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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be a dangerous move for opm to rely on telework as the solution for bad weather given the many who can’t telework. I guess the rest of us don’t exist.  Yay I get to lose more leave days!

Honestly though it’s on trend for fed govt . I’ve been feeling more and more every year that my non- telework fed job just hates parents and wants us all to quit. [/quote]

There won’t be enough snow to warrant closing the government. Employees without telework agreements would get a snow day if the weather was worse but it’s been a few years since we’ve had a decent snowstorm. [/quote]

It’s a joke for those of us who can’t telework- over in the school forums everyone’s saying to get your contingency plan in place because it will be too dangerous for teachers to drive to school but it’s fine for the rest of us to drive to work?[/quote]
I’m boiling.  It is totally unfair.  Teachers (public employees, mind you) get a free day while we have to risk our lives either commuting in, burn a day of leave, or try to balance the kids, who’ll want to play in the snow, while productively WFHing.  Either OPM needs to reevaluate its priorities and commitment to families, or schools need to be the last service to close.[/quote]

Stop whining. As feds we get a ton of leave plus more telework than most of our peers. One of the only drawbacks to these perks is we are expected to be prepared to telework during what used to be snow days. Would you rather go back to the office 4/5 days a week like we did 20 years ago? There is nothing unfair about our situation [/quote]

The feds get tons of leave thing is not fully accurate. Those of us who were feds back when they had no maternity leave (just a few short years ago) have NEVER recovered.  Most of us used every single leave hour to try to stay home the basic 12 weeks or used lwop. I had only finally built up a leave balance again when covid hit and none of us got infected in till after they removed special leave for it so my leave was gone when you added up 2 kids getting it separately and myself getting it all at diff times, that was almost 18 days of leave. Oh, and then my mom died. And then my kid got the flu. and then we were finally done with daycare and started public school which has closures practically every two weeks requiring use of leave of paying for camps if you can get it.

So a forced liberal leave day does upset me when it happens.

Please do not perpetuate the myth that all feds have tons of leave there are a lot of us who are struggling. I can barely save up enough. We have never gone on a vacation because I have no leave. All we do at most is a long weekend driving distance.  I hate it.

The people I know in the private sector are all doing so much better than the federal employees in their 40s I know in this regard. ALL. The younger employees are far better off then we were if they decide to have families, but they have other challenges with cost-of-living.[/quote]

You are confusing two things.

Do federal employees get a lot of leave?  Yes, absolutely.
Have you personally had reason to use most of that leave?  Yes.  [/quote]

Boomer and GenX feds get tons of leave. New feds get 13 days.[/quote]

Show me a policy anywhere where entry level workers get more than three work weeks of (one category) of leave?[/quote]

That’s easy. At least in my experience, fresh-out-of-law-school attorneys at big law firms get 4 weeks vacation right from the start.[/quote]

And they never use it all. Trust me, I know. [/quote]

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