Questions about DOGE and RTO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not great for parents of young children who may not have much aftercare at their daycares. Our former daycare really cut back hours post COVID. We are lucky that our older kids can stay at their elementary school until 6:30pm, but this is not the case throughout DCPS.

LMAO! That's a "you" problem not us.

Nah, that’s an everyone problem when parents are cramming the roads trying to make it before child care closes or parents need to find new jobs and the competitive pool gets harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO will work in one if two ways, depending on your agency:

1. For well respected, relatively noncontroversial independent agencies that get their budget from fees, etc, not much will change. SEC, OCC, FDIC, etc

2. For everyone else (and cfpb), things will be very bad.

You think a bunch of billionaires narcissists think the SEC is a respected, noncontroversial agency? You crazy, girl.

They need SEC to exist. In particular, to provide some clarity on crypto ICO issuances. SEC is critical to the functioning of financial markets. No one is blowing up the SEC; they just want to change the regs and enforcement thresholds.

SEC employee - not under the impression that SEC is respected because it isn't. But I do recognize self interest when I see it. I feel like they'll be mindful of what agencies impact the markets - i.e. where they have a ton of their own money - and which ones do not.

For SEC and I assume other unionized agencies also, isn't the work schedule/RTO in the CBA? Which runs until 2027. Can you just cancel said CBA tomorrow without litigation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not great for parents of young children who may not have much aftercare at their daycares. Our former daycare really cut back hours post COVID. We are lucky that our older kids can stay at their elementary school until 6:30pm, but this is not the case throughout DCPS.

LMAO! That's a "you" problem not us.

Nah, that’s an everyone problem when parents are cramming the roads trying to make it before child care closes or parents need to find new jobs and the competitive pool gets harder.

How about parents who work for private employers? How do they handle this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO will work in one if two ways, depending on your agency:

1. For well respected, relatively noncontroversial independent agencies that get their budget from fees, etc, not much will change. SEC, OCC, FDIC, etc

2. For everyone else (and cfpb), things will be very bad.

You think a bunch of billionaires narcissists think the SEC is a respected, noncontroversial agency? You crazy, girl.

They need SEC to exist. In particular, to provide some clarity on crypto ICO issuances. SEC is critical to the functioning of financial markets. No one is blowing up the SEC; they just want to change the regs and enforcement thresholds.

SEC employee - not under the impression that SEC is respected because it isn't. But I do recognize self interest when I see it. I feel like they'll be mindful of what agencies impact the markets - i.e. where they have a ton of their own money - and which ones do not.

For SEC and I assume other unionized agencies also, isn't the work schedule/RTO in the CBA? Which runs until 2027. Can you just cancel said CBA tomorrow without litigation?

Only if the CBA becomes inconsistent with federal law, which would require Congress to actually do something. Unlikely but anything is possible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO will work in one if two ways, depending on your agency:

1. For well respected, relatively noncontroversial independent agencies that get their budget from fees, etc, not much will change. SEC, OCC, FDIC, etc

2. For everyone else (and cfpb), things will be very bad.

You think a bunch of billionaires narcissists think the SEC is a respected, noncontroversial agency? You crazy, girl.

They need SEC to exist. In particular, to provide some clarity on crypto ICO issuances. SEC is critical to the functioning of financial markets. No one is blowing up the SEC; they just want to change the regs and enforcement thresholds.

SEC employee - not under the impression that SEC is respected because it isn't. But I do recognize self interest when I see it. I feel like they'll be mindful of what agencies impact the markets - i.e. where they have a ton of their own money - and which ones do not.

For SEC and I assume other unionized agencies also, isn't the work schedule/RTO in the CBA? Which runs until 2027. Can you just cancel said CBA tomorrow without litigation?

Only if the CBA becomes inconsistent with federal law, which would require Congress to actually do something. Unlikely but anything is possible

Is this all bargaining unit positions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO will work in one if two ways, depending on your agency:

1. For well respected, relatively noncontroversial independent agencies that get their budget from fees, etc, not much will change. SEC, OCC, FDIC, etc

2. For everyone else (and cfpb), things will be very bad.

You think a bunch of billionaires narcissists think the SEC is a respected, noncontroversial agency? You crazy, girl.

They need SEC to exist. In particular, to provide some clarity on crypto ICO issuances. SEC is critical to the functioning of financial markets. No one is blowing up the SEC; they just want to change the regs and enforcement thresholds.

SEC employee - not under the impression that SEC is respected because it isn't. But I do recognize self interest when I see it. I feel like they'll be mindful of what agencies impact the markets - i.e. where they have a ton of their own money - and which ones do not.

For SEC and I assume other unionized agencies also, isn't the work schedule/RTO in the CBA? Which runs until 2027. Can you just cancel said CBA tomorrow without litigation?

Only if the CBA becomes inconsistent with federal law, which would require Congress to actually do something. Unlikely but anything is possible

So they'd have to put in legislation saying all federal agencies must be back to work in office 40 hours a week, then the CBA provisions are inconsistent with federal law and the CBA/that part of the CBA is null and void? I'll roll the dice that Congress will be busy with other things though with these people who knows.

