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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After care through 6th which was awful for DD as the oldest kid there by a lot. Then I job searched until I found WFH that would allow school pick up- I still work 9 plus hour days. Prob not the answer you are looking for, sorry Op. [/quote]

Just a vent, but my job (which is now 100% in the office) [i]was[/i] the WFH job that I got in order to support school pickup. I'd change jobs again but the market is so bad right now. We've got 2 more years at this school before DD can walk 1 mile to the next school. 
-not OP[/quote]

Many people are in the same boat.

The WFH parents of elementary kids who never had to deal with commutes have a rude awakening.[/quote]

Exhibit A above. Crab in a bucket thrives on schaudenfreude. [/quote]

It’s not schaudenfreude. But life is about tradeoffs. Plenty of us have complicated situations. [/quote]

A family's income and ability to pay the mortgage, medical bills, local taxes, save for retirement and not end up on a cot in our kid's basement at 80, is a pretty big tradeoff. We're all not sole proprietors running shops in a sweet little town where the kids can skip home from the one room schoolhouse anymore. We work for cold hard agencies and corporations ran by mostly men who still think it's 1950 and mama's waiting by the door with a glass of scotch and dinner in the oven. [/quote]

You seem to be targeting your anger in the wrong place.

Pre pandemic working parents had FT Nannie’s, PT college students, after care, before care. Post COVID, working parents were used to working from home, driving kids around, going to bus stop while working from home. Now things are returning.[/quote]

Returning to what... the old way of doing things that ensures crappy real estate is being utilized. Ok, great accomplishment I guess? We found a more efficient way to operate during Covid. Cut commutes, reduce expenses, manage time better, divert that saved money to more pressing needs and more worthy causes. What's wrong with all of that? Why go back to the horse and buggy when you have a 21st century car? Because companies and the nitwit in the Oval Office is still living in the past and wants to bring us all back to his favorite time period? [/quote]

Work from home abuse. Most people I know who work from home seem to not be working most of the time. Of course not everyone is like this. They can take kids to school, pick them up, drive them to practice, go out for lunch, get nails done, work out, etc. the ones pissed are the ones who can no longer take kids to school or pick us and work out.[/quote]

I've seen plenty of onsite workers more or less wasting the day away gossiping and accomplishing little to nothing, one literally with her feet up on the desk looking at her FaceBook page. Boss did nothing about it. I'm not impressed with the supposedly superior in-person culture of some places. Those who will abuse their time will find a way to do so in person or from home. [/quote]

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