Anonymous wrote:Astonishing some of the cruel and indifferent comments on this thread about pregnancy and telework in general. Americans are a cruel and unhappy lot.

I have noticed a significant increase in the amount of anti-fed trolling on here in the last year or two.

Astonishing some of the cruel and indifferent comments on this thread about pregnancy and telework in general. Americans are a cruel and unhappy lot.

Forgot to add… Your comment of “seems like they want my water to break at work” is a bit dramatic. If you are so concerned, ask for a leave.

What is your “pregnancy related issue” OP? Is it preeclampsia or you have to pee more often?

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Anonymous wrote:Pregnancy isn't a disability.

Even women with healthy pregnancies and normal weight gain have high blood pressure, swollen extremities, and leaking at that stage. Any modern OB/GYN will give you a doctor's note saying you shouldn't be commuting / on your feet / stressed / exposed to illness during the last few weeks of pregnancy.

Dumbest post on here.

Anyone with basic time management skills is just creating cheat sheets for their coworkers at that point in the pregnancy. Why does it matter if they do that at the office or not.

Anonymous wrote:A colleague submitted her request for RA for pregnancy (sometime in 2nd trimester) and never heard back. The baby is already born and she never heard back.

I had surgery last spring and never heard back from my RA request either. I assume they got to it at some point and discarded it because the time had passed, but I don’t know.

Anyway after weeks of waiting I learned that they had a multi-month backlog (everyone processing RAs took the DRP!) and so at my agency supervisors were, and still are empowered to temporarily approve RA requests. I have two colleagues with supervisor approved temporary RAs now. A different colleague had a supervisor approved RA for the last few weeks of her pregnancy, but that was in November.

Anonymous wrote:Pregnancy isn't a disability.

Yes is very much is towards the end. It’s really not healthy for the mother or baby to stress the body if you don’t have to.

Did people read the part where OP said she has a pregnancy related condition? If you are going to troll, get the facts straight

Anonymous wrote:Pregnancy isn't a disability.

Even women with healthy pregnancies and normal weight gain have high blood pressure, swollen extremities, and leaking at that stage. Any modern OB/GYN will give you a doctor's note saying you shouldn't be commuting / on your feet / stressed / exposed to illness during the last few weeks of pregnancy.

OP, no agency has a telework policy based on weeks of pregnancy, but most agencies even now have flexibility for people who are ill / disabled with a doctor's note. I would do ad hoc with supervisor's permission while pushing the RA in the ways other PPs have suggested. If no ad hoc, go on sick leave and DO NOT WORK while reiterating that the RA would let you wrap up your work. Stay on sick leave until it's not an issue anymore, one way or another.

People on here like to dump on feds, but nearly every agency is hurting for people and desperate to keep their existing employees working one way or another.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure Karoline Leavitt will be stepping back for a bit before her baby is born. Katie Miller will likely pause her shitty podcast and Usha Vance will stop whatever minimal work she does while leaching off the taxpayer teat. But yeah, god forbid a fed telework a few extra days a week for less than a month.

Interesting how the blonde white lady who’s part of the govt and getting paid from our taxes doesn’t get a qualifier about being a leech. Let me guess, you’re a staunch liberal and horrified by ICE.

Well, Karoline Leavitt has a job.

And no, I'm not a liberal.

Ask on Reddit, OP. Preferably on your agency-specific subreddit. This forum is full of anti-Fed buffoons.

Anonymous wrote:Pregnancy isn't a disability.

The conditions you often develop late in pregnancy can be: https://www.pinesfederal.com/blog/2024/june/pregnancy-accommodations-for-federal-employees/

I was put on telework years ago toward the end of my pregnancy due to pre-campsite risk

Look into the pregnant workers fairness act. It covers exactly this scenario and should be a quick RA approval. I had an employee do this and it was processed the next day (normal RA requests take 2-4 months.)