New OPM memo on RTO

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Anonymous wrote:It’s called before care and after school, provided at the school. Starting at 7 am in the morning and ending at 5 pm in the evening.

And every single one has a waitlist that is years long. Try again.

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Anonymous wrote:"If an employee’s official duty station is more than 50 miles from any existing agency office, the agency should take steps to move the employee’s duty station to the most appropriate agency office based on the employee’s duties and job function."

What does this part mean? Can someone please translate?

I think it's meant to ferret out people who are getting paid DC rates but moved to like, Western PA during Covid and have been working remotely ever since. No more locality bump if you're not in the locality.

Of all the proposed legislation targeting feds, this aspect seems the least unjust.

No this is not correct you trump moron

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't have school aged kids before telework so what did people do? Did people put their kids in before/aftercare/camps/school for 10 hours a day? How did people find time for extracurriculars if elementary kids are in aftercare until 5:30-6?

My kids were not yet school aged when COVID started so they were still in daycare/preschool. But even before COVID DH and I both teleworked multiple days per week so that at least one of us was home. Usually the commuting spouse would do morning drop off since they had to head out anyway and then the teleworking parent would do pickup so the kids didn’t have to be there past 5.

I think a lot of parents of school aged kids teleworked at least hybrid before COVID. It’s not like March 2020 marked the invention of WAH. For those who need longer hours, they use aftercare, but staffing has gotten harder in the childcare sector so spots are limited with long waitlists. Or maybe if you’re lucky you can find a martial arts type place that has a van to do school pickup and take them to do activities.

I also think a lot of the parents were just not in the workforce or were underemployed. I guess this administration thinks that is preferable to go back to.

My kids a now in extracurriculars starting as early as 4:30/5. To keep them in we’d have to take leave some days, use carpools, stagger hours, not really sure yet … thankfully my DH’s private sector job has been remote since 2018 and his colleagues are scattered across the country with no office to go to, so I guess he would have to take on more of the kid shuffling at home if I go back 5 days (holding out hope my agency’s CBA holds). I would try to jump ship out of government quickly though if forced to commute 5 days/week.

The schedule and juggling you describe is very normal. My husband is 5x/week and I am remote and do more juggling, but I can’t do it all while working during the day, so we have a nanny who helps after school with driving while I am working. Millions of people do this and it is not fun, but it is the norm.

Let me guess, either you don’t live in the DC area, or your husband is a high earner in the private sector. My husband and I are both feds and would not be able to afford a nanny to drive our two elementary aged kids to activities.

As others have mentioned camps alone offer garbage hours and after care to add on another $200 to a camp week that already costs $500 is cost prohibitive.

Our kids were 2 and 5 when Covid hit and we sucked it up and maintained our work performance and duties even though it felt impossible. We had no help. This feels like a real “f you” after we have been dedicated career civil servants over many years for different administrations.

We don’t have a problem with returning to the office, but, the extremism is the issue. Why strip people of flexibilities they had prior to Covid? Why suggest total eradication of telework? If we can even keep 1-2 days per week that will help most people feel like they can stay a little sane and manage all of their work/life balances and priorities.

Its tone deaf to act like this is a brand new and insurmountable problem. Many people are working in person for the last few years, many of them have kids, and many of them are not high earners.

Before and after care exists for a reason. If you cant flex your schedule you use it. And stop signing up for activities that start before 6pm.

No one cares, you worthless troll. This is not a campaign website. People are under no obligation to smile politely while the orange insurrectionist marches in and spits all over them.

Ridiculous overreaction to a good point. DP

Your children don’t need to do extracurriculars at 5 pm! Why are you getting mad at someone who pays a babysitter to watch and drive children around for a few hours after school because they have to work during that time when for years you have not been working during that time? Maybe check your privilege and consider other families make sacrifices financially to pay for childcare from 3:30-5:30 while you just stopped working at 3:30. Check your own privilege. It’s actually really rare to not have to pay for any after school care for elementary aged kids when both parents work.

