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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, just to be clear, I don’t even mind the idea of being in the office so much. I can live with RTO. What is making me absolutely crazy is the hostility. For example, suggesting that we just haven’t been showing up since Covid. First, my office has had some telework for more than 20 years so if we are getting rid of it entirely that’s really taking us back to the dark ages. Second, we’ve had pretty liberal telework since Covid but that’s because the office went through a whole analysis and concluded that’s what made sense and we were told we could telework. We weren’t awol. We were following instructions. So, fine, change the policy but don’t make it sound like we’ve been disobedient children.

Voight says he wants us to feel trauma and well I guess I am. I feel incredibly insulted after working hard for the govt for years.

The crazy thing is that in his testimony last week he praised the civil servants he worked with when he was last at OMB. I totally don’t get why he is making a statement like that on the one hand, and saying he wants to inflict trauma on civil servants on the other.[/quote]

Yes. It is really sad.  I am so sad.  I have worked hard for 20 years and to be treated with such utter disrespect and vitriol is awful.  We are emergency responders and step up during times of need so this is a really crappy feeling.[/quote]

I feel the same way. [/quote]

I’m honestly so sad. Not about RTO. I thought we might be back more even under Harris, but sad about the contempt and ignorance about government and its workers. Are there some duds? Absolutely. I haven’t had to deal with HR much but I understand it’s ridiculous. But I’ve dealt with 100s of agency staff on issues of substance  and approx 60 percent are excellent, 20 percent good, 15 fair and maybe 5 percent I think are not good. People work weekends, long hours, on vacation…[/quote]

Yes we put in long hours.  During COVID the crew of us who were online until midnight after our kids went to bed.  Coming in to work on holidays because we had briefs due.  I've had over a decade straight of Outstanding ratings.  [/quote]

I feel the same as you all. It’s truly the bad apples and our inability to handle them that’s gotten us where we are. I have watched managers handle and try to fire certain employees for years without succeeding. I too have trouble with it. [/quote]

No, I don't concede that. There could be zero bad apples and they'd still do this. If we were 100% in person they'd do something else. Because the only point is to scapegoat and hobble the government. [/quote]

Do you actually know any republican voters?

I ask because I frequently receive questions about remote work and there is a general consensus that private sector workers go into the office, but federal workers do not.

It’s repeated on here over and over again that it’s about hate.  I disagree. Yes, there are some people who simply hate federal workers.  But if you think it’s about hate you’re missing the point. It’s about perceived fairness.

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