It’s weird that I often have symptoms of Covid on the days that I’m supposed to be on the office. Could be allergies or could be a cold. Who knows?

Anonymous wrote:What happened to all the paranoia and hysteria about Covid? Funny how that suddenly disappeared with RTO. What a scam.

management doesn't care about covid, they want to pretend its gone. there is no more covid leave, but folks that are immunocompromised or have an immunocompromised close family member can apply for the temporary medical telework program which will cover 20 weeks of in-office hours. SEC will probably decline TMT for family members after the emergency order is withdrawn in may.

i'm not happy about the covid risks, but currently i just go in when others are not and mask the entire time.

What happens if you don’t come in 2x a PP? They fire you? Even if you do all your work with well?

The whole thing is just for show. Just a BS paper policy to shut Congress up. In reality, most people will rarely show up. Mgmt has neither the ability nor the desire to enforce it.

What happened to all the paranoia and hysteria about Covid? Funny how that suddenly disappeared with RTO. What a scam.

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In what way is your home set up better than in the office? Mine certainly isn’t, with high speed printing being the biggest thing I lack at home.

i... don't think i have ever printed anything in my 4 years at the SEC? There is literally nothing I need to print. Anyway, at home I'm alone, with only daylight and no fluorescent overhead lighting, and the temperature and the humidity are exactly as I want it. I have a fridge with water 15 feet away. I have fiber to the home, and 2 30in monitors with 2560x1440 resolution. i have an excellent video camera and headphone setup for meetings.

at the office I face a hallway with a lot of foot traffic, and I have two "new" 22" monitors from 2019 with 1440x1050 resolution. Those were my upgrade from 2016 18" monitors with 1280x1024 resolution. even though my office phone has a camera, webex and teams refuse to connect to it for conferencing. the in-office temp is 75 degrees on the north side of the building and 86 on the south side. the humidity is around 29%. I have to walk half a mile for food or coffee. there is nothing pleasant or efficient about working from the office.

The one good thing I can say about the office air handling is that the CO2 readings are consistently excellent unless one has more than two people in a closed door office for any period of time.

as for my office mate, I have no idea where they stay. They aren't sleeping at the office, or at least, are not sleeping in our shared office if they are. maybe they are in an airbnb or hostel?

Anonymous wrote:It’s WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE. Paying tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money basically for a building so bureaucrats can come in once a week to socialize for a few hours.

Meanwhile, thousands of hours are lost in productive time commuting, not to mention the environmental damage caused by the commute and utilities.

The only people benefitting are the those who own the parking garage.

The whole thing is a big joke and a gigantic waste of time. I. In a sane, responsible society, those responsible for this idiocy would be fired.

Lol. Please blow the whistle on this "fraud" to Congress. I'm sure they'll bust out a hearing right away on bringing to light the horrendous fraud being committed by asking highly paid federal employees to show up in the office once a week. You people are so tone deaf.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE. Paying tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money basically for a building so bureaucrats can come in once a week to socialize for a few hours.

Meanwhile, thousands of hours are lost in productive time commuting, not to mention the environmental damage caused by the commute and utilities.

The only people benefitting are the those who own the parking garage.

The whole thing is a big joke and a gigantic waste of time. I. In a sane, responsible society, those responsible for this idiocy would be fired.

So sick of the whiny babies making so much more than the rest of the government still complaining about their more generous telework policy.

NP. It’s not complaining. It’s just not useful at all to come in.

It’s absolutely complaining. I work at a different FinReg. It would be useful if you all chose to make it useful but you don’t. There is absolute use to being in person around your coworkers. There is also use to working from home most of the time. Both of these things can be true. It’s subjective. You’re asked to come in once every other week. It’s not a big deal.

It’s twice in two weeks. Makes a big difference.

Okay well, I apologize. Twice in two weeks is just way too much to ask.

That didn’t make the point you thought it made.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE. Paying tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money basically for a building so bureaucrats can come in once a week to socialize for a few hours.

Meanwhile, thousands of hours are lost in productive time commuting, not to mention the environmental damage caused by the commute and utilities.

The only people benefitting are the those who own the parking garage.

The whole thing is a big joke and a gigantic waste of time. I. In a sane, responsible society, those responsible for this idiocy would be fired.

So sick of the whiny babies making so much more than the rest of the government still complaining about their more generous telework policy.

NP. It’s not complaining. It’s just not useful at all to come in.

It’s absolutely complaining. I work at a different FinReg. It would be useful if you all chose to make it useful but you don’t. There is absolute use to being in person around your coworkers. There is also use to working from home most of the time. Both of these things can be true. It’s subjective. You’re asked to come in once every other week. It’s not a big deal.

It’s twice in two weeks. Makes a big difference.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE. Paying tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money basically for a building so bureaucrats can come in once a week to socialize for a few hours.

Meanwhile, thousands of hours are lost in productive time commuting, not to mention the environmental damage caused by the commute and utilities.

The only people benefitting are the those who own the parking garage.