I’m sorry you think it was a “privilege” for me to graduate college with honors and a super high LSAT score, receive scholarships to a number of highly ranked law schools, serve as editor of a law journal, clerk for a year and then use my qualifications to land a flexible government job in lieu of making private sector pay.

Do you really think that anyone who has something you don’t (whether the ability to work flexible hours, or make huge bonuses, or have a client expense account, or whatever it is) is more privileged than you? Or could it be that they worked hard and made strategic decisions?

You are welcome to have followed the same career path. Oh and I come from a very working class family, no lawyers in my family. I had to bust my butt through school for all of this.

I have never read such a narcissistic post about…childcare? Is this about childcare? I think the only biographical information you left out was your blood type.

I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out after school childcare just like the millions of people who figure it out despite the fact that they weren’t the head of the environmental law review at Fordham.

PP’s point is that there are many over-qualified feds who took the job because of the flexibility and benefits - and we wouldn’t be in the public sector without it. So making the job worse means the quality of the workforce will decrease. this is pretty basic economics.

The flexibility was never not having to worry about childcare for children below the age of about 9 - until COVID.

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It's insane so many Feds are short on childcare. You were never meant to work with your kids under your care while you work.

This line is getting really tired. I don't need childcare if I don't have a commute. I do now that I will be spending several extra hours a day in traffic.

Not tired. TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

The commute argument doesn't make sense because it feeds into the other part---you live too far from work and are taking advantage of the system that way.

I live 10 miles away from work. My commute usually takes 45 - 60 minutes each way, Try again.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s called before care and after school, provided at the school. Starting at 7 am in the morning and ending at 5 pm in the evening.

And every single one has a waitlist that is years long. Try again.

Actually, no. They've been underutilized since the pandemic and WFH.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't have school aged kids before telework so what did people do? Did people put their kids in before/aftercare/camps/school for 10 hours a day? How did people find time for extracurriculars if elementary kids are in aftercare until 5:30-6?

My kids were not yet school aged when COVID started so they were still in daycare/preschool. But even before COVID DH and I both teleworked multiple days per week so that at least one of us was home. Usually the commuting spouse would do morning drop off since they had to head out anyway and then the teleworking parent would do pickup so the kids didn’t have to be there past 5.

I think a lot of parents of school aged kids teleworked at least hybrid before COVID. It’s not like March 2020 marked the invention of WAH. For those who need longer hours, they use aftercare, but staffing has gotten harder in the childcare sector so spots are limited with long waitlists. Or maybe if you’re lucky you can find a martial arts type place that has a van to do school pickup and take them to do activities.

I also think a lot of the parents were just not in the workforce or were underemployed. I guess this administration thinks that is preferable to go back to.

My kids a now in extracurriculars starting as early as 4:30/5. To keep them in we’d have to take leave some days, use carpools, stagger hours, not really sure yet … thankfully my DH’s private sector job has been remote since 2018 and his colleagues are scattered across the country with no office to go to, so I guess he would have to take on more of the kid shuffling at home if I go back 5 days (holding out hope my agency’s CBA holds). I would try to jump ship out of government quickly though if forced to commute 5 days/week.

The schedule and juggling you describe is very normal. My husband is 5x/week and I am remote and do more juggling, but I can’t do it all while working during the day, so we have a nanny who helps after school with driving while I am working. Millions of people do this and it is not fun, but it is the norm.

Let me guess, either you don’t live in the DC area, or your husband is a high earner in the private sector. My husband and I are both feds and would not be able to afford a nanny to drive our two elementary aged kids to activities.

As others have mentioned camps alone offer garbage hours and after care to add on another $200 to a camp week that already costs $500 is cost prohibitive.

Our kids were 2 and 5 when Covid hit and we sucked it up and maintained our work performance and duties even though it felt impossible. We had no help. This feels like a real “f you” after we have been dedicated career civil servants over many years for different administrations.

