MCPS Promoting Teleworking

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Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

MCPS has 1000s of employees outside of teachers who can telework because their jobs do not require in location presence. For example, why would an IT person need to report in?

Are anyone of those 1000s of employees available for answering phones or retrieving messages on voicemail?

They can call in to get voicemail and they can have the calls forward to their home or cell phone.

Or they can install Webex on their MCPS issued laptops and receive calls in real time. There is no need for office phones - all calls can be handled on a laptop. As for security issues, just make sure all employees who are teleworking log into a VPN.

Yes, I would hate to be tied to a classroom all day and lose that freedom. I do agree it sucks, but that is the nature of the job. Other office jobs can be done from home. Those jobs shouldn't be forced to work in an office just because teachers are tied to a classroom.

Don't you see? If teachers have to go in, everybody else needs to go in so they don't feel as bad.

The stupidity of this comment *sigh*....but I'm glad it made you feel better.

It is really stupid that teachers get so upset when other people can work from home. They are like children who throw tantrums when someone else gets a cookie and they don't. And our policymakers give into them.

You're just so uninformed and frankly, stupid...it's honestly sad to see someone so pathetic. Teachers don't give a sh*t who can work from home. No one is throwing tantrums other than you. You have made up this ridiculous version of teachers in your head as if its canon. Do better or get better. Or both.

Don't worry about parents like this. Some of my kid's friends unfortunately have parents like this, so I have to interact with them. They are the parents who truly view school as babysitting and mask it as "educational deprivation" outrage...it's all theatre to make themselves feel better about being horrible parents. They need someone to blame, so teachers make the perfect scapegoats. It IS pathetic. The rest of us know this, but they don't get it. They will just keep going through life ignorantly blissful about their own shortcomings.

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Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

MCPS has 1000s of employees outside of teachers who can telework because their jobs do not require in location presence. For example, why would an IT person need to report in?

Are anyone of those 1000s of employees available for answering phones or retrieving messages on voicemail?

They can call in to get voicemail and they can have the calls forward to their home or cell phone.

Or they can install Webex on their MCPS issued laptops and receive calls in real time. There is no need for office phones - all calls can be handled on a laptop. As for security issues, just make sure all employees who are teleworking log into a VPN.

Yes, I would hate to be tied to a classroom all day and lose that freedom. I do agree it sucks, but that is the nature of the job. Other office jobs can be done from home. Those jobs shouldn't be forced to work in an office just because teachers are tied to a classroom.

Don't you see? If teachers have to go in, everybody else needs to go in so they don't feel as bad.

The stupidity of this comment *sigh*....but I'm glad it made you feel better.

It is really stupid that teachers get so upset when other people can work from home. They are like children who throw tantrums when someone else gets a cookie and they don't. And our policymakers give into them.

Sigh. And this is why teachers are quitting in droves. Parents such as you.

Not PP - but who says that the comment was made about a parent? Sounds like someone in Central Office to me since they are the ones who are working virtually right now.

I’m in agreement with the PP - Why staff who are working remotely are not stepping up and helping to cover the vacancies at the school level?

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Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

MCPS has 1000s of employees outside of teachers who can telework because their jobs do not require in location presence. For example, why would an IT person need to report in?

Are anyone of those 1000s of employees available for answering phones or retrieving messages on voicemail?

They can call in to get voicemail and they can have the calls forward to their home or cell phone.

Or they can install Webex on their MCPS issued laptops and receive calls in real time. There is no need for office phones - all calls can be handled on a laptop. As for security issues, just make sure all employees who are teleworking log into a VPN.

Yes, I would hate to be tied to a classroom all day and lose that freedom. I do agree it sucks, but that is the nature of the job. Other office jobs can be done from home. Those jobs shouldn't be forced to work in an office just because teachers are tied to a classroom.

Don't you see? If teachers have to go in, everybody else needs to go in so they don't feel as bad.

The stupidity of this comment *sigh*....but I'm glad it made you feel better.

It is really stupid that teachers get so upset when other people can work from home. They are like children who throw tantrums when someone else gets a cookie and they don't. And our policymakers give into them.

Sigh. And this is why teachers are quitting in droves. Parents such as you.

Not PP - but who says that the comment was made about a parent? Sounds like someone in Central Office to me since they are the ones who are working virtually right now.

I’m in agreement with the PP - Why staff who are working remotely are not stepping up and helping to cover the vacancies at the school level?

It’s obviously a parent. Moving forward, what.. you want the head of IT to be a sub for a day? Delusional…

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Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

MCPS has 1000s of employees outside of teachers who can telework because their jobs do not require in location presence. For example, why would an IT person need to report in?

Are anyone of those 1000s of employees available for answering phones or retrieving messages on voicemail?

They can call in to get voicemail and they can have the calls forward to their home or cell phone.

Or they can install Webex on their MCPS issued laptops and receive calls in real time. There is no need for office phones - all calls can be handled on a laptop. As for security issues, just make sure all employees who are teleworking log into a VPN.

