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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in a child care center and our phone is ringing off the hook today.[/quote]

This makes me want to cry.

Many of us are planning on working 6-2:30 or 7-3:30 so we can spend more time with our kids. Typically my work would hate that (I work with California) but I dgaf.

DH drops the kids off in the morning and I'll get off work earlier to get them.[/quote]

How do you think the rest of us raised our children? This is why so many of us non-Feds just can't get on board with all this upset. 100% teleoworkforce was never ever the goal. It was temporary and I can't understand how so many people didn't understand that.[/quote]

RTO is the equivalent of forcing the use of a fax machine.  You had to commute and put your kids in aftercare- congratulations! 🎉. Happy for you! 🥹.

None of that is necessary now.  We have the technology to do our work from home and save the government a ton of money and it’s time to move on.

My husband will stay remote regardless but “I did it the old way” is a Neanderthal mentality.  We don’t have to inconvenience ourselves for people who don’t understand that I don’t need to be in a cubicle in a rat infested building in order to be productive.[/quote]

Nah, it’s more the hand-wringing and crying that it’ll be next to impossible to work in-person if you have young kids.  When many of us did just that without *any* TW.

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I know this is difficult for you to understand but not everything in the world is about you.

I know you probably resent the fact that remote workers enjoy more time with their families and just doing the things they love to do while being totally productive at work.  It’s actually a positive for my children and society that they can come home from school, open the door, and find me there, working but still able to kiss them hello and ask them about their day.

Once you realize that life can be so much better and that you can get the same or even more work done, of course you don’t want to go back to commuting, packing sad lunch, and smelling your cubicle neighbor’s farts all day.  Don’t let your base jealousy make you dumb.  Try to want better for other people.[/quote]

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