We don’t have a problem with returning to the office, but, the extremism is the issue. Why strip people of flexibilities they had prior to Covid? Why suggest total eradication of telework? If we can even keep 1-2 days per week that will help most people feel like they can stay a little sane and manage all of their work/life balances and priorities.

Its tone deaf to act like this is a brand new and insurmountable problem. Many people are working in person for the last few years, many of them have kids, and many of them are not high earners.

Before and after care exists for a reason. If you cant flex your schedule you use it. And stop signing up for activities that start before 6pm.

No one cares, you worthless troll. This is not a campaign website. People are under no obligation to smile politely while the orange insurrectionist marches in and spits all over them.

Ridiculous overreaction to a good point. DP

Your children don’t need to do extracurriculars at 5 pm! Why are you getting mad at someone who pays a babysitter to watch and drive children around for a few hours after school because they have to work during that time when for years you have not been working during that time? Maybe check your privilege and consider other families make sacrifices financially to pay for childcare from 3:30-5:30 while you just stopped working at 3:30. Check your own privilege. It’s actually really rare to not have to pay for any after school care for elementary aged kids when both parents work.

I’m sorry you think it was a “privilege” for me to graduate college with honors and a super high LSAT score, receive scholarships to a number of highly ranked law schools, serve as editor of a law journal, clerk for a year and then use my qualifications to land a flexible government job in lieu of making private sector pay.

Do you really think that anyone who has something you don’t (whether the ability to work flexible hours, or make huge bonuses, or have a client expense account, or whatever it is) is more privileged than you? Or could it be that they worked hard and made strategic decisions?

You are welcome to have followed the same career path. Oh and I come from a very working class family, no lawyers in my family. I had to bust my butt through school for all of this.

I have never read such a narcissistic post about…childcare? Is this about childcare? I think the only biographical information you left out was your blood type.

I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out after school childcare just like the millions of people who figure it out despite the fact that they weren’t the head of the environmental law review at Fordham.

PP’s point is that there are many over-qualified feds who took the job because of the flexibility and benefits - and we wouldn’t be in the public sector without it. So making the job worse means the quality of the workforce will decrease. this is pretty basic economics.

The flexibility was never not having to worry about childcare for children below the age of about 9 - until COVID.

+100

It's insane so many Feds are short on childcare. You were never meant to work with your kids under your care while you work.

This line is getting really tired. I don't need childcare if I don't have a commute. I do now that I will be spending several extra hours a day in traffic.

Not tired. TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where do your kids go to school that they are out of your house for 8.5 hours?

I assume you meant to reply to the previous poster. I've posted here several times I purposely took a part time job that could be completed entirely within the times my early elementary kids are at school. Adding a commute now puts me out of the house roughly 30 min before and after the bus comes now. It wouldn't be terrible except my youngest is in kindergarten and the district requires someone to be present at the bus stop. I actually already pay for before care as I saw this all coming but flexing hours earlier doesn't help as the bus schedule from the metro to the park and ride doesn't run at the time I would need in the afternoon. I am the default parent, my spouse travels and cannot be relied on to cover a shift as many have suggested.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s called before care and after school, provided at the school. Starting at 7 am in the morning and ending at 5 pm in the evening.

And every single one has a waitlist that is years long. Try again.

Actually, no. They've been underutilized since the pandemic and WFH.

OMG! Thank you for letting me know! I'll make sure to tell Fairfax County that the next time they tell me I'm #50 on the list for aftercare.

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Anonymous wrote:SSA did just send an email about it.

Saying what?

That they intend to comply with the RTO

Okay. Well RTO says subject to applicable laws, etc. The CBA falls under applicable laws.

Also, we have up all our DC based leased space.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't have school aged kids before telework so what did people do? Did people put their kids in before/aftercare/camps/school for 10 hours a day? How did people find time for extracurriculars if elementary kids are in aftercare until 5:30-6?

