What is your federal agency telling you re: RTO? (No other rants/comments!)

[Anonymous]

DOD agency, RTO 2/23

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Anonymous wrote:cfpb is sticking with our existing TW arrangements

That’s great for them, but seems unfair to others at different agencies.

I'm at a different agency that's fully complying and I don't think this is unfair at all. It's got nothing to do with me.

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Anonymous wrote:FTC

Honestly I don’t know why I am staying at this point.

What's the deal at FTC? DH got a TJO to leave FTC for a FinReg last week...obviously that's held up now.

[Anonymous]

I feel like RTO isn’t the correct term for this. We RT80 (returned to the 80s).

[Anonymous]

FHFA is planning to comply, but no details sent out other than a brief email that details are forthcoming.

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Anonymous wrote:FTC

Honestly I don’t know why I am staying at this point.

What's the deal at FTC? DH got a TJO to leave FTC for a FinReg last week...obviously that's held up now.

back to back staff hating chairs, could earn 4x as much at my old firm and have more flexibility

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Anonymous wrote:FTC

Honestly I don’t know why I am staying at this point.

What's the deal at FTC? DH got a TJO to leave FTC for a FinReg last week...obviously that's held up now.

back to back staff hating chairs, could earn 4x as much at my old firm and have more flexibility

Khan didn't even live in DC!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:cfpb is sticking with our existing TW arrangements

That’s great for them, but seems unfair to others at different agencies.

Isn't CFPB on Trump's chopping block?

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Anonymous wrote:Patent and Trademark Office (non-bargaining unit employees) have had telework agreements cancelled immediately. Not sure why they bothered with the "exemption" from the overall Commerce policy. They are working on plans to bring remote workers to the office. In most cases, I think, that's not going to happen. People will quit. Which may be the point

Is this true? I haven't seen anyone else say this about USPTO.

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Anonymous wrote:Patent and Trademark Office (non-bargaining unit employees) have had telework agreements cancelled immediately. Not sure why they bothered with the "exemption" from the overall Commerce policy. They are working on plans to bring remote workers to the office. In most cases, I think, that's not going to happen. People will quit. Which may be the point

Is this true? I haven't seen anyone else say this about USPTO.

It's true for "non-bargaining unit employees" but a big chunk of the agency is covered by either POPA (patent examiners) and NTEU (Trademark Examiners, IT, and others). So it's actually not most of the agency.

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Anonymous wrote:Federal Reserve full return to office starting Monday which they haven’t fully announced yet. Great leadership. EO’s don’t even apply to us. People are going to be jumping ship fast.

You serious?

Yes. Didn’t sound like it just my division. Even OPM is giving their staff until March. Just unreal.

What division are you?

BDM

So as of end of day Friday there’s no info and then people fire up their computers Monday and are told “get to your office now”? I’m a big fan of RTO but this scenario sounds crazy.

Yeah it sounds made up.

[Anonymous]

Did supervisors and non-bues not have remote agreements? I guess my question is are supervisors being given relocation reimbursement or are they basically just figuring non-bues won't push back?

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Anonymous wrote:Federal Reserve full return to office starting Monday which they haven’t fully announced yet. Great leadership. EO’s don’t even apply to us. People are going to be jumping ship fast.

You serious?

Yes. Didn’t sound like it just my division. Even OPM is giving their staff until March. Just unreal.

What division are you?

BDM

So as of end of day Friday there’s no info and then people fire up their computers Monday and are told “get to your office now”? I’m a big fan of RTO but this scenario sounds crazy.

Yeah it sounds made up.

Elon is using the same tactics he used at Twitter to get people to quit, like sending insulting emails to all employees that also includes an instruction to click YES if you want to work at Twitter. He's under the impression he can summarily fire anyone who misses the 6pm Friday email but doesn't show up Monday.

[Anonymous]

HUD is back 2/9 for NBU, 2/24 for BU. Apparently our agreements don’t matter and our union just said they were “reviewing” it and will get back to us.

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Anonymous wrote:Department of Commerce return to office. No date set. https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/Information%20Memo%20-%20Return%20to%20In-Person%20Work_0.pdf

Exemptions: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Office of Inspector General, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps

Did you read your link? Telework ends IMMEDIATELY!

“ All current telework agreements must be cancelled immediately. “

Did you read the link? CBA excepted.

My guess is that when Lutnick (spelling?) comes in he will do what he can to compel supervisors to compel everyone under CBA to maximize in person work.