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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again:  it’s not the responsibility of federal workers to support downtown “restaurants.”[/quote]

Maybe not, but it is the responsibility of the federal government to care about the variability of restaurants in our economy.

You’re a civil servant….so that means you.[/quote]
Unless you’re paying for my lunch you have no business telling me how to spend my money. Why don’t you go into DC every day to buy your meals, if you’re that concerned? [/quote]

I’m not telling you how to spend your money. I’m telling you why the government cares. You work for the Government so you’re one of the affected employees. The argument that it is not the responsibility of federal employees to support downtown is moot because you work for the entity designed to care. If you don’t, that’s fine, but it’s not an invalid reason for the employer even if the employee doesn’t like it.[/quote]

Here’s why I’m unsympathetic to this argument. As a fed working in downtown DC for a decade, I can count on one hand the number of times I bought lunch out. I now telecommute 4/5 days. If they told me to come back more than that, motivated by the desire to support restaurants, I would refuse. I am not part of the restaurant equation and they have no right to police that part of my life.  It is not a valid requirement on employees to require that I work near a DC restaurant. Sure, the government might care in the abstract, but concretely, they cannot mandate RTO to incentivize my spending money. [/quote]

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