RTO:Traffic is atrocious

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Anonymous wrote:Many people don't want to pay for childcare like everyone else did before covid, they want to pocket the extra money and also live far out to pocket even more money!

We have childcare*, but two parents commuting every day means we will have to find a daycare with even longer hours. And pretty much impossible to have dinner together as a family.

* People like to throw around accusations of parents not having childcare, but I literally don't know anyone who was working from home while taking care of a young child.

Plenty also only need intermittent childcare and don't know what to do.

We're dual feds. DH is often called to crises out of town. Normally I work 6-3:30 and get the kids from school, dh takes them to school. What can I do when he's out of town? Just take 2.5-3 hours of annual leave a day? There isn't an option for before school care that you pay per day and I don't need it daily. It's also currently full.

Schools just aren't set up for working parents and previously our works took the full brunt of that. Now both school and work are unfriendly to everyone. I like working in the office, but the complete lack of any flexibility is killing me.

Yes but this isn’t a new problem. Intermittent childcare has always been a need and has never been available.

Right. And the new inflexible policy (intended to punish and traumatize feds) now means that instead of the worker being able to continue working from home with a sick kid, they have to take sick leave and do no work.

How is that a good thing for government efficiency?

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Anonymous wrote:When I had a rush hour commute back when there was no telecommuting and zero WFH most people my office arrived before peak rush hour and left after peak rush hour.

I was in my office around 745 am to 630pm daily. I could not come in late or leave early.

It was way more productive in person, if I tine travel to 1999 our whole 1,000 person office was working 10-11 hours a day.

Was it hard and horrible? Yes. Was it crazy productive for employer, Yes

People needing to work 11 hours a day is indicative of how low productivity was.

Not really. My 40 person department after WFH, Remote, Dress Down, Flex time was rolled out between 1999 and 2021 went from 40 people to 120 people yet company stayed the same size.

We worked till work was done. Not when your work was done. if we had a quick person they would jump to other jobs. We also had "floaters" meaning you finish your work earlier or have a light day we had cross training we put you in other job or area for day. We also had no internet or cell phones at work and boss could see my screen and keystokes. Having no work was very stressful.

Also mentoring and training was great. Since work had to be done for any of us to go home, we training and mentored new staff right away.

Talk about Stockholm syndrome for your sweatshop.

Right. Plus it's really demoralizing to top employees to just get EXTRA work as a reward for being quick or working harder.

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Anonymous wrote:Many people don't want to pay for childcare like everyone else did before covid, they want to pocket the extra money and also live far out to pocket even more money!

We have childcare*, but two parents commuting every day means we will have to find a daycare with even longer hours. And pretty much impossible to have dinner together as a family.

* People like to throw around accusations of parents not having childcare, but I literally don't know anyone who was working from home while taking care of a young child.

Plenty also only need intermittent childcare and don't know what to do.

We're dual feds. DH is often called to crises out of town. Normally I work 6-3:30 and get the kids from school, dh takes them to school. What can I do when he's out of town? Just take 2.5-3 hours of annual leave a day? There isn't an option for before school care that you pay per day and I don't need it daily. It's also currently full.

Schools just aren't set up for working parents and previously our works took the full brunt of that. Now both school and work are unfriendly to everyone. I like working in the office, but the complete lack of any flexibility is killing me.

Yes but this isn’t a new problem. Intermittent childcare has always been a need and has never been available.

Right. And the new inflexible policy (intended to punish and traumatize feds) now means that instead of the worker being able to continue working from home with a sick kid, they have to take sick leave and do no work.

How is that a good thing for government efficiency?

Back in the late 90s my parents left my siblings and I home alone when we were sick starting when we were 10. There is a pretty narrow window when you have to stay home with a sick child who is self sufficient and doesn’t need you.

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Traffic was much lighter at 4 p.m. today than it was any time last week. It probably was the cherry blossom traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:Traffic was much lighter at 4 p.m. today than it was any time last week. It probably was the cherry blossom traffic.

MCPS was off school today.

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Anonymous wrote:Traffic was much lighter at 4 p.m. today than it was any time last week. It probably was the cherry blossom traffic.

I believe several school districts were closed today. A lot of people probably took leave.

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Anonymous wrote:Many people don't want to pay for childcare like everyone else did before covid, they want to pocket the extra money and also live far out to pocket even more money!

We have childcare*, but two parents commuting every day means we will have to find a daycare with even longer hours. And pretty much impossible to have dinner together as a family.

* People like to throw around accusations of parents not having childcare, but I literally don't know anyone who was working from home while taking care of a young child.

My husband and I are non feds and we have dinner together as a family three times a week. Four times a week I give our kids dinner and my husband and I eat after the kids go to bed. We’ve done this since March 2022 when five days in person became the norm. I empathize with you on this but know that this is the norm for lots of families.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a good run of it for 5 years. Time to get more productivity.

