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[quote=Anonymous]What are agencies doing?

Have the most absurd coworker at FDA (we're in different groups but groups work together and somehow she has "befriended" me). New employee - not even 2 years in. Took a maternity leave, then FMLA, then a second maternity leave. Somewhere in the middle of this she was RIFed in the big FDA RIF. Has been hired back along with the rest of her group, but isn't returning for a few months because she wants to finish maternity leave. So she's basically telling people she won't be coming in - she'll telework; we are 5 days/wk RTO and this was made clear to her upon rehiring and she said yes. The open secret (because she talks a lot) is that she can't come back because she lives many states away - think middle of the country. But this is one of those jobs where a condition of being hired was living within 60 miles. She used a relative's local address and acted like she lived there. So she has no exemption or reasonable accommodation to telework but just . . . is. I'm at the point where I'm not comfortable knowing some of this esp. lying about the address. As she called and told me all this and says her boss has agreed to look the other way (IDK how much of that I believe) expecting me to be like OMG you're sooo lucky I was like uh . . . have you thought about certifying your timesheet? About whether they're checking badge entries? About whether your peers are going to be pissed? The answer to everything is NBD. Frankly I think the peers are going to be the issue here. Since we have minimal flexibility people are VERY attuned to who is getting what - like if someone gets to ad hoc telework more than others, you hear about it. In this case it isn't like oh there was that one week Bob got 2 ad hoc telework days - it's permanent 5 days/wk with no RA in a group that does not do that. How are people not going to go complain to the higher ups, HR, anyone who'll be like yeah we can't be allowing this?

I'm staying out of it and honestly if someone was doing this being like it'll take them a few weeks to catch up to me, give me an ultimatum, and fire me - so I get paid for a while longer, I'd kind of not disagree. This woman thinks - what is anyone gonna do - and this'll be permanent. I said very little to her just - well good luck . . . .[/quote]

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