. COVID is long gone and everyone needs to get back into the office.

I supervise people on WFH. They've been hitting their metrics and making everyone come back in, we'd have to spend more money on office space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very specific to your job, OP. It sounds like you are a government worker and this is specific to your agency or division within an agency. Send the PSA to your co-workers, not to the entire internet!

I don't think OP is a government worker because he said "Some of your are about to lose your WFH status". Feds workers are not allowed to WFH.

This is not true. It’s an open secret that Fed workers under the Treasury Union still telework. Agencies like the Treasury, SEC, FDIC and NCUA. Their offices are unoccupied 80% of the time. It’s a ghost town. On average they are allowed telework about 4 days a week, same as before the Doge. Why do you think the beltway and grocery stores in the DMV are so crowded between 10 am - 2 pm? Which is not your traditional commuting time. Feds are running errands and goofing off instead of working. Bring back the Doge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very specific to your job, OP. It sounds like you are a government worker and this is specific to your agency or division within an agency. Send the PSA to your co-workers, not to the entire internet!

I don't think OP is a government worker because he said "Some of your are about to lose your WFH status". Feds workers are not allowed to WFH.

This is not true. It’s an open secret that Fed workers under the Treasury Union still telework. Agencies like the Treasury, SEC, FDIC and NCUA. Their offices are unoccupied 80% of the time. It’s a ghost town. On average they are allowed telework about 4 days a week, same as before the Doge. Why do you think the beltway and grocery stores in the DMV are so crowded between 10 am - 2 pm? Which is not your traditional commuting time. Feds are running errands and goofing off instead of working. Bring back the Doge.

Do they have "SEC" hats and that's how you're identifying them at Safeway? Are you there every day taking notes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very specific to your job, OP. It sounds like you are a government worker and this is specific to your agency or division within an agency. Send the PSA to your co-workers, not to the entire internet!

I don't think OP is a government worker because he said "Some of your are about to lose your WFH status". Feds workers are not allowed to WFH.

This is not true. It’s an open secret that Fed workers under the Treasury Union still telework. Agencies like the Treasury, SEC, FDIC and NCUA. Their offices are unoccupied 80% of the time. It’s a ghost town. On average they are allowed telework about 4 days a week, same as before the Doge. Why do you think the beltway and grocery stores in the DMV are so crowded between 10 am - 2 pm? Which is not your traditional commuting time. Feds are running errands and goofing off instead of working. Bring back the Doge.

My friend who works at Treasury has to go into the office full-time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you mean to post this internally? Because it’s useless to post it here.

Yes, this is weird. My workplace doesn't require daily summaries.

If you're supervising people and they aren't doing a job requirement, talk to them.

Who in the micromanager makes you submit daily summaries?! Leave the babysitting to the nanny forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very specific to your job, OP. It sounds like you are a government worker and this is specific to your agency or division within an agency. Send the PSA to your co-workers, not to the entire internet!

I don't think OP is a government worker because he said "Some of your are about to lose your WFH status". Feds workers are not allowed to WFH.

This is not true. It’s an open secret that Fed workers under the Treasury Union still telework. Agencies like the Treasury, SEC, FDIC and NCUA. Their offices are unoccupied 80% of the time. It’s a ghost town. On average they are allowed telework about 4 days a week, same as before the Doge. Why do you think the beltway and grocery stores in the DMV are so crowded between 10 am - 2 pm? Which is not your traditional commuting time. Feds are running errands and goofing off instead of working. Bring back the Doge.

I'm at one of the named agencies and we are in the office full time. Sorry the grocery store is crowded but it's not us.

[Anonymous]

As a supervisor I detest daily reports. I don’t want them and don’t want people spending time on them. Poor performers usually lie.

What I want is for that when I have performance issues, HR can pull IT logs. I have very defined and quantitative performance measures, but I often get the runaround with poor performers. (Delayed by xyz, I was working on something else, on and on). The insane excuses I get delay PIPs when I would put them on quicker if I had some way to track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very specific to your job, OP. It sounds like you are a government worker and this is specific to your agency or division within an agency. Send the PSA to your co-workers, not to the entire internet!

I don't think OP is a government worker because he said "Some of your are about to lose your WFH status". Feds workers are not allowed to WFH.

This is not true. It’s an open secret that Fed workers under the Treasury Union still telework. Agencies like the Treasury, SEC, FDIC and NCUA. Their offices are unoccupied 80% of the time. It’s a ghost town. On average they are allowed telework about 4 days a week, same as before the Doge. Why do you think the beltway and grocery stores in the DMV are so crowded between 10 am - 2 pm? Which is not your traditional commuting time. Feds are running errands and goofing off instead of working. Bring back the Doge.

FDIC is in the office 5 days/week. Strictly enforced.

[Anonymous]

As someone who has done Full remote, hybrid and in person people greatly overestimate office costs on person.

A well run tightly controlled in person business is around 20 percent more efficient than remote. And my in person job we were at work 10 hours a day.

And my in person job we stayed to help junior people get their work done, you could not just leave cause your work is done.

We had tons of savings on Medicare, 401k matches, SA contributions, health insurance, wtc. We literally had 50 percent less workers than my current job. And my bonus is 1/4 my old bonus due to us carrying so much dead wood.

And hard to get remote people to work on short notice. For instance major crisis at work in person happened once my old job anround 5 pm. All 20,000 of us worked till 7 pm to fix. Good luck at 500 pm getting 20,000 renote people to work to 7pm. Most logged off already or have mouse jugglers on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who has done Full remote, hybrid and in person people greatly overestimate office costs on person.

A well run tightly controlled in person business is around 20 percent more efficient than remote. And my in person job we were at work 10 hours a day.

And my in person job we stayed to help junior people get their work done, you could not just leave cause your work is done.

We had tons of savings on Medicare, 401k matches, SA contributions, health insurance, wtc. We literally had 50 percent less workers than my current job. And my bonus is 1/4 my old bonus due to us carrying so much dead wood.

And hard to get remote people to work on short notice. For instance major crisis at work in person happened once my old job anround 5 pm. All 20,000 of us worked till 7 pm to fix. Good luck at 500 pm getting 20,000 renote people to work to 7pm. Most logged off already or have mouse jugglers on.