My kids were not yet school aged when COVID started so they were still in daycare/preschool. But even before COVID DH and I both teleworked multiple days per week so that at least one of us was home. Usually the commuting spouse would do morning drop off since they had to head out anyway and then the teleworking parent would do pickup so the kids didn’t have to be there past 5.

I think a lot of parents of school aged kids teleworked at least hybrid before COVID. It’s not like March 2020 marked the invention of WAH. For those who need longer hours, they use aftercare, but staffing has gotten harder in the childcare sector so spots are limited with long waitlists. Or maybe if you’re lucky you can find a martial arts type place that has a van to do school pickup and take them to do activities.

I also think a lot of the parents were just not in the workforce or were underemployed. I guess this administration thinks that is preferable to go back to.

My kids a now in extracurriculars starting as early as 4:30/5. To keep them in we’d have to take leave some days, use carpools, stagger hours, not really sure yet … thankfully my DH’s private sector job has been remote since 2018 and his colleagues are scattered across the country with no office to go to, so I guess he would have to take on more of the kid shuffling at home if I go back 5 days (holding out hope my agency’s CBA holds). I would try to jump ship out of government quickly though if forced to commute 5 days/week.

The schedule and juggling you describe is very normal. My husband is 5x/week and I am remote and do more juggling, but I can’t do it all while working during the day, so we have a nanny who helps after school with driving while I am working. Millions of people do this and it is not fun, but it is the norm.

Let me guess, either you don’t live in the DC area, or your husband is a high earner in the private sector. My husband and I are both feds and would not be able to afford a nanny to drive our two elementary aged kids to activities.

As others have mentioned camps alone offer garbage hours and after care to add on another $200 to a camp week that already costs $500 is cost prohibitive.

Our kids were 2 and 5 when Covid hit and we sucked it up and maintained our work performance and duties even though it felt impossible. We had no help. This feels like a real “f you” after we have been dedicated career civil servants over many years for different administrations.

We don’t have a problem with returning to the office, but, the extremism is the issue. Why strip people of flexibilities they had prior to Covid? Why suggest total eradication of telework? If we can even keep 1-2 days per week that will help most people feel like they can stay a little sane and manage all of their work/life balances and priorities.

Its tone deaf to act like this is a brand new and insurmountable problem. Many people are working in person for the last few years, many of them have kids, and many of them are not high earners.

Before and after care exists for a reason. If you cant flex your schedule you use it. And stop signing up for activities that start before 6pm.

No one cares, you worthless troll. This is not a campaign website. People are under no obligation to smile politely while the orange insurrectionist marches in and spits all over them.

Ridiculous overreaction to a good point. DP

Your children don’t need to do extracurriculars at 5 pm! Why are you getting mad at someone who pays a babysitter to watch and drive children around for a few hours after school because they have to work during that time when for years you have not been working during that time? Maybe check your privilege and consider other families make sacrifices financially to pay for childcare from 3:30-5:30 while you just stopped working at 3:30. Check your own privilege. It’s actually really rare to not have to pay for any after school care for elementary aged kids when both parents work.

I’m sorry you think it was a “privilege” for me to graduate college with honors and a super high LSAT score, receive scholarships to a number of highly ranked law schools, serve as editor of a law journal, clerk for a year and then use my qualifications to land a flexible government job in lieu of making private sector pay.

Do you really think that anyone who has something you don’t (whether the ability to work flexible hours, or make huge bonuses, or have a client expense account, or whatever it is) is more privileged than you? Or could it be that they worked hard and made strategic decisions?

You are welcome to have followed the same career path. Oh and I come from a very working class family, no lawyers in my family. I had to bust my butt through school for all of this.

I have never read such a narcissistic post about…childcare? Is this about childcare? I think the only biographical information you left out was your blood type.

I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out after school childcare just like the millions of people who figure it out despite the fact that they weren’t the head of the environmental law review at Fordham.

