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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not going to read 21 pages on this, but FFS, the whining is out of control. Think of doctors, nurses, police officers, firefighters, grocery workers, construction workers, and the list goes on.

But poor, poor little you. Your life is so hard, having to go in to an office every day. [/quote]

OK, PP. Those police officers, firefighters, and other workers presumably chose those jobs. Not everyone wants to work at a desk. That’s a good thing obviously, because our society needs all different roles filled in order to function. You know what else? The public was also safer when there weren’t so many cars out on the road every day. Fewer accidents to respond to and police officers, firefighters, and EMTs able to more quickly get to accidents and injured people.

My first job after college paid 28k and I never knew what my weekly schedule was going to be until the Friday before. Sometimes it started at 9am, went to 3pm then I had a 3 hour break and worked at another site 6-9pm. Then it was randomly different the next day. Whatever, I was young, just happy to have a job and be paying back my student loans.

My next job paid 28k and was in a call center 10:30am-7pm. The next one was 35k call center 8-4:30. Next one accounting office 46k 8-4:30.  And so on and so forth. The point I am getting at is that in general, we work towards bettering ourselves and our skills in order to have better pay and work conditions. For some people, that can mean eventually working remotely after proving oneself responsible and hardworking, and to have that yanked back for no good reason other than for us to be made miserable is not merely an inconvenience.

Even though his parents are both white collar desk workers, my own son does not want to be a “laptop worker” instead he wants to be a physical therapist or sports trainer. So don’t worry, even the next generation has plenty of people who don’t want to work at a computer all day whether it’s at home or in an office.

And for those workers whose jobs require being at a physical location, their in person presence actually fulfills a purpose, as opposed to a desk worker being randomly assigned a closet to work in while the rest of their team works from other random rooms and locations hundreds of miles away. What’s the point?  It’s depressing as f***. 
 
Oh and I am posting this at 4:55 AM, because of insomnia related to IBS and psoriasis flares that just happened to appear within days/weeks of RTO and having to commute to an office 47 miles away after accepting a fully remote position.

Really, PP, just stop talking if you know so little. [/quote]

DP.

I suspect that poster is simply saying we all have it rough. You have challenges. So do we all. I’m also up all night for my own work-related reasons (not a fed).

It doesn’t have to be a competition of who has it worse. It can generally stink all around. [/quote]

NP. Yes we all have our challenges. Some are inherent to the job, like firefighting and nursing are just tough jobs in general with brutal schedules. Some challenges are inherent to imperfect human nature. We all can have sucky bosses or colleagues that make the job more miserable than it should be.

Feds are complaining because the new "challenges" imposed are totally arbitrary and done for the purpose of pissing us off personally and destroying the functionality of our jobs. This is a whole new dimension. Imagine if your boss just random decided that to stay employed this week, you must wear pink everyday, and next week you must greet everyone with a smile and audible hi. And also you need to spend 2 minutes jumping up and down on one foot. And oh you need to write a letter and get a doc note for every sick day you take. This is the sh*t we are talking about. The RTO in itself is arbitrary and stupid, but it is combined with countless other stupid policies that often make no sense, make being in the office miserable, and just makes everyone on edge and distracted the actual work that needs to get done. [/quote]

I get it. My job throws pointless nonsense at me every day, most of which I didn’t sign up for when I was hired. These tasks add up and force me to work WAY WAY over 40 hours each week. Many of us deal with arbitrary, pointless changes that severely impact our weeks.

I’m not happy it’s happening to you. It’s not that I need others to suffer because I am. But to say this is unique to Feds isn’t true. [/quote]

No, it is definitely not unique to Feds. However a lot of federal agencies forced people back because they were trying to please cabinet heads

The difference between feds and private offices is that private companies have space for their employees.  Federal agencies largely downsized their offices during Covid, relying on remote work. Several agencies were told to get rid of any leases in privately owned spaces.

It is a very long process in the federal government for an agency to acquire new space, so the agencies cannot just go and lease new space on their own. They have to go through GSA  As a result the federal employees are shoved together in small, inadequate spaces.[/quote]

No, private companies don't.  My husband was RTO.  They have hotdesks and its first come first serve.  He gets in super early but otherwise he'd have to bring his own chair and lap table, its that bad.  He was working remotely long before covid.  And, with the three hour commute each day, on a good day he's had to cut back the hours he works.[/quote]

Well that's not good. To be fair most or my current knowledge of private companies is from friends and family members who work in big law and large national insurance compsnies, and their places have tons of office space. [/quote]

It is what it is.  They are lucky.  [/quote]

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