[Anonymous]

Where are you seeing 8-6? I mean if that’s the case then Fridays off for everyone! I’ll gladly do 4 tens if that’s the requirement. Otherwise Vivek better come up with some OT for the entire federal govt. Seriously, this guy is an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not great for parents of young children who may not have much aftercare at their daycares. Our former daycare really cut back hours post COVID. We are lucky that our older kids can stay at their elementary school until 6:30pm, but this is not the case throughout DCPS.

Yeah, how on earth did parents do it pre-covid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you seeing 8-6? I mean if that’s the case then Fridays off for everyone! I’ll gladly do 4 tens if that’s the requirement. Otherwise Vivek better come up with some OT for the entire federal govt. Seriously, this guy is an idiot.

that was a PP just making things up to sound scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not great for parents of young children who may not have much aftercare at their daycares. Our former daycare really cut back hours post COVID. We are lucky that our older kids can stay at their elementary school until 6:30pm, but this is not the case throughout DCPS.

Yeah, how on earth did parents do it pre-covid?

Well to be fair a lot of childcare PROVIDERS also changed during COVID so there are less options available late. Childcare is another massive problem in this country impacting far more than feds of course

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you seeing 8-6? I mean if that’s the case then Fridays off for everyone! I’ll gladly do 4 tens if that’s the requirement. Otherwise Vivek better come up with some OT for the entire federal govt. Seriously, this guy is an idiot.

The plan is for a 50 hour workweek without OT. See paragraph six:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ramaswamys-jackhammer-chain-saw-plan-force-federal-workers-back-office-rcna180732

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not great for parents of young children who may not have much aftercare at their daycares. Our former daycare really cut back hours post COVID. We are lucky that our older kids can stay at their elementary school until 6:30pm, but this is not the case throughout DCPS.

Yeah, how on earth did parents do it pre-covid?

Well to be fair a lot of childcare PROVIDERS also changed during COVID so there are less options available late. Childcare is another massive problem in this country impacting far more than feds of course

Childcare changed because they have less customers. Less customers becuase parents can work from home. If parents return to pre covid, childcare will change back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you seeing 8-6? I mean if that’s the case then Fridays off for everyone! I’ll gladly do 4 tens if that’s the requirement. Otherwise Vivek better come up with some OT for the entire federal govt. Seriously, this guy is an idiot.

The plan is for a 50 hour workweek without OT. See paragraph six:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ramaswamys-jackhammer-chain-saw-plan-force-federal-workers-back-office-rcna180732

I don't see "no OT". I suspect there are some labor violations there but whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO will work in one if two ways, depending on your agency:

1. For well respected, relatively noncontroversial independent agencies that get their budget from fees, etc, not much will change. SEC, OCC, FDIC, etc

2. For everyone else (and cfpb), things will be very bad.

You think a bunch of billionaires narcissists think the SEC is a respected, noncontroversial agency? You crazy, girl.

They need SEC to exist. In particular, to provide some clarity on crypto ICO issuances. SEC is critical to the functioning of financial markets. No one is blowing up the SEC; they just want to change the regs and enforcement thresholds.

SEC employee - not under the impression that SEC is respected because it isn't. But I do recognize self interest when I see it. I feel like they'll be mindful of what agencies impact the markets - i.e. where they have a ton of their own money - and which ones do not.

For SEC and I assume other unionized agencies also, isn't the work schedule/RTO in the CBA? Which runs until 2027. Can you just cancel said CBA tomorrow without litigation?

For a lot of the Agencies, there are rules pertaining to how telework determinations are made but there is now "thou shalt grant employees 4 days per pay period" type language. Most agencies would not agree to this because they want to maintain discretion to make tweaks around the margins, deal with poor performers for whom telework is not working, accommodate business needs, etc. CBAs will generally have some sort of out that the Agencies could use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RTO will work in one if two ways, depending on your agency:

1. For well respected, relatively noncontroversial independent agencies that get their budget from fees, etc, not much will change. SEC, OCC, FDIC, etc

2. For everyone else (and cfpb), things will be very bad.

You think a bunch of billionaires narcissists think the SEC is a respected, noncontroversial agency? You crazy, girl.

They need SEC to exist. In particular, to provide some clarity on crypto ICO issuances. SEC is critical to the functioning of financial markets. No one is blowing up the SEC; they just want to change the regs and enforcement thresholds.

SEC employee - not under the impression that SEC is respected because it isn't. But I do recognize self interest when I see it. I feel like they'll be mindful of what agencies impact the markets - i.e. where they have a ton of their own money - and which ones do not.

For SEC and I assume other unionized agencies also, isn't the work schedule/RTO in the CBA? Which runs until 2027. Can you just cancel said CBA tomorrow without litigation?

Only if the CBA becomes inconsistent with federal law, which would require Congress to actually do something. Unlikely but anything is possible

So they'd have to put in legislation saying all federal agencies must be back to work in office 40 hours a week, then the CBA provisions are inconsistent with federal law and the CBA/that part of the CBA is null and void? I'll roll the dice that Congress will be busy with other things though with these people who knows.

Yes.