PP’s point is that there are many over-qualified feds who took the job because of the flexibility and benefits - and we wouldn’t be in the public sector without it. So making the job worse means the quality of the workforce will decrease. this is pretty basic economics.

The flexibility was never not having to worry about childcare for children below the age of about 9 - until COVID.

+100

It's insane so many Feds are short on childcare. You were never meant to work with your kids under your care while you work.

This line is getting really tired. I don't need childcare if I don't have a commute. I do now that I will be spending several extra hours a day in traffic.

Not tired. TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where do your kids go to school that they are out of your house for 8.5 hours?

My kid is in aftercare at school. But even if I maxed out aftercare I'd still be unable to do a commute, full workday, and commute.

Why? Because you moved too far out??????? Exactly. Time to move closer.

You are a moron. Are you going to pay for people to live in million dollar Arlington houses? If not, shut the hell up.

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I’m out of the office this week. I have what AFGE said— it came to personal email. Can someone post what SSA said?

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't have school aged kids before telework so what did people do? Did people put their kids in before/aftercare/camps/school for 10 hours a day? How did people find time for extracurriculars if elementary kids are in aftercare until 5:30-6?

My kids were not yet school aged when COVID started so they were still in daycare/preschool. But even before COVID DH and I both teleworked multiple days per week so that at least one of us was home. Usually the commuting spouse would do morning drop off since they had to head out anyway and then the teleworking parent would do pickup so the kids didn’t have to be there past 5.

I think a lot of parents of school aged kids teleworked at least hybrid before COVID. It’s not like March 2020 marked the invention of WAH. For those who need longer hours, they use aftercare, but staffing has gotten harder in the childcare sector so spots are limited with long waitlists. Or maybe if you’re lucky you can find a martial arts type place that has a van to do school pickup and take them to do activities.

I also think a lot of the parents were just not in the workforce or were underemployed. I guess this administration thinks that is preferable to go back to.

My kids a now in extracurriculars starting as early as 4:30/5. To keep them in we’d have to take leave some days, use carpools, stagger hours, not really sure yet … thankfully my DH’s private sector job has been remote since 2018 and his colleagues are scattered across the country with no office to go to, so I guess he would have to take on more of the kid shuffling at home if I go back 5 days (holding out hope my agency’s CBA holds). I would try to jump ship out of government quickly though if forced to commute 5 days/week.

The schedule and juggling you describe is very normal. My husband is 5x/week and I am remote and do more juggling, but I can’t do it all while working during the day, so we have a nanny who helps after school with driving while I am working. Millions of people do this and it is not fun, but it is the norm.

Let me guess, either you don’t live in the DC area, or your husband is a high earner in the private sector. My husband and I are both feds and would not be able to afford a nanny to drive our two elementary aged kids to activities.

As others have mentioned camps alone offer garbage hours and after care to add on another $200 to a camp week that already costs $500 is cost prohibitive.

Our kids were 2 and 5 when Covid hit and we sucked it up and maintained our work performance and duties even though it felt impossible. We had no help. This feels like a real “f you” after we have been dedicated career civil servants over many years for different administrations.

We don’t have a problem with returning to the office, but, the extremism is the issue. Why strip people of flexibilities they had prior to Covid? Why suggest total eradication of telework? If we can even keep 1-2 days per week that will help most people feel like they can stay a little sane and manage all of their work/life balances and priorities.

Its tone deaf to act like this is a brand new and insurmountable problem. Many people are working in person for the last few years, many of them have kids, and many of them are not high earners.

Before and after care exists for a reason. If you cant flex your schedule you use it. And stop signing up for activities that start before 6pm.

No one cares, you worthless troll. This is not a campaign website. People are under no obligation to smile politely while the orange insurrectionist marches in and spits all over them.

