Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:40     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I live close enough I could but as you pointed out, we also simply don't have the space. Enough of my colleagues are out of state remote and live in other states for unshakable reasons (family, spouse's job). We have been remote for over a decade, well before COVID.

So those of us who did RTO would be the band on the Titanic, playing as the ship goes down. We're fee funded, if we can't deliver work, people won't file anymore and we'll collapse and the global system will shift to one of our foreign counterparts.


"...Enough of my colleagues are out of state remote and live in other states for unshakable reasons ..."

Do these out of state colleagues still get DC location pay?


No
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:39     Subject: Re:Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Great so I work 7-3:30 and don’t answer after hours calls, excited to not n ed to work in my home,
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:35     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I live close enough I could but as you pointed out, we also simply don't have the space. Enough of my colleagues are out of state remote and live in other states for unshakable reasons (family, spouse's job). We have been remote for over a decade, well before COVID.

So those of us who did RTO would be the band on the Titanic, playing as the ship goes down. We're fee funded, if we can't deliver work, people won't file anymore and we'll collapse and the global system will shift to one of our foreign counterparts.


"...Enough of my colleagues are out of state remote and live in other states for unshakable reasons ..."

Do these out of state colleagues still get DC location pay?


No
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:34     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:Yeah he just signed EO return back to office.. federal building like NIH , IRS Jangam , FDA silver spring don’t have enough space for every one. How they are going to manage .



Many of use could be switched to telework and share offices.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:32     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:No, I’m ok with working 5 days a week. I’m not dragging my laptop home or doing work from home.


Now I go in one day a week. The worse case scenario is 3 days in 2 days home, without a set desk computer at work--I don't want to have to lug in a laptop and everything 3 days a week and then set it up at home 2 days a week. At that point I am just going to leave it all at work and go in everyday.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:30     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:I live close enough I could but as you pointed out, we also simply don't have the space. Enough of my colleagues are out of state remote and live in other states for unshakable reasons (family, spouse's job). We have been remote for over a decade, well before COVID.

So those of us who did RTO would be the band on the Titanic, playing as the ship goes down. We're fee funded, if we can't deliver work, people won't file anymore and we'll collapse and the global system will shift to one of our foreign counterparts.


"...Enough of my colleagues are out of state remote and live in other states for unshakable reasons ..."

Do these out of state colleagues still get DC location pay?
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:28     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:Yeah he just signed EO return back to office.. federal building like NIH , IRS Jangam , FDA silver spring don’t have enough space for every one. How they are going to manage .


By calling the fire marshall when there are too many people sitting in the floors in the hall trying to do public zoom meetings with tons of background noise, because there isn't enough in person meeting space.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:16     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:People here need to consider how this plays politically. The regular tax-paying working people really don’t want to hear that there are feds making good money off their tax dollars while working from home. I’m a liberal and even I kind of feel that way sometimes.


My ability to care “how this plays politically” is long gone.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:15     Subject: Re:Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My plan is to keep doing what I’m doing. I really like my job, and I’m pretty good at it. But I transitioned from part time to full time on the understanding that Jd only have to come in 1-2 days per week. I have no desire to do more than that. My job performance won’t improve but my personal/family life will be hurt.

So I won’t commit time card fraud, and I won’t be coming in five days a week. If that gets me fired, c’est la vie.


Just want to say that it is time card fraud. If you’re supposed to be in person and you’re not- it’s time card fraud. Our time cards have a code for when we’re teleworking vs in person. I’ve seen HR actions related to this and it was called time card fraud.


I’m that OP. Our time card indicates telework and onsite as well. I will correctly code what I work. So when I work from home 3 days a week I’ll code that. And as I said, if working from home gets me fired I’ll accept that.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:10     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:"Taking a break" means a break in service. If you return, all of your benefits will be calculated differently. Unless you can actually retire, this this may not be the best plan OP.


Not if you got hired prior to 2013. You're grandfathered into the pension percentage.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:04     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:People here need to consider how this plays politically. The regular tax-paying working people really don’t want to hear that there are feds making good money off their tax dollars while working from home. I’m a liberal and even I kind of feel that way sometimes.

No. You’re a concern troll.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:03     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
No, I’m ok with working 5 days a week. I’m not dragging my laptop home or doing work from home.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:00     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:People here need to consider how this plays politically. The regular tax-paying working people really don’t want to hear that there are feds making good money off their tax dollars while working from home. I’m a liberal and even I kind of feel that way sometimes.


This is an issue bc Republicans made it a political issue. Otherwise, agree with whoever said no one would think of or care about this.

As for regular taxpayers, I am one also. And IDGAF if someone doesn’t like where I work so long as I’m doing it. And judging by my many and recent performance awards, I am.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:00     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:People here need to consider how this plays politically. The regular tax-paying working people really don’t want to hear that there are feds making good money off their tax dollars while working from home. I’m a liberal and even I kind of feel that way sometimes.


And do you love traffic too? Buckle up.

Also, feds are also regular tax-paying working people.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 21:57     Subject: Does anyone thinking about leaving fed job (or taking a break) if forced to RTO 5 days a week?
Anonymous wrote:People here need to consider how this plays politically. The regular tax-paying working people really don’t want to hear that there are feds making good money off their tax dollars while working from home. I’m a liberal and even I kind of feel that way sometimes.


Well why, if the work is being done?