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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So how was the week for everyone - besides the spring breakers?

Horrible? Can you keep doing it as long as you need to - like you get a new job, get old enough for a VERA etc? Anyone thinking of just quitting w no job? Or was it NBD?[/quote]

I’ve been in for a month+ by now. It’s not great, but let’s not pretend it’s horrific either.

And no, I am not kidless and/or living in NOMA.  I have one elementary school and one middle and have nearly an hour commute.

People need to keep some perspective here.[/quote]

+1. I thought it was fine too. I'm not saying it was soooo great or that I'd rather RTO than telework. But IDK it was doable and yes I have a commute too; kids are older so that likely makes it easier as they were still at activities when I got home daily and they are old enough that they do not want mom and dad at every practice anyway so I didn't feel like I missed anything.[/quote]

I wouldn’t say it was no dig deal.  I can do this for now. I have kids, two elementary.  Finding care for longer hours with such short notice was a challenge and we had to cobble together coverage. We don’t always make sports practices that are earlier in the day like we used to.  That may change for the next school year and beyond as we pivot to other things that work for our schedule.

Ask me again in 6 months, or a year and I might feel differently about whether it will drive me to look elsewhere. It is a slog. I also think it is a benefit that set us apart from private industry, especially now that so many are doing RTO.  If RTO stays for the long haul, that might make it harder to compete for talent when we finally do hire at some point someday.  [/quote]

+1 on the difficulty of finding childcare for elementary school kids being really hard on such short notice in the middle of the school year.  They could have done this starting end of the school year where people have summer camps scheduled and they could get in line early for after care options.  I get it though, they really want people to quit.[/quote]

So what did you do with elementary school kids before hand?

They presumably get home around 3:30.  So did you just work the last couple of hours of your day with them home?  (With school starting around 9, you presumably couldn’t start too early.)

If you and a spouse are both Feds and now both had to RTO, I can see where a problem arises because you could have previously staggered and had one person work early and do after school and the other do before school and work later.

But otherwise, you were spending the last couple of hours doing both child care and work, which you aren’t supposed to do, and which is part of what gives WFH a bad name.  (Cue chorus of everyone who chimes in saying their Petunia, although only 7, doesn’t need any supervision and doesn’t distract from work at all.)[/quote]

DP. I always wonder if posters like you just never had kids, or had a SAHP, or what. It doesn't take much imagination to understand the problem.

Scenario 1. There's no school bus, so somebody has to pick kids up at 3:30. Teleworking parent had a scheduled break (meaning, they worked longer to cover the time) to do pick up. Now that's not an option, so they need aftercare.

Scenario 2. Parent teleworked 7 - 3:30 and was off in the afternoon. But adding 2 hours of commute to that schedule would mean leaving work an hour earlier to pick up at 3:30 ... or finding aftercare.

Scenario 3. Kids - yes, as young as 7 - take the bus home, let themselves in, and don't need any attention until the end of the workday. But parents nonetheless want someone in the house for emergencies, plus the commute means that kid is alone an extra hour or so longer than if the parent was WFH. Kids end up in aftercare instead. [/quote]

Nope.  Two kids.  Two parents working full time.

Scenario 1 means you are working the last couple of hours when the kid is home.  Same with scenario 3, but if you were wfh, why was there a need to have the kids let themselves in in the first place.

[b]And BS that elementary, particularly early elementary don’t need attention and aren’t distracting over a two hour span that you are supposedly working[/b].[/quote]

And you think from 3:30-5:30 in the office there aren’t any distractions?  I’m distracted by others frequently and I don’t even have an assigned workspace. [/quote]

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