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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s “weird” and “stupid” is the notion that a president would fire his chief market regulator bc he tweaked working hours or allowed a little telework. [/quote]

I don’t care about the chairman getting fired.  I care about deeper cuts at the agency, which I do think become more likely if we are thumbing our nose at the President’s directive.[/quote]

Once again — and not sure why you can’t grasp this — nothing in the president’s directive requires 5 days in the office. Nothing. If that’s what was intended, it easily could have just unambiguously said that. So sorry you’re reading things into it and super imposing your preferences on to it.

It was actually a very reasonable EO that gave plenty of discretion and latitude to agency heads, whom the administration trusts to carry out its policies. 
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I’m interposing my preferences? Ha, pot meet kettle.

I’d much prefer to be able to telework.  RTO has been a real pain in the rear.

But, I’m not letting my personal preference delude myself into thinking the administration gave lots of flexibility to agencies.  The message was quite clear that they wanted people back in the office full time.[/quote]j

Then why are there so many exemptions?? If the EO said 80 hours per PP, then why isnt it? [/quote]

What are these many exemptions you speak of?

You can, occasionally, do ad hoc telework if you have a good reason, e.g., a midday doctor’s appointment where you wouldn’t have time to commute either before.  And of course if you have a reasonable accommodation for a medical issue.

But what else are you referring to?  My understanding is you can’t do anything that looks like regular telework.  So, for example, if your kid has therapy at 4 pm every Tuesday, you would not be allowed to even telework for two hours Tuesday to fit that in, since that would be regular telework, even just for part of the day on one day a week.

Doesn’t seem like a ton of flexibility or exceptions.[/quote]

Make up your mind. You keep saying that the EO allowed for NO exemptions, discretion, or flexibility. But then you say there’s some flexibility and exemptions. Which is it? Or are you just making it up as you go along, to fit whatever narrative you want? [/quote]

You are intentionally being obtuse.  I never said there were NO exceptions.

More importantly, there is a huge difference between being allowed to occasionally telework for something like a midday doctor’s appointment and being able to regularly telework one to three days a week.

Since you couldn’t come up either any other flexibilities, I take it that you agree that, other than those very limited circumstances, telework is not allowed.

If you think allowing this very limited flexibility means they could have permitted regular telework without creating other problems, I simply disagree.[/quote]

Ah, I see. On the one hand, you insist that the EO is strict and does not permit telework, period. At the same time, you say that various flexibilities exist and are permissible (I spy at least 5 exceptions).

You’re obviously comfortable being very inconsistent and incoherent. But most staff and true leaders are not as comfortable as you are.

So since you apparently see some implicit language in the EO (beyond its plain language), for those of us without your secret decoder ring, why don’t you lay out what the EO *really* allows and doesn’t allow? Enlighten us. [/quote]

Thanks for the offer, but I’ll move on with my life rather than continuing with this nonsense.[/quote]

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