Ridiculous overreaction to a good point. DP

Your children don’t need to do extracurriculars at 5 pm! Why are you getting mad at someone who pays a babysitter to watch and drive children around for a few hours after school because they have to work during that time when for years you have not been working during that time? Maybe check your privilege and consider other families make sacrifices financially to pay for childcare from 3:30-5:30 while you just stopped working at 3:30. Check your own privilege. It’s actually really rare to not have to pay for any after school care for elementary aged kids when both parents work.

I’m sorry you think it was a “privilege” for me to graduate college with honors and a super high LSAT score, receive scholarships to a number of highly ranked law schools, serve as editor of a law journal, clerk for a year and then use my qualifications to land a flexible government job in lieu of making private sector pay.

Do you really think that anyone who has something you don’t (whether the ability to work flexible hours, or make huge bonuses, or have a client expense account, or whatever it is) is more privileged than you? Or could it be that they worked hard and made strategic decisions?

You are welcome to have followed the same career path. Oh and I come from a very working class family, no lawyers in my family. I had to bust my butt through school for all of this.

I have never read such a narcissistic post about…childcare? Is this about childcare? I think the only biographical information you left out was your blood type.

I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out after school childcare just like the millions of people who figure it out despite the fact that they weren’t the head of the environmental law review at Fordham.

PP’s point is that there are many over-qualified feds who took the job because of the flexibility and benefits - and we wouldn’t be in the public sector without it. So making the job worse means the quality of the workforce will decrease. this is pretty basic economics.

The flexibility was never not having to worry about childcare for children below the age of about 9 - until COVID.

+100

It's insane so many Feds are short on childcare. You were never meant to work with your kids under your care while you work.

This line is getting really tired. I don't need childcare if I don't have a commute. I do now that I will be spending several extra hours a day in traffic.

Not tired. TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where do your kids go to school that they are out of your house for 8.5 hours?

My kid is in aftercare at school. But even if I maxed out aftercare I'd still be unable to do a commute, full workday, and commute.

Why? Because you moved too far out??????? Exactly. Time to move closer.

You are a moron. Are you going to pay for people to live in million dollar Arlington houses? If not, shut the hell up.

+1 For me to have a 15-20 minute commute, I would have to live 2 miles from my Arlington office. Seriously, people. The "you live too far out" argument makes you look uninformed and dim.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s called before care and after school, provided at the school. Starting at 7 am in the morning and ending at 5 pm in the evening.

And every single one has a waitlist that is years long. Try again.

Actually, no. They've been underutilized since the pandemic and WFH.

Where do you live that’s having this issue?! Arlington has a waitlist. No way my kid is getting in this year. It mostly has to do with not being able to find ppl to work extended day.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't have school aged kids before telework so what did people do? Did people put their kids in before/aftercare/camps/school for 10 hours a day? How did people find time for extracurriculars if elementary kids are in aftercare until 5:30-6?

My kids were not yet school aged when COVID started so they were still in daycare/preschool. But even before COVID DH and I both teleworked multiple days per week so that at least one of us was home. Usually the commuting spouse would do morning drop off since they had to head out anyway and then the teleworking parent would do pickup so the kids didn’t have to be there past 5.

I think a lot of parents of school aged kids teleworked at least hybrid before COVID. It’s not like March 2020 marked the invention of WAH. For those who need longer hours, they use aftercare, but staffing has gotten harder in the childcare sector so spots are limited with long waitlists. Or maybe if you’re lucky you can find a martial arts type place that has a van to do school pickup and take them to do activities.

I also think a lot of the parents were just not in the workforce or were underemployed. I guess this administration thinks that is preferable to go back to.

My kids a now in extracurriculars starting as early as 4:30/5. To keep them in we’d have to take leave some days, use carpools, stagger hours, not really sure yet … thankfully my DH’s private sector job has been remote since 2018 and his colleagues are scattered across the country with no office to go to, so I guess he would have to take on more of the kid shuffling at home if I go back 5 days (holding out hope my agency’s CBA holds). I would try to jump ship out of government quickly though if forced to commute 5 days/week.