Yes, I would hate to be tied to a classroom all day and lose that freedom. I do agree it sucks, but that is the nature of the job. Other office jobs can be done from home. Those jobs shouldn't be forced to work in an office just because teachers are tied to a classroom.

Don't you see? If teachers have to go in, everybody else needs to go in so they don't feel as bad.

The stupidity of this comment *sigh*....but I'm glad it made you feel better.

It is really stupid that teachers get so upset when other people can work from home. They are like children who throw tantrums when someone else gets a cookie and they don't. And our policymakers give into them.

Sigh. And this is why teachers are quitting in droves. Parents such as you.

Not PP - but who says that the comment was made about a parent? Sounds like someone in Central Office to me since they are the ones who are working virtually right now.

I’m in agreement with the PP - Why staff who are working remotely are not stepping up and helping to cover the vacancies at the school level?

It’s obviously a parent. Moving forward, what.. you want the head of IT to be a sub for a day? Delusional…

They could sub for computer science classes.

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Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

MCPS has 1000s of employees outside of teachers who can telework because their jobs do not require in location presence. For example, why would an IT person need to report in?

Are anyone of those 1000s of employees available for answering phones or retrieving messages on voicemail?

They can call in to get voicemail and they can have the calls forward to their home or cell phone.

Or they can install Webex on their MCPS issued laptops and receive calls in real time. There is no need for office phones - all calls can be handled on a laptop. As for security issues, just make sure all employees who are teleworking log into a VPN.

Yes, I would hate to be tied to a classroom all day and lose that freedom. I do agree it sucks, but that is the nature of the job. Other office jobs can be done from home. Those jobs shouldn't be forced to work in an office just because teachers are tied to a classroom.

Don't you see? If teachers have to go in, everybody else needs to go in so they don't feel as bad.

The stupidity of this comment *sigh*....but I'm glad it made you feel better.

It is really stupid that teachers get so upset when other people can work from home. They are like children who throw tantrums when someone else gets a cookie and they don't. And our policymakers give into them.

Sigh. And this is why teachers are quitting in droves. Parents such as you.

Not PP - but who says that the comment was made about a parent? Sounds like someone in Central Office to me since they are the ones who are working virtually right now.

I’m in agreement with the PP - Why staff who are working remotely are not stepping up and helping to cover the vacancies at the school level?

Why aren’t parents stepping up?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

MCPS has 1000s of employees outside of teachers who can telework because their jobs do not require in location presence. For example, why would an IT person need to report in?

Are anyone of those 1000s of employees available for answering phones or retrieving messages on voicemail?

They can call in to get voicemail and they can have the calls forward to their home or cell phone.

Or they can install Webex on their MCPS issued laptops and receive calls in real time. There is no need for office phones - all calls can be handled on a laptop. As for security issues, just make sure all employees who are teleworking log into a VPN.

Yes, I would hate to be tied to a classroom all day and lose that freedom. I do agree it sucks, but that is the nature of the job. Other office jobs can be done from home. Those jobs shouldn't be forced to work in an office just because teachers are tied to a classroom.

Don't you see? If teachers have to go in, everybody else needs to go in so they don't feel as bad.

The stupidity of this comment *sigh*....but I'm glad it made you feel better.

It is really stupid that teachers get so upset when other people can work from home. They are like children who throw tantrums when someone else gets a cookie and they don't. And our policymakers give into them.

Sigh. And this is why teachers are quitting in droves. Parents such as you.

Not PP - but who says that the comment was made about a parent? Sounds like someone in Central Office to me since they are the ones who are working virtually right now.

I’m in agreement with the PP - Why staff who are working remotely are not stepping up and helping to cover the vacancies at the school level?

It’s obviously a parent. Moving forward, what.. you want the head of IT to be a sub for a day? Delusional…

They could sub for computer science classes.

Then who would run IT? If folks from central office are filling school level vacancies, who do you think is doing the work of central office? I know folks feel like central office does nothing or is not important, but then in the next breathe are crying about recruitment being slow, or substitutes not being processed quickly enough, or Covid information/decisions coming out slow, etc.

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Central office is a joke . You could lose half the staff and still get the job done if they worked 100% like inschool staff do

[Anonymous]

It then who would be available to cover up a major crime and make 250,000 a year like the former Damascus Principal?

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*But then

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of downsides for allowing teleworking:

1) lack of supervision - when the cat is away the mice will play

2) lack of collaboration - lots of individual mindsets vs. working as a cohesive team

3) lack of support - difficult to get a question answered or guidance when offsite

4) greater likelihood of data security breaches - employees can use an unsecured network or loose a laptop with data

5) unequal standards - some employees have to work in person, so do not

Weird. People on here shriek endlessly about how they are sooooooo much more productive at home and how meeeean their white collar supervisors are to expect them to return to office even part time.

Rules for thee and not for me, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

More phony outrage over another non-issue...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

MCPS has 1000s of employees outside of teachers who can telework because their jobs do not require in location presence. For example, why would an IT person need to report in?

