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i am a new fed.

I was surprised to receive an email from my supervisor asking me not to change my telework days and spend a minimum eight hours a day in the office. I had notified him few weeks ago a situation that would prevent me to be on the office on a specific day I had suggested. an alternate day he never responded. After a few weeks. He sent an email copying my skip Level asking me to stick to my approved in person days only. I am very confused. Is this a disciplinary action? Why did he never speak to me or respond to my communication sent earlier and just sent me Written, communication adding my skip level. I thought i was keeping him informed it looks like something is amiss. I am anxious and confused. what should I do [/quote]

Was it a one off re: telework day you were seeking permission to change or is it that you want a permanent, ongoing schedule change?

Them thinking you are not working 8 hours because you are not at your desk is a really unfortunate impression that has been created and one that will take time and consistency to correct. You need to understand you are asking permission to make changes, OP, not informing. They think you are playing fast and loose and are taking advantage. You need to correct that in words, in writing and in consistent action of being where you are supposed to be during agreed to hours. If you need a different work station make a proposal to your boss and get his/her decision. [/quote]

The agency parking was full on the first few weeks of my in person day hence I requested a different day when parking was available. So one off request.[/quote]

[b]Oh, OP, you aren’t a problem solver are you?[/b] You think you are fixing things but you just don’t understand that being new means you keep quiet, do your work, pay attention to how things work. You accommodate them and once you’re established yourself as a good work, then you can slowly see about getting things changed. [/quote]

OP literally solved the problem by offering to switch telework to a different day. Which is a totally logical thing to do.[/quote]
Except that isn’t how it works in Op’s agency. Or she wouldn’t have received the email from her supervisor.[/quote]

Or [b]OP’s supervisor is rigid, in addition to being a poor communicator.  Come on people.[/quote][/b]

You don’t know that at all. But we do know that OP has communication issues and poor judgment [/quote]

I think OP communicates fairly well but comes off as inexperienced, and is displaying good instincts by asking for advice.  YMMV[/quote]

Maybe you can tell us what OP means then. Quoting OP's posts:

"I was surprised to receive an email from my supervisor asking me not to change my telework days and spend a minimum eight hours a day in the office. I had notified him few weeks ago a situation that would prevent me to be on the office on a specific day I had suggested. an alternate day he never responded. After a few weeks. He sent an email copying my skip Level asking me to stick to my approved in person days only. I am very confused. Is this a disciplinary action? Why did he never speak to me or respond to my communication sent earlier and just sent me Written, communication adding my skip level. I thought i was keeping him informed it looks like something is amiss. I am anxious and confused. what should I do"

This makes it sounds like there was one, specific day in which OP could not make it to the office (car issues, or a plumber coming, or something along those lines). OP emailed the supervisor (to suggest an alternate day) who never responded until weeks later to admonish OP about sticking to the approved days. This is probably in violation of the OP's telework agreement, which almost surely states they need supervisor permission and not just notification, but it does come off as possibly OTT on the supervisor's part to relay a message weeks later about a one-time emergency switch.

"The agency parking was full on the first few weeks of my in person day hence I requested a different day when parking was available. So one off request."

Here OP is saying parking was an issue for several weeks, but it was a one off request. That is not clear to me. What is a one off request for one day, or a one time request to change the day indefinitely until parking was settled, which OP continued to do without having received approval?

"Our agency has a parking request queue which fills up months ahead of time. She may have started and not realized her in office days were already oversubscribed in parking. I doubt it was part of her intake briefing of current allocation."
"OP here that is absolutely correct. It was part of intake but I couldn’t find anything for my in office days for first 5 weeks. Now I am all set for future weeks."

Again, not clear to me. If this was 5 weeks how was it a one off request? Since OP didn't know it would end up taking 5 weeks, now I am thinking OP said they would change telework days indefinitely, and it turned out to be 5 weeks. That's at least 5 days of working on the wrong day, but could even be something like 15 instances if they are scheduled to work in person 3x a week. That's quite significant and in that case I am not surprised her supervisor wrote her an email "weeks later" (because the issue had been going on for weeks). Then add the fact that OP wasn't at their desk for 8 hours on their ad hoc unscheduled in office days and has not been clear about where they were.

In some agencies they would mark you AWOL for all that, and the supervisor was being kind to just send an email. So it really depends on what the facts are here. I am also doubting that in less than 90 days, OP has proven herself to be an excellent employee that deserves a bit of latitude. It's likely that not much work product has been produced.

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Get a life. [/quote]

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