RTO:Traffic is atrocious
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Anonymous
I’ve only seen the new gates jumped a couple times and I’ve been back in office for far longer than three weeks. Pre-new gates it was definitely constant. |
Anonymous
| You knew where you job was when you bought your house. Poor choice on your part. |
Anonymous
Feds are not the ones supporting expensive downtown restaurants. Maybe sandwich shops, but even then, the closest shop to my office now is a two block walk and lunch is 30 minutes. There isn’t enough time to walk there and back, order, eat, and get back through security. Plus, it’s like $15 for a sandwich I can make at home for a couple dollars. I’ve been in the office full time for 3 weeks and I have yet to spend a dime downtown. I’m also a DC resident, so spend almost all my money in DC and am spending less overall because I had to quit my gym, can no longer do dinner out on weeknights because I get home so much later, gave up the personal trainer since I can’t do that before my TOD anymore with the commute, quit my pool league since I don’t want to stay up that late anymore, etc. So all told I’m probably spending close to $800 less a month now. |
Anonymous
Many people bought post pandemic when commutes were very different. My job was in my house at that point. |
Anonymous
Well you’re not so bright then thinking you’d work from home forever. Enjoy the traffic |
Anonymous
Me too, exactly. |
Anonymous
Meanwhile my former employer cannot find workers and I have to go in to help out. Where is the disconnect? They have ads up everywhere. It's a great place to work with $30-$40+ an hour depending how fast one can run. They are nowhere near offices, but are very busy. The restaurant work is not good enough for many with degrees. The resumes restaurant does get, show people changing jobs like underwear. The work ethic of workers from 20-30 years ago versus now, can't be compared. Only the kitchen workers and anyone over 45 still keeps going til the last customer leaves. There has been some kind of shift. Restaurant work is somewhere in the middle when it comes to ability, but DC seems to have the highly qualified and not qualified workers. Everyone talks how slow business is and I have heard it for decades now. Nobody mentions how bad business owners are at budgeting, expenses, economy, or seeing how the incoming laws may affect their business. Sorry for my English. Me foreign-born and I cannot write to save my life. Just know that restaurant are hiring. Three of my ex employers have asked me to come in and help within last 3 months. |
Anonymous
Me, me, me… Are you also happy how things are going at HHS? |
Anonymous
While there is RTO there is also lay off. And most of them are aware on what is happening and what the future looks like, and they bag their lunch. |
Anonymous
I’m on the Camden line so a different line than you but it’s about half full? I always get a seat to myself, parking lot is full by 8am. The only thing I’d check is if that line shares tracks with other trains as that can cause delays. The Marc is also quiet and safe. I alternate between the Marc or metro’ing from Greenbelt and the Marc is easier. |
Anonymous
Even if I make it through the RIF, I’m not going to be spending $20 on lunch on a regular basis. Just not happening. Instead of grocery shopping at my neighborhood TJ for WFH lunch items, I shop at the TJ closer to my office for lunch supplies I bring to work. Literally zero difference in my spending or the retail beneficiary. |
Anonymous
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So move. I work in VA and live MD traffic is bad. I could just move near office. That’s not a business reason to WFH.
I don’t as 63 and could get laid off any moment so why bother. Others have cheap house further out or spouses who work other direction, We all have reasons. |
Anonymous
I think going downtown it might be the same or similar, but if you are going suburb to suburb (like I am) you are looking at driving or taking a bus to the metro, taking the metro, and then taking a bus to the facility and the bus only runs every 30 minutes. It’s a substantially longer commute, even if you time it out well with the busses. |
Anonymous
| The thermostat says it’s 69 |
Anonymous
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Funny part of RTO govt workers barely work long hours so they spend little near the office and they have almost no ability to expense food. They dont get how RTO will increase restaurant sales.
When I worked Pre-Covid in a job I leave for work at 655 am Like clock work. No time to eat breakfast at home. I always get coffee, bagelt etc by work at 815 am on way in the door. I always ate lunch out five days a week. A lot of times we work though lunch and I order food for staff and expense it. Then we take people out for dinner drinks, expense it, or meet friends happy hour and of course out of pocket. They holiday parties etc. I would buy around 600 meals a year by work. And since I was at work 10-11 hours a day my eye doctor, medical doctor, pharmacy, where I bought birthday cards, shoping for birthdays etc all by work. If I had a 9-5 job no OT I could go quick in and out and bring lunch. When I went remote it al stopped. I am back to work three days a week in a sleep DC 9-5 job. I eat breakfast at home, bring lunch one a week buy lunch twice a week. But that is not replacing my spending of past. People who bring lunch and not spending good luck with that when you work 8am to 8 pm every day in a place with no pantry or kitchen, |