Anyone know a govt employee who simply decided they won't go to the office?

[Anonymous]

Her supervisor could approve an RA if they want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this person. Hope she gets busted. You aren’t the only one p!ssed about this.

I know nothing about FDA but this seems like a whole lot of identifiable information in this thread. But clearly the OP wants their colleague gone so this is a lazy way to make that happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her supervisor could approve an RA if they want to.

For telework sure. But how does that get around the 60 mile requirement.

[Anonymous]

Despite what she says I can’t imagine her supervisor said yep keep working from Iowa for a job that requires you within 60 miles, NBD, I’ll sign off. It’s timesheet fraud having nothing to do with telework or RA or whatever and I can’t imagine any supervisor sticking their own neck out like this. But being in DC and government for a long time, I do think supervisors here can be non confrontational and passive aggressive. Maybe she did say do what you have to do for yourself [while leaving out - if and when I get a fraudulent timesheet, I’m not certifying it and will elevate it to whomever handles this.]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great, we're back to women knifing each other in the back because they're taking "too much" maternity leave (yes, I heard you with the living in the midwest scenario). Good old regressive days.

When will the US understand that parents need at least 6 months of paid maternity leave, and 6 months of paternity leave?

The birthrate is plummeting. Time to treat families right if the nation needs babies.

Separately, sure, ding people for living where they shouldn't be living. Punish them for not following the rules. But when the rules are insane in the first place, I think the people who skirt them aren't entirely wrong.

Did you skim over the part where OP said this woman lives several states away and is committing fraud by using someone else's address?

This has zero to do with women being catty.

[Anonymous]

Honestly the location sticks out to me more here than RTO. By saying she lives in the DMV when she doesn’t, that’s a whole lot of extra pay she’s gotten for the whole time she’s worked here compared to any midwestern state. And because of that higher pay - higher TSP match, higher salary for FERS etc. How is this ok??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She hasn't done anything wrong yet, because she's still on leave, correct? She's talking a big game but I bet she shows up eventually or else quits / gets an RA. The chances she has her supervisor on board as described are almost zero.

It's annoying she's running her mouth, but right now that's all it is. Stay out of her drama.

Wouldn't using a fraudulent local address, therefore getting DC locality pay while living an airline's flight away fall under the "doing something wrong" category?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly the location sticks out to me more here than RTO. By saying she lives in the DMV when she doesn’t, that’s a whole lot of extra pay she’s gotten for the whole time she’s worked here compared to any midwestern state. And because of that higher pay - higher TSP match, higher salary for FERS etc. How is this ok??

THIS ^^^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She hasn't done anything wrong yet, because she's still on leave, correct? She's talking a big game but I bet she shows up eventually or else quits / gets an RA. The chances she has her supervisor on board as described are almost zero.

It's annoying she's running her mouth, but right now that's all it is. Stay out of her drama.

Wouldn't using a fraudulent local address, therefore getting DC locality pay while living an airline's flight away fall under the "doing something wrong" category?

If that's in fact happening, yes. But if so, it's been going on for years and OP hasn't done anything with the info.
I suspect there's some hyperbole, either from the woman or OP.

[Anonymous]

She might be essential.

[Anonymous]

Tell her supervisor. Supervisor will be required to do something. If they aren’t- go to HR on your own about it.

We had several people caught remote working from the wrong area of the country. They’d say they were in a high COLA area, but were actually in a rural area and should be making 30k less. They had to pay it back and were fired.

[Anonymous]

I thought Doge set up ways to report fraud like this?

[Anonymous]

If her supervisor is aware, her supervisor will also be reprimanded for this. Possibly the supervisor would be reprimanded anyways for not knowing. They should be aware of basic employee information.

Our IT does random vpn scans that caught this during covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell her supervisor. Supervisor will be required to do something. If they aren’t- go to HR on your own about it.

We had several people caught remote working from the wrong area of the country. They’d say they were in a high COLA area, but were actually in a rural area and should be making 30k less. They had to pay it back and were fired.

Sounds like the woman told the supervisor herself in the whole - can’t come back to the office because I live in Toledo debacle.

[Anonymous]

How on earth is a supervisor going to risk they own job signing off on this timesheet 2x per month?