RTO:Traffic is atrocious

[Anonymous]

I have such empathy for you, but I think your expressing any unhappiness at being arbitrarily forced to commute hours each day because a convicted criminal wants to dismantle the government is very selfish. Some women raised kids in a cave while surviving off herbs and berries.

[Anonymous]

Traffic will get better as more Federal employees are laid off and less Federal money is given to non-profits in the DMV. Also, Federal headquarters will begin moving out of the DMV, further reducing the population. I hope this drives all the lawyers and lobbyists away once they realize that the Fedreral gravy train is cut-off.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yea, we should strive for this not to happen

[Anonymous]

RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

[Anonymous]

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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.

A whole 10 years is not a “narrow window” (and I’m not leaving my 13 year old home sick either.) Even when my younger kid was sick there was time to work during naps and in the AM and evening when the other parent was home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

The economy that your president is destroying?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

The economy that your president is destroying?

Our president.. that no one wants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

Neither you nor anyone else has any idea whether this is true or not. “The economy” is far too big and complex to be reduced to something this simple.

RTO is better for CRE, urban area businesses like restaurants and coffee shops, people who sell gasoline and parking spots. It’s bad for exurban restaurants and coffee shops, home prices, and all kinds of IT that sprung up at warp speed to facilitate remote comms. It also intrinsically results in a massive inefficiency in actual commute time.

And who knows what the long-term benefits may be to the economy may be of a generation of American kids who have the benefit of growing up with one or even both parents at home before and after school every day? It’s a back door solution to “latchkey kids” and the “breakdown of the American family” many prattle on about.

As it happens I don’t give a first or second F about bolstering “the economy” by driving around like a moron. WFH has been great for our family and for our lives, so that’s what we’ll keep doing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

The economy that your president is destroying?

Our president.. that no one wants.

Actually, a majority wants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

I quit my gym and no longer meet a neighbor for coffee before work. My gym guy said they have lost a ton of feds. Things did not sound too great.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

The economy that your president is destroying?

Our president.. that no one wants.

Actually, a majority wants.

Not of the population.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

The economy that your president is destroying?

Our president.. that no one wants.

Actually, a majority wants.

Only 23% of the population voted for him. Even among the people who voted, less than 50% voted for him. So no, not a majority by any definition.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

The economy that your president is destroying?

Our president.. that no one wants.

Actually, a majority wants.

Plurality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

I quit my gym and no longer meet a neighbor for coffee before work. My gym guy said they have lost a ton of feds. Things did not sound too great.

Exactly. It just shifts spending. Well, it could have just shifted spending from one place to another, but all the other great winning moves that are destroying the economy means people can’t or won’t spend anywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO is good for the economy. That's what we all did in normal times. Quit whining, people.

The economy that your president is destroying?

Our president.. that no one wants.

Actually, a majority wants.

Only 23% of the population voted for him. Even among the people who voted, less than 50% voted for him. So no, not a majority by any definition.

They are not good at math.