Reopen on Thursday or Friday
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Anonymous
If the business day has not begun yet on Thursday when Trump signs, wouldn’t Thursday be the first business day after the lapse ends? |
Anonymous
It wasn’t 40 vacation days. It was 40 stressful days with uncertain outcome. 40 days of not knowing which day they’d return. 40 days of work piling up. Weeks of dipping into savings to pay bills and being threatened with not getting paid after all. |
Anonymous
| Better to prepare for a Thursday opening ON TIME. |
Anonymous
No. The day the lapse ends is day zero. It doesn’t matter when it ends (ie, 12:01 am or 11:59pm); that entire calendar day is day zero. We’ve been told to report on day zero +1. |
Anonymous
I wish we’d hear anything from next level management. My employees are all asking me and I have nothing to tell them. |
Anonymous
40 days of being told we're unnecessary, should be fired, and don't deserve to be paid...and you now think we should be fired for complaining about unclear language around "next business day" for a middle of the night signature? When it took Congress 42 days, you want to fire us for wanting a solid 8 hours notice? I'm preparing for a Thursday return based on what my upper management has said, but I get why people who haven't gotten direction are confused. Something tells me you came in here thinking feds need to be fired regardless. So spare me with your "you'd deserve your job if you expressed more urgency," we know it's not true. |
Anonymous
| I hope Thursday. Our agency has some BS where you cannot request partial furlough days. I am excepted, and need to take care of a personal matter for 2 hours in the afternoon. So I'd like us to reopen so that I can use leave. |
Anonymous
Someone just forwarded me a screenshot of an email from an SES in another division who said to prepare for normal operations Thursday. Yeah...that's how information flows in my agency. Most upper management don't communicate so employees text each other screenshots from the ones who do. |
Anonymous
| I will report tomorrow unless trump doesn’t sign until after my tour of duty starts, which happened at least once during his first term. “Executive time” was too important to interrupt. I have a short commute, so this is much easier for me than someone who has a longer one- I guess I wouldn’t head in until the bill is signed. |
Anonymous
Seethe harder, little MAGA troll. |
Anonymous
We got an email yesterday from our division chief (sent to personal email) advising us to be ready to report to office on Thursday. |
Anonymous
DP - which agencies do you all work for? I’m at an HHS OpDiv and have heard nothing yet. I did text my team yesterday to let them know I’d be in touch as soon as I have official word. AFAIK, agencies have some discretion in terms of when people are required to return. Not weeks obviously, but I could see if Trump signs very late tonight some might say Thursday and others Friday. |
Anonymous
PP here. HHS OpDiv. |
Anonymous
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If gov opens on Thursday, my DH will be there.
I’m in the private sector so it’s nothing for me. For the fed haters, it’s completely normal to be annoyed by this whole process. People are expressing irritation. You would too, if it were you. Chill out. |
Anonymous
DP. You really don’t think it is rich that people are complaining about having to come in on short formal notice (when we have all known since Sunday this is likely and since yesterday it is extremely likely) when most of us have been off for 42 days? Come on, that’s not MAGA, that’s common sense rather than extreme entitlement. My kids are pissed we will have to get up a bunch earlier and back to the old routine, but such is life. |