The whole thing is a big joke and a gigantic waste of time. I. In a sane, responsible society, those responsible for this idiocy would be fired.

So sick of the whiny babies making so much more than the rest of the government still complaining about their more generous telework policy.

NP. It’s not complaining. It’s just not useful at all to come in.

It’s absolutely complaining. I work at a different FinReg. It would be useful if you all chose to make it useful but you don’t. There is absolute use to being in person around your coworkers. There is also use to working from home most of the time. Both of these things can be true. It’s subjective. You’re asked to come in once every other week. It’s not a big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:it's... whatever. my office mate moved 1000 miles away, so i just ensure i am not in the office when they come in for their local week (aka, thursday, friday, monday, tuesday).

somehow they are going to have to restack all of the non-contractors in sp3, as well as all of the new hires, in the next couple months since the plan is for sp3 to be empty by june for the rest of the physical handover.

the equipment is a lot shittier than what I have at home, so between the flickering overhead lights and the slightly blurry monitors I end my in-office day with a migraine. otoh, at least i only need to come in two days a pay period. under the previous CBA, I'd be stuck at only two days of telework a week for basically ever.

This id one of my biggest issues. My stuff at home is just so much better.

And yet we all seemed to manage just fine in the office before the pandemic.

I disagree, i think we were less efficient and productive then.
And to the specific point about tech, tech demands have changed significantly over the pandemic and tech in general has improved, but what's in the office is pre pandemic govt purchase. So yes of course someone's home setup is better.

I actually feel for management (a little) because I think they're well aware that productivity will take a hit with RTO but politically they couldn't stomach the union position or full remote.

In what way is your home set up better than in the office? Mine certainly isn’t, with high speed printing being the biggest thing I lack at home.

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Anonymous wrote:it's... whatever. my office mate moved 1000 miles away, so i just ensure i am not in the office when they come in for their local week (aka, thursday, friday, monday, tuesday).

somehow they are going to have to restack all of the non-contractors in sp3, as well as all of the new hires, in the next couple months since the plan is for sp3 to be empty by june for the rest of the physical handover.

the equipment is a lot shittier than what I have at home, so between the flickering overhead lights and the slightly blurry monitors I end my in-office day with a migraine. otoh, at least i only need to come in two days a pay period. under the previous CBA, I'd be stuck at only two days of telework a week for basically ever.

This id one of my biggest issues. My stuff at home is just so much better.

And yet we all seemed to manage just fine in the office before the pandemic.

I disagree, i think we were less efficient and productive then.
And to the specific point about tech, tech demands have changed significantly over the pandemic and tech in general has improved, but what's in the office is pre pandemic govt purchase. So yes of course someone's home setup is better.

I actually feel for management (a little) because I think they're well aware that productivity will take a hit with RTO but politically they couldn't stomach the union position or full remote.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE. Paying tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money basically for a building so bureaucrats can come in once a week to socialize for a few hours.

Meanwhile, thousands of hours are lost in productive time commuting, not to mention the environmental damage caused by the commute and utilities.

The only people benefitting are the those who own the parking garage.

The whole thing is a big joke and a gigantic waste of time. I. In a sane, responsible society, those responsible for this idiocy would be fired.

So sick of the whiny babies making so much more than the rest of the government still complaining about their more generous telework policy.

NP. It’s not complaining. It’s just not useful at all to come in.

Complete waste of time. Covid was a disrupter, life has changed and it can’t go back to the way it was, even if management wants it to. Gensler’s RTO message was awful, didn’t resonate at all.

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Anonymous wrote:it's... whatever. my office mate moved 1000 miles away, so i just ensure i am not in the office when they come in for their local week (aka, thursday, friday, monday, tuesday).

somehow they are going to have to restack all of the non-contractors in sp3, as well as all of the new hires, in the next couple months since the plan is for sp3 to be empty by june for the rest of the physical handover.

the equipment is a lot shittier than what I have at home, so between the flickering overhead lights and the slightly blurry monitors I end my in-office day with a migraine. otoh, at least i only need to come in two days a pay period. under the previous CBA, I'd be stuck at only two days of telework a week for basically ever.

This id one of my biggest issues. My stuff at home is just so much better.

And yet we all seemed to manage just fine in the office before the pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:it's... whatever. my office mate moved 1000 miles away, so i just ensure i am not in the office when they come in for their local week (aka, thursday, friday, monday, tuesday).

somehow they are going to have to restack all of the non-contractors in sp3, as well as all of the new hires, in the next couple months since the plan is for sp3 to be empty by june for the rest of the physical handover.

the equipment is a lot shittier than what I have at home, so between the flickering overhead lights and the slightly blurry monitors I end my in-office day with a migraine. otoh, at least i only need to come in two days a pay period. under the previous CBA, I'd be stuck at only two days of telework a week for basically ever.

This id one of my biggest issues. My stuff at home is just so much better.

At least when you go in the office you get to spend 45 minutes chilling in Ebenezer's and then 2 hours at Jersey Mikes.