Work site closed, but required to work

[Anonymous]

I work for a gov't contractor. With the Gov't closed because of snow, I can not enter the office. My company, though, has a fiscal year ending soon, and is not allowing us to take today off and make up the time outside of the time period. They say people can work at home. That is simply not true. So, today will probably cost me a days vacation.

[Anonymous]

Why can't you work from home?

[Anonymous]

Work is classified

[Anonymous]

Can you go to your employer's office?

[Anonymous]

Can you bill hours to professional development or client development/marketing or similar? Sounds like a busywork day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work for a gov't contractor. With the Gov't closed because of snow, I can not enter the office. My company, though, has a fiscal year ending soon, and is not allowing us to take today off and make up the time outside of the time period. They say people can work at home. That is simply not true. So, today will probably cost me a days vacation.

Who is "they"?

[Anonymous]

No overhead charging allowed. I can go to a company site, but have nothing to do. Never had this problem in the 18 years of my job.

[Anonymous]

Emails you have to catch up on? Training you need to take? Little mundane tasks, like filling out your time card?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No overhead charging allowed. I can go to a company site, but have nothing to do. Never had this problem in the 18 years of my job.

Well, there's your answer. Either go their or charge vacation.

[Anonymous]

I can go to the site, but I can not work there. I can not do my job, and can not do anything off contract....current rules.

[Anonymous]

Op, I understand your frustration but you need to work this out with your manager. I work for a Fed contractor and our policy is in general folks work from home when the Feds are closed. If they cannot, they work with their manager to discuss other assignments or they take leave.

I empathize that broad policies don't work for everyone but this is where you have to work with your manager to determine the solution to your problem.

[Anonymous]

My husband cannot work from home either. His contractor site never close so even though that company and the feds are sending their workers home, he is required to be there, take leave or make up the hours. His company used to offer 3 snow days but they took that away, along with 20% of his pay, medical benefits and a slew of things. There are perks to being a contractor but days like this suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, I understand your frustration but you need to work this out with your manager. I work for a Fed contractor and our policy is in general folks work from home when the Feds are closed. If they cannot, they work with their manager to discuss other assignments or they take leave.

I empathize that broad policies don't work for everyone but this is where you have to work with your manager to determine the solution to your problem.

You missed the point that the OP is in a cleared position. You cannot do work outside the office. It is either work, leave without pay or vacation hours.

[Anonymous]

This is why I gave up being a contractor and started working for the Feds. They'd be closed MLK day, we were open and I'd have to take leave since my work was dependent on being able to enter the Federal work site. With a billable requirement of 2000 hours, it was annoying to burn good daylight. You have my sympathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, I understand your frustration but you need to work this out with your manager. I work for a Fed contractor and our policy is in general folks work from home when the Feds are closed. If they cannot, they work with their manager to discuss other assignments or they take leave.

I empathize that broad policies don't work for everyone but this is where you have to work with your manager to determine the solution to your problem.

You missed the point that the OP is in a cleared position. You cannot do work outside the office. It is either work, leave without pay or vacation hours.

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