Saw the Trump comment re: telework and dismissal, any words of sane advice
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Anonymous
Why do we need NASA when we have SpaceX? |
Anonymous
Wow that's great, you will start collaborating and thinking outside the box. |
Anonymous
Retirees with nice pensions will take the money and run a few years later. |
Anonymous
And we can all catch Covid again together too! What a bonus. |
Anonymous
thats a plus as far as pensions are concerned |
Anonymous
| It sucks. We are currently at 3 days per week in office, which is ok enough, but if it went to 5 days, I would really not want to work here any more - which is probably the point of it. |
Anonymous
Ah, the real reason pops up. Let's get rid of any SpaceX competition and snap up those lower earning feds / contractors when they get laid off. |
Anonymous
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So stupid and short sighted. My office is fully remote. It's very much individual work more so than collaborative. There is ZERO need to go into an office to do it. Performance figures for each person are tracked regularly. If you have a problem meeting the performance figures then the telework agreement will be cancelled. There is a small office for those who either prefer to work in person or are required to, but it would not fit everybody in the office full time.
For those maintaining the telework agreement, managers don't tend to care when the work is done as long as it is done. This arrangement actually benefits the office long term because I am able to work around other brief commitments like kids events at school or doctor appointments without taking a half or full day of leave. Sometimes I work as early as 5 am and as late as midnight to ensure it gets done to save my personal leave. I havent taken sick leave in almost a year. Last summer I even felt well enough to work through COVID. Sometimes our office gets a backlog for various reasons and it's also easier to just walk into my home office and put in a couple (paid) extra hours (when authorized by management to manage the backlog) that would have otherwise been spent on a commute. I hope whoever makes these decisions at our agency thinks about this sort of stuff before ordering some blanket RTO order. |
Anonymous
Most of us aren't in the old school generous federal pension plans anyhow. Those people have long retired, so it's not going to save that much in the long run. Assume most republicans would rather kill us than have us alive anyhow, so I guess it's a win win for them either way, whether it saves that much money or not. |
Anonymous
We have been told that we may be assigned to different buildings since they will need more space. MD people might be in Baltimore and VA people in DC. Obviously we will not be getting any benefit from multiple locations. |
Anonymous
What? In his last term he famously wasn't available to work until after noon. Why do you buy this nonsense? |
Anonymous
Do you remember when he tweeted about a New York Times article that talked about this and he kept spelling hamburger wrong. 
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Anonymous
| Well they honestly believe that only 6% of employees work in office. So basically on day 2 of his administration someone will tell him that 50% are in office and he'll declare mission accomplished. |
Anonymous
lol!!!! They did it! |
Anonymous
This is what I would do, at a minimum, get your CV ready. As a former government employee, I agree that employees take less pay for better work life balance, or maybe for more interesting work. But it is also true that there is a great deal of unpredictability, government shut downs have been threatened for the past two decades, Republicans always run on cutting spending, even if they don’t, etc. . . There is just no promise of stability with a government job. |