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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad worked for the fed govt in the 80s and 90s and left our house at 5:00 am to drive a vanpool van from PWC to DC. He would
be home around 4 pm, except once a
month when then whole vanpool donated blood in order to get to leave work two hours early. This was a normal commuting schedule in our MC neighborhood for federal workers.
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I am/was one of those. I can't telework because my jobs don't allow it. I never have.

This whole thread is bizarre to me. I can't imagine complaining about having to show up to a job that you were hired for. How did we get so screwed up that people complain about having to work in person? [/quote]

It's not the job I was hired for. The job I was hired for was remote. If you're having trouble understanding, imagine you took a job and then you were told you had a couple of weeks to add three hours of daily commuting to your schedule. You can do it, just maybe close your eyes for a second and really concentrate if you're struggling with it. [/quote]
Serious question for you and other remote workers:

Did you really believe remote would last forever? I teleworked for a few months during covid and then went back to work. I never in my wildest dreams thought that working from home would go on forever. I knew deep down that senior leadership hated it and wanted people back and they were going to make it happen one way or another. [/quote]

You worked from home for a few months. Some of us have worked from home (at least a few days per week) for 10-15 + years and have collective bargaining agreements, negotiated with agency management, in place allowing us to do so.

So yeah, we did think this would continue. A president who unilaterally violates labor laws through the use of an EO and is gleefully taunting his own executive branch employees into quitting was not on my bingo card. Stop acting like any of this is normal.[/quote]

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