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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yeah lots of feds, who earn up to 39 days off a year and get 11 paid holidays a year, can’t take vacations…[/quote]

I always wind up donating leave because I can't take it due to being busy at work.[/quote]

Who gets 39 days of leave? I thought the max was 5 weeks. [/quote]

The PP was including sick leave.

I’m a fed with 15+ years and I have almost no leave saved up.  I had kids before maternity leave was a thing and it out be deep into a hole.  It took many years to make it up and take an actual vacation.  I take about 2 weeks a year and a handful of sick days.[/quote]

On top of that you don't accumulate the max annual leave (26 days) until after 15 years of service. I won't hit that until I'm 45!

I also used up my leave balance for my last kid the year before paid leave, and WFH has helped me dig out of the hole instead of staying negative for normal life stuff. It means medical and dental appointments only require an extra 30 minutes tacked on for travel, rather than a full half day, and when kids are sick, my spouse and I can split shifts and still work half a day to make sure neither if us misses critical stuff. RTO is ironically going to mean I'll spend less total time working because of these normal life things. Right now I have the leave for it, so that's fine, but fewer work hours means less work gets done, more meetings get canceled, etc. [/quote]

Yes.  It’s been an absolute game changer for our family. I had some serious health issues this year and probably would have been out for a couple of months without WFH flexibility. And who knows, maybe I’d be a lot sicker. I live near health services and can just run out and get stuff done and come home and work.   I flex my hours and just work around my appointments.  It’s nice.

And I’m sorry if other people are jealous . They’re welcome to pay 300k for my degrees and get a similar job for mediocre pay in exchange for WFH, along with my diagnosis. I didn’t leave for the private sector to make[b] more money for a reason.  But the event horizon is approaching.  Gotta pay for college, wages aren’t keeping up, and without the WFH I can’t afford to stay in federal service.  If I’m going to cut my life short by commuting I might was well make a lot of money to leave my kids.[/b][/quote]

Yup, I'm the PP you're quoting and I've put out an application every day in the last week since my agency's RTO announcement. My logic is EXACTLY this - if I have no choice but to leave my kids and spend the equivalent of 1-2 extra workdays commuting, I'd have to be an idiot to keep doing it for the exact same pay. [/quote]

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