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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been on work calls with DoD employees around mid morning, calling into calls from gymnastics camp. Same client, couldn’t schedule Friday meetings either.

Summer swim team has fed employees (GS-15) working from the pool at 10am swim practices.

I have one client (fed employee) who worked 1/2 day Monday, 12hrs/day Tuesday- Thursday, and off on Friday. HQ agency desk job (eg not medical, shift work, etc).

I think these are the types situation that most people are upset about. Why are taxpayers paying for a fed employee to work from a pool while doing summer childcare. They should have hired a nanny/teenager to take kid to swim team. [/quote]

These things are nice to have but shouldn’t be taken as granted when the avg American people are struggling.[/quote]

#1 and 2 (calling in from midmorning kids activities) I wouldn't do, I don't let my kids do summer swim or half day camps because they're not compatible with two working parents. I'm not a GS-15 either, not all feds make the MAX salary!

But the third one...that's a 40 hour week, for someone in an HQ desk job, not covering a public station with specific open hours. Why does that bother you? Lots of nurses work three 12-hour shifts, this is that plus a half day. [/quote]

The reason nurses get the 12-hour shifts is because literally no one would be willing to work nights otherwise. If they have no nurses at night, people die. If Americans are fighting over this white-collar government job it doesn't make sense to give cushy hours.[/quote]

You didn't explain why working three longer days in a non public facing desk job is doing any harm or wasting taxpayer money. It's the same total number of hours! What's the problem? Are you not allowed? I can't do that either, but I literally don't understand your issue with this schedule. [/quote]

There are a couple of reasons why this wouldn't be allowed in a white collar job versus a nursing position. Number 1 is that during a 12 hour shift very few white collar workers are actually working 12 hours, and certainly not if they are working from home. Whereas the nurse is. Number 2 is that this is not the schedule most white collar workers follow, so then everyone else has to accommodate the 12 hour worker's limited schedule for meetings/collaboration. Maybe it's an independent contributor role with zero or very little collaboration, but that doesn't sound like the case with the PP's example above.[/quote]

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