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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  This is correct.  Right now (three days a week and my husband the other 2) get kiddo off bus at 4:15.  We won’t be able to do that so $700 per month to get after.  So yes,  I’m crying.[/quote]

This implies that you were providing childcare instead of working during those times, part of what RTO is meant to address?[/quote]

New poster here. For f&#k's sake. Let me spell it out for you like a child. I WFH from 7:30 to 4:00. That is a full work day. No child is in the house. I can quickly go pick my child up from school at 4:15 because it's just around the corner. When I go back to work, I will be an hour away at 4:15 and will not be able to pick up my child from school. Thereby requiring expensive after care. [/quote]

Just work from 6:30 to 3:00.  Problem solved.[/quote]

And have a little empathy for those of us who have NEVER had the luxury of popping out to pick our kids up from school because we had jobs that require us to do their job in person. Be grateful you had this privilege for as long as you did. I understand feeling sideswiped by this and do think the government should give more people time to adjust but then you have to suck it up. [/quote]

The bait and switch and no time to adjust *is* the issue here. I'm very glad I've been able to telework for years, which was mostly not as a fed. But this wasn't a favor my employers were giving me, it was a way of hiring people with my skill set. This is the equivalent of a significant pay cut for me -- would you feel gratitude at previously outearning other people if you took a job due to the pay and then they cut it?[/quote]

Exactly. Telework is the only reason a lot of us chose the jobs we chose. I have a highly desirable skill set. Nothing is keeping me in the federal government now, and I'm not the only one. Pretty sure you're going to be left with people who have zero skills and it will all come to a screeching halt. But this is what MAGA wants.[/quote]

Right. There are people with in demand skills and who are highly qualified. I  was offered other jobs that paid significantly more and chose a fed job with better telework. Telework was the single deciding factor. Now I  really wish I  had taken the higher paying jobs and am going to go back and try to see if those options are out there still. [/quote]

+ 1

To the people claiming it’s privilege or entitlement to work from home … why do people not say the same thing about salary? Obviously telework is part of the compensation package.

It’s no more privileged to want to continue with the telework conditions I was hired with more than a decade ago than it is to expect that my salary not just be lowered. How many people would just shrug and be totally cool if their employer started cutting their income and benefits because it’s not fair that other people in entirely different positions in an entirely different sector make less than them.

They call us commies while trying to argue some people shouldn’t get to work from home because other people can’t. [/quote]

This is a fair counterpoint. Telework is a privilege? Well so is your salary and benefits. Your job can cut them with the snap of a finger without any justification other than “because I say so”. If your reaction to that is “find a new job” then you are part of the problem. I say this as a former federal government leader and current business owner with over 80 employees in the tri-state.[/quote]

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