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This is the crux of it.  Too many people who feel they suffered so everyone else must too.
So. Many. Aholes.[/quote]
But how does an agency balance it with those that can't telework?

I can't telework and I was in person all through covid. Morale for the in person workforce was awful and we constantly lost people who went for telework jobs. I spent $300 in gas alone to get to the office when my coworkers sat at home and complained if they had to come in one day per month to keep the network connection active.

You can't effectively run an agency when 80% of the workforce works at home and gets to live a vastly better life and tell the other 20% to suck it up.

If anyone has a serious answer to this then I'd love to hear it. Saying "suck it up" to the in person workforce isn't the answer. [/quote]

I'm not really sure what you are asking (I'm promise I'm not being snarky).  There are some jobs that have never switched to telework, because they cannot be done remotely.  That hasn't changed.  Patient care, animal care, lab work, on-site security, on and on.  But there are lots of jobs that can be effectively done from a remote workstation at home.  [b]Why should someone whose job can be effectively completed off site be forced to commute?[/b][/quote]

Because those same parents lose their ever-loving minds when their kid's in-person teacher gets a snow day the parent doesn't think they "deserve."[/quote]

Oh FFS.  What a ridiculous generalization.  Everyone must pay because you met a ahole parent.  Oh well sure sure that make sense.[/quote]

It was anecdotal. A lot of people take essential workers for granted and treat them like crap. And complain when they want higher pay, more days off, etc. You should see my neighborhood listserve if the garbage truck doesn't come one day, school is called off, they have to wait at the doctor's office, etc. But all these same people literally cannot imagine having to RTO. [/quote]
I don't know the people on your listserv, but it's possible to complain about these things and also respect the people doing the work. Doctors offices notoriously understaff and overbook. The waste management company should have back up staff in case someone gets sick. Of course, in the name of making things efficient, we remove all contingency and then create situations where people complain about the person in front of them instead of the people who really created the problem.[/quote]

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