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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]my first child is due in April 2018 and in reevaluating my life (as one does before first baby) I would like a full time telework position with the federal government.  JD with 4 years of fed. govt. experience in procurement, full time, and up for my GS-14 promotion in May 2018.

any advice on how to even begin the search for these virtual positions, tips or tricks, or what has worked for you or whether these even exist? can you recommend agencies that have full time telework options, I know GSA is one of the top ones? i'm also not sure how to apply to these GS-14 positions as many are supervisory.

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Let me guess you want to Telework and avoid paying for childcare for your baby. :roll: [/quote]

She probably wants to avoid the waste of time of commute. Nearly everyone knows that working full time you still need full time childcare. (I teleworked for 7 years...I started before I had my first kid. I had a full-time nanny but did not have to waste time commuting, which saved 2 hours a day and saved me from paying a nanny overtime over 40 hours.)[/quote]

Maybe, but a few times a year some woman pregnant with her first starts asking to Telework while also talking about how much she will save not using childcare. The answer is always a firm no, but don't act like people aren't trying to have their cake and eat it too
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DP. I have never heard this. My agency is crystal clear that if you are going to telework you still need full time childcare. This applies even if you just do it ad hoc occasionally. No one is confused about it.[/quote]

Being confused about the rules and following the rules are very different things.  I can't tell you how many times kids in the background interrupt calls with folks who are "teleworking."[/quote]

Exactly! Or ignoring the rules and following the rules are two very different things [/quote]

You can have full time childcare and your children can still come in the room when you're on the phone.  It's not like the rule is they must be locked away out of your sight.  My kids walk in all the time and make noise but they're being looked after by someone else.[/quote]

For those of you working in agencies where everyone adheres to the rules, it must be nice.  Some of us work at agencies where there is a blatant disregard for telework rules.  Mothers doing it instead of childcare and not really working.  Single people sitting by the pool on nice days and occasionally checking their mobile devices.  People spending their telework day running errands, going to the mall, etc.  I know of people who have, and continue to do, all of these things.

Specifically, I knew of three people who used telework to avoid paying for a full time nanny - all only worked occasionally during the day, and then ramped it up during naps and once their spouses arrived home.  They definitely are not working full time from home, and they are not fully available as one should be when teleworking.  All have been reported, but no one seems to care.  So, indeed, while it should not happen and it is against the telework rules, it definitely does happen.[/quote]

We get it.  You don't like telecommuting.  But do you also have such disdain for men who shoot the sh$t at work for hours?  I know men who do very little at work. [/quote]

DP.  Yes, I do.  Nothing is more morale sucking as a fed than knowing half your office doesn't do shit and that the boss would rather have the other have of the office get the work done than deal with the folks sitting on their asses.  That people abuse things in the office, which is undoubtedly true, really isn't a good justification for telework abuse.[/quote]

The driver for both telecommuting abuse and people in the office not doing anything is lack of work.  If you had enough work then neither group would be able to continue getting away with not working.  You're angry about the wrong thing.  [/quote]

That's a nice story, but not remotely accurate for my office at least.  Things simply don't get done or what should take a day takes a week.  There is plenty to do. I got so sick of a backlog on a certain type of project (and being told by people assigned to do them that it would take them at least months to get to it) I just took about 10 matters over and banged them out in a week.  There was nothing hard about it, it was just a matter of actually working for more than 10 minutes straight over the course of the day.[/quote]

Ok so instead the driver is that employees aren't punished for not getting their work done.  Makes no difference where they are located when they are supposed to be working but aren't.  [/quote]

I agree. But my first post was responding to someone who argued that in office slacking justified telework abuse, which I took issue with.

I would also add that compliance is harder to monitor when people telework and some of the worst abusers in my office telework the most (and are hardest to reach on telework days). [/quote]

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