Are anyone of those 1000s of employees available for answering phones or retrieving messages on voicemail?

They can call in to get voicemail and they can have the calls forward to their home or cell phone.

Or they can install Webex on their MCPS issued laptops and receive calls in real time. There is no need for office phones - all calls can be handled on a laptop. As for security issues, just make sure all employees who are teleworking log into a VPN.

Yes, I would hate to be tied to a classroom all day and lose that freedom. I do agree it sucks, but that is the nature of the job. Other office jobs can be done from home. Those jobs shouldn't be forced to work in an office just because teachers are tied to a classroom.

Don't you see? If teachers have to go in, everybody else needs to go in so they don't feel as bad.

The stupidity of this comment *sigh*....but I'm glad it made you feel better.

It is really stupid that teachers get so upset when other people can work from home. They are like children who throw tantrums when someone else gets a cookie and they don't. And our policymakers give into them.

You're just so uninformed and frankly, stupid...it's honestly sad to see someone so pathetic. Teachers don't give a sh*t who can work from home. No one is throwing tantrums other than you. You have made up this ridiculous version of teachers in your head as if its canon. Do better or get better. Or both.

Damn, you sound really angry

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

MCPS has 1000s of employees outside of teachers who can telework because their jobs do not require in location presence. For example, why would an IT person need to report in?

Are anyone of those 1000s of employees available for answering phones or retrieving messages on voicemail?

They can call in to get voicemail and they can have the calls forward to their home or cell phone.

Or they can install Webex on their MCPS issued laptops and receive calls in real time. There is no need for office phones - all calls can be handled on a laptop. As for security issues, just make sure all employees who are teleworking log into a VPN.

Yes, I would hate to be tied to a classroom all day and lose that freedom. I do agree it sucks, but that is the nature of the job. Other office jobs can be done from home. Those jobs shouldn't be forced to work in an office just because teachers are tied to a classroom.

Don't you see? If teachers have to go in, everybody else needs to go in so they don't feel as bad.

The stupidity of this comment *sigh*....but I'm glad it made you feel better.

It is really stupid that teachers get so upset when other people can work from home. They are like children who throw tantrums when someone else gets a cookie and they don't. And our policymakers give into them.

You're just so uninformed and frankly, stupid...it's honestly sad to see someone so pathetic. Teachers don't give a sh*t who can work from home. No one is throwing tantrums other than you. You have made up this ridiculous version of teachers in your head as if its canon. Do better or get better. Or both.

Damn, you sound really angry

DP but they didn’t sound angry at all. Most people are sick of listening to morons like you. No ones angry about it, just tired of it. You should be tired of being proven wrong over and over, but stupidity runs deep.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of downsides for allowing teleworking:

1) lack of supervision - when the cat is away the mice will play

2) lack of collaboration - lots of individual mindsets vs. working as a cohesive team

3) lack of support - difficult to get a question answered or guidance when offsite

4) greater likelihood of data security breaches - employees can use an unsecured network or loose a laptop with data

5) unequal standards - some employees have to work in person, so do not

Weird. People on here shriek endlessly about how they are sooooooo much more productive at home and how meeeean their white collar supervisors are to expect them to return to office even part time.

Rules for thee and not for me, huh?

You just sound really bitter that you can’t work from home. Or you can’t be trusted to work from home (which from your posts is probably the case.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just stumbled on this video promoting teleworking in MCPS.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ymSe_oG28

MCPS has 1000s of employees outside of teachers who can telework because their jobs do not require in location presence. For example, why would an IT person need to report in?

Are anyone of those 1000s of employees available for answering phones or retrieving messages on voicemail?

They can call in to get voicemail and they can have the calls forward to their home or cell phone.

Or they can install Webex on their MCPS issued laptops and receive calls in real time. There is no need for office phones - all calls can be handled on a laptop. As for security issues, just make sure all employees who are teleworking log into a VPN.

Yes, I would hate to be tied to a classroom all day and lose that freedom. I do agree it sucks, but that is the nature of the job. Other office jobs can be done from home. Those jobs shouldn't be forced to work in an office just because teachers are tied to a classroom.

Don't you see? If teachers have to go in, everybody else needs to go in so they don't feel as bad.

The stupidity of this comment *sigh*....but I'm glad it made you feel better.

It is really stupid that teachers get so upset when other people can work from home. They are like children who throw tantrums when someone else gets a cookie and they don't. And our policymakers give into them.

Sigh. And this is why teachers are quitting in droves. Parents such as you.

Not PP - but who says that the comment was made about a parent? Sounds like someone in Central Office to me since they are the ones who are working virtually right now.

I’m in agreement with the PP - Why staff who are working remotely are not stepping up and helping to cover the vacancies at the school level?

It’s obviously a parent. Moving forward, what.. you want the head of IT to be a sub for a day? Delusional…

They could sub for computer science classes.

The head of IT is busy being the head of IT. What’s so hard to understand here? Just because people work in a school district, doesn’t automatically make them substitute teachers. Parents sitting on their ass at home? They absolutely should be signing up.