The schedule and juggling you describe is very normal. My husband is 5x/week and I am remote and do more juggling, but I can’t do it all while working during the day, so we have a nanny who helps after school with driving while I am working. Millions of people do this and it is not fun, but it is the norm.

Let me guess, either you don’t live in the DC area, or your husband is a high earner in the private sector. My husband and I are both feds and would not be able to afford a nanny to drive our two elementary aged kids to activities.

As others have mentioned camps alone offer garbage hours and after care to add on another $200 to a camp week that already costs $500 is cost prohibitive.

Our kids were 2 and 5 when Covid hit and we sucked it up and maintained our work performance and duties even though it felt impossible. We had no help. This feels like a real “f you” after we have been dedicated career civil servants over many years for different administrations.

We don’t have a problem with returning to the office, but, the extremism is the issue. Why strip people of flexibilities they had prior to Covid? Why suggest total eradication of telework? If we can even keep 1-2 days per week that will help most people feel like they can stay a little sane and manage all of their work/life balances and priorities.

Its tone deaf to act like this is a brand new and insurmountable problem. Many people are working in person for the last few years, many of them have kids, and many of them are not high earners.

Before and after care exists for a reason. If you cant flex your schedule you use it. And stop signing up for activities that start before 6pm.

No one cares, you worthless troll. This is not a campaign website. People are under no obligation to smile politely while the orange insurrectionist marches in and spits all over them.

Ridiculous overreaction to a good point. DP

Your children don’t need to do extracurriculars at 5 pm! Why are you getting mad at someone who pays a babysitter to watch and drive children around for a few hours after school because they have to work during that time when for years you have not been working during that time? Maybe check your privilege and consider other families make sacrifices financially to pay for childcare from 3:30-5:30 while you just stopped working at 3:30. Check your own privilege. It’s actually really rare to not have to pay for any after school care for elementary aged kids when both parents work.

I’m sorry you think it was a “privilege” for me to graduate college with honors and a super high LSAT score, receive scholarships to a number of highly ranked law schools, serve as editor of a law journal, clerk for a year and then use my qualifications to land a flexible government job in lieu of making private sector pay.

Do you really think that anyone who has something you don’t (whether the ability to work flexible hours, or make huge bonuses, or have a client expense account, or whatever it is) is more privileged than you? Or could it be that they worked hard and made strategic decisions?

You are welcome to have followed the same career path. Oh and I come from a very working class family, no lawyers in my family. I had to bust my butt through school for all of this.

I have never read such a narcissistic post about…childcare? Is this about childcare? I think the only biographical information you left out was your blood type.

I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out after school childcare just like the millions of people who figure it out despite the fact that they weren’t the head of the environmental law review at Fordham.

PP’s point is that there are many over-qualified feds who took the job because of the flexibility and benefits - and we wouldn’t be in the public sector without it. So making the job worse means the quality of the workforce will decrease. this is pretty basic economics.

The flexibility was never not having to worry about childcare for children below the age of about 9 - until COVID.

+100

It's insane so many Feds are short on childcare. You were never meant to work with your kids under your care while you work.

This line is getting really tired. I don't need childcare if I don't have a commute. I do now that I will be spending several extra hours a day in traffic.

Not tired. TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where do your kids go to school that they are out of your house for 8.5 hours?

My kid is in aftercare at school. But even if I maxed out aftercare I'd still be unable to do a commute, full workday, and commute.

Why? Because you moved too far out??????? Exactly. Time to move closer.

You are a moron. Are you going to pay for people to live in million dollar Arlington houses? If not, shut the hell up.

Ha where is there a million dollar home in Arlington? More like 1.5 mil if you are lucky. No one can afford to live in Arlington on a govt salary.

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Did SSA says they are following the RtO memo— which has a carve out for following the law, and therefore CBAs? Or that 100% of staff would be coming in, screw the CHA? Big difference.

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This group is angrier than the divorced women in the relationship section of the site.