Back up child care/ return to the office--> What was it like before?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:please stop the whining. Go are making all feds look bad. You had two months to figure this out.

You are on the wrong thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who had young kids pre-Covid and are the primary or single parent-If you couldnt telework and there was a snow day (or week) or your kid was out of day far for 4 days with a virus- what did you do? What happened with your work?

I keep seeing posts in the jobs and childcare threads about how people shouldn't complain about RTO and that we should just pay for childcare and have a backup plan- but what are those backup plans? Who wants to come to my house and watch my kid at 8 am when there are 6 inches of snow on the ground? Who can I pay to watch my kid on a hours notice when he is sick? My parents are and hour away, but they can't drive in the snow and I dont want to risk them getting sick since they are in there late 70s.

On sick days and snow days now, I typically work 5-7 am, maybe have a neighbor who is a teacher or a high schooler who is off school watch him for a couple of hours, push all my meetings that need to happen to nap time, and finish up once he is in bed, only taking 2-4 hours of leave and making sure things move along at work.

If there is no telework- I will need to take off all 3/4 days. That means nothing is happening to move that work forward. My team is all parents of young kids, mainly moms who are primary parents. I work as a fed and this is my first office job with set hours and I don't understand how it all worked before. If I have to use my leave for my kid being sick or snow days fine- but then how does my work get done too? What type of back up care should I start trying to get ready?

First if all. If there was 8 inches of snow in this area everything would be closed. Otherwise. You pay through the nose for backup care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who had young kids pre-Covid and are the primary or single parent-If you couldnt telework and there was a snow day (or week) or your kid was out of day far for 4 days with a virus- what did you do? What happened with your work?

I keep seeing posts in the jobs and childcare threads about how people shouldn't complain about RTO and that we should just pay for childcare and have a backup plan- but what are those backup plans? Who wants to come to my house and watch my kid at 8 am when there are 6 inches of snow on the ground? Who can I pay to watch my kid on a hours notice when he is sick? My parents are and hour away, but they can't drive in the snow and I dont want to risk them getting sick since they are in there late 70s.

On sick days and snow days now, I typically work 5-7 am, maybe have a neighbor who is a teacher or a high schooler who is off school watch him for a couple of hours, push all my meetings that need to happen to nap time, and finish up once he is in bed, only taking 2-4 hours of leave and making sure things move along at work.

If there is no telework- I will need to take off all 3/4 days. That means nothing is happening to move that work forward. My team is all parents of young kids, mainly moms who are primary parents. I work as a fed and this is my first office job with set hours and I don't understand how it all worked before. If I have to use my leave for my kid being sick or snow days fine- but then how does my work get done too? What type of back up care should I start trying to get ready?

HS kid who lived up the street and could walk over for a snow day. Sick days or weeks, our options were I miss work, spouse misses work, grandparents come visit (fly in from CA, but they were retired and came for a week twoce, once when one of us had surgery and we had 3 little kids, and once when one of the kids had a surgery). We did all of those things, and I even remember days where spouse and I split the day, because one of us had an important am meeting and the other had an important pm meeting

[Anonymous]

We got snow days off! We had to take all the sick days off with our kids, which meant I never had any leave because I burned it all, but it also meant that when my children were sick, I actually got to take care of them, which was nice.