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[quote=jindc]I'm a fed in an agency so tight for money we have to buy our own tissues.  
I've had a couple other job offers recently, but given that I'm pregnant (and these jobs were ridiculous pay cuts), it's a terrible time to leave my job since I have saved up a ton of leave and would have no rights under FMLA at a new position. So I'm sticking it out.

However, I've mentioned to my boss and the deputy that I'd like to return part time - not forever, but at least for a good chunk of the first year.  It might be forever, I don't know.  I don't know the logistics of it all yet - finding a part time nanny share, maybe I'll want to come back FT before I thought.  I don't know, I just know that I don't want the pressure to come back full time as a FTM. Not working is not an option financially for us.  And no, we don't live beyond our means, before I get chewed out by some SAHM about how "anyone can make it work" (having a husband who has been deployed to war twice made finding a stable job difficult until recently, but he has a good career path now, thankfully).  So please don't say this is an option because it currently isn't.

What type of things do I ned to outline to my supervisor about my allowing me to work PT would benefit the office?  I work with Congress, and they aren't in 5 days a week.  I'm always on my blackberry responding even though I'm not paid for that time.  Much of the work I do could be done from home, but we have a no telework policy.  I'm at a loss for how to outline why it's beneficial to the office beyond retaining me and having me produce the same work for less cost to the Staff.  There is no one on the Staff that is currently PT according to HR.

How did you sell this?  What did you do if your boss said no?  If you're a boss, what do you want to hear your employee say that would make this arrangement seem beneficial to everyone?  If you asked for such an arrangement, did the fact that other civilians might ask for the same thing scare your boss into denying it? [/quote]

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