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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take time off when I need it.  I don’t work unpaid overtime.  I protect my privacy and my peace and only respond to requests from my staff during certain hours. I work out and am focusing on my health (using my sick leave to get to doctor’s appointments I always put off before).

In many ways, my life is actually better, outside of work.

At work, it’s hell.

I usually can flip a switch and turn it off when I get in my car and leave.  Sometimes I cry in my car on the way home and feel a bit hopeless.  That’s when I realize I need a break, so I take some time off.

I fantasize about quitting, moving far away, and starting a small business. Often.

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I hear you. My work isn’t hell but my agency is in this reorg limbo and the uncertainty is unsettling. Plus, it’s hard going to work knowing you aren’t appreciated and are vilified by this administration. We have zero TW flexibility-not even ad hoc for an occasional drs appt whereas others in the dept seem to have gotten some of that back. I appreciate my outside of work time so much more and try not to take it for granted. I’ve been coming in earlier and leaving earlier so I’m no longer in the office after 5pm. I find that’s much better for my mental and physical health. I take sick leave when I need to and I never check email from home unless it’s an absolute emergency. I refuse to give extra of my time until I get my flexibility back. The politicals here send us fake emails about how we’re appreciated yet we’re still treated like children. It’s disgusting. I show up for my 8.5hrs and that’s it. I’ll go back to working hard when we’re done with this regime.  [/quote]

It’s not the telework policy that’s making me crazy.  Well, it is, in the sense that I am a manager and everyone is unhappy and acting out.  I get why but they’re all also being jerks, pushing the envelope on everything, daring me to say no.  I am pretty aggravated from top to bottom right now. It’s an impossible situation.  And I just end up doing all of the work that isn’t getting done, because I like being employed.  I seriously question whether a lot of the people that work with and for me realize that they are lucky to have jobs right now.[/quote]

So say no! Or think through if it's worth it for you to say no, given that they might leave and the work situation might get worse. [/quote]

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