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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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Telework is not new. I’ve been able to telework for 20 years as a fed. So excuse me if I signed my kid up for a sport that starts at 5 on the day I am allowed to telework because my day would be well over by that point.

What I didn’t have was paid maternity leave. Do I begrudge my newer, younger cws for getting a benefit I would have loved to have? No, it’s called progress. Good for them that they don’t have to burn their annual leave to care for their newborn and come back to nothing and then scramble when you infant inevitably gets sick on day two of daycare.[/quote]

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