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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem arises that you can't throw money at it- there are no camps or childcare open for a delay. And the Feds with younger children who need care are likely younger, less experienced, have less leave available to take on these days. For example, I am just under 3 years so I only get 4 hours leave per pay period which is about 2.5 weeks per year. If we get a really nasty January storm, I could easily blow through a week of leave right there due to school closures. Nevermind all the other random days off and early releases. Luckily my spouse's job provides more flexibilty so I am not in that scenario but a lot of people in my office do run out of leave to take and have to take LWOP. There's also the general idea of missed productivity for the government itself, so a telework option would actually be mutually beneficial if max productivity was the goal but.. I will stop there. [/quote]

This is what all young workers (or newer to the workplace workers) go through.  It gets better as you're there longer.  But, when you're at entry level benefits and you choose to have kids, this was your reality pre Covid and now again with the second term of Trump.  I doubt you will see a lot of sympathy because many people have been through this rite of passage.  [/quote]

I have been through this rite of passage - had small kids and a job when telework was only something I could dream of. The fact that I toughed it out does not make me less sympathetic to workers and parents of little kids trying to make it work with RTO and now not even having the flexibilities that they had pre Covid. It makes me more sympathetic, remembering how hard it was for me, and not wanting other people to suffer unnecessarily.

There is something wrong with you.[/quote]

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