You think people who spend up to 4hrs per day commuting are more productive? Weird. I only have an hour each way and that's still draining to do every day. The point is to burn people out and make them quit, not be more productive.

Why didn't these people buy closer in?

Right Marie?! Isn’t there any brioche?

Haha my DH’s boss literally asked him why he didn’t just buy a townhouse in Georgetown. Like four years out of school

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*rowhouse

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Anonymous wrote:I take metro but DH has to drive, and he's never had a telework option so he's been going in all along. Morning is still ok because he leaves super early; the afternoon commute was always variable and occasionally rough but now it's just bad every day. I drop off the kids in the AM and he picks them up. I think we may have to cut remaining weekday evening activities for the kids because he just can't consistently get home in time to take them.

Just adding a salaried employee to your household is not an option that is available to everybody btw

You could hire a nanny?

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Anonymous wrote:Many people don't want to pay for childcare like everyone else did before covid, they want to pocket the extra money and also live far out to pocket even more money!

We have childcare*, but two parents commuting every day means we will have to find a daycare with even longer hours. And pretty much impossible to have dinner together as a family.

* People like to throw around accusations of parents not having childcare, but I literally don't know anyone who was working from home while taking care of a young child.

Plenty also only need intermittent childcare and don't know what to do.

We're dual feds. DH is often called to crises out of town. Normally I work 6-3:30 and get the kids from school, dh takes them to school. What can I do when he's out of town? Just take 2.5-3 hours of annual leave a day? There isn't an option for before school care that you pay per day and I don't need it daily. It's also currently full.

Schools just aren't set up for working parents and previously our works took the full brunt of that. Now both school and work are unfriendly to everyone. I like working in the office, but the complete lack of any flexibility is killing me.

Yes but this isn’t a new problem. Intermittent childcare has always been a need and has never been available.

Can’t blame childcare providers for seeking stability

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Anonymous wrote:Many people don't want to pay for childcare like everyone else did before covid, they want to pocket the extra money and also live far out to pocket even more money!

We have childcare*, but two parents commuting every day means we will have to find a daycare with even longer hours. And pretty much impossible to have dinner together as a family.

* People like to throw around accusations of parents not having childcare, but I literally don't know anyone who was working from home while taking care of a young child.

Plenty also only need intermittent childcare and don't know what to do.

We're dual feds. DH is often called to crises out of town. Normally I work 6-3:30 and get the kids from school, dh takes them to school. What can I do when he's out of town? Just take 2.5-3 hours of annual leave a day? There isn't an option for before school care that you pay per day and I don't need it daily. It's also currently full.

Schools just aren't set up for working parents and previously our works took the full brunt of that. Now both school and work are unfriendly to everyone. I like working in the office, but the complete lack of any flexibility is killing me.

Yes but this isn’t a new problem. Intermittent childcare has always been a need and has never been available.

Can’t blame childcare providers for seeking stability

Gee, if only we as a society had some
sort of collective body that could step in to address problems when the market fails to address them.

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Anonymous wrote:Many people don't want to pay for childcare like everyone else did before covid, they want to pocket the extra money and also live far out to pocket even more money!

We have childcare*, but two parents commuting every day means we will have to find a daycare with even longer hours. And pretty much impossible to have dinner together as a family.

* People like to throw around accusations of parents not having childcare, but I literally don't know anyone who was working from home while taking care of a young child.

My husband and I are non feds and we have dinner together as a family three times a week. Four times a week I give our kids dinner and my husband and I eat after the kids go to bed. We’ve done this since March 2022 when five days in person became the norm. I empathize with you on this but know that this is the norm for lots of families.

And do you think that it’s preferable? If your work gave you the opportunity to adjust to make dinner together would you take it? And then if they took it away after several years and told you it was only to traumatize you, would you not complain?

People like you are petty and mean. You suck.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a good run of it for 5 years. Time to get more productivity.

You think people who spend up to 4hrs per day commuting are more productive? Weird. I only have an hour each way and that's still draining to do every day. The point is to burn people out and make them quit, not be more productive.

Why didn't these people buy closer in?

My commute is 30 min but I won’t give this administration more than 8hrs of work. I used to work 8-10hrs at home.

good for you, don't expect a promotion or raise

Omg you are a clown

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Anonymous wrote:We had a good run of it for 5 years. Time to get more productivity.

You think people who spend up to 4hrs per day commuting are more productive? Weird. I only have an hour each way and that's still draining to do every day. The point is to burn people out and make them quit, not be more productive.

Why didn't these people buy closer in?

Right Marie?! Isn’t there any brioche?

Haha my DH’s boss literally asked him why he didn’t just buy a townhouse in Georgetown. Like four years out of school

Why Georgetown? You could have bought one in noma?