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Anonymous wrote:I think it is Biden’s commercial real estate donor class.

It's more than that. DC is going to face a massive property tax shortfall if office buildings get revalued downward by 50%. CRE pays property tax rates that are 2x of DC homeowners.

It will start a services cut-tax hike spiral on the remaining residents if CRE takes a big haircut. It will be Democratic-voting big cities that will face the brunt of these revenue shortfalls. Crime will go up, schools will get worse, poverty alleviation programs get eliminated, etc.

My kid is in DPR summer camp right now at our local park. It's an amazing program and costs me $150 for two weeks for 8am-6pm daily care + all food covered. It's safe, fun, and has a good curriculum of play + art + learning. It's dirt cheap and he has fun. If CRE gets revalued down by 50%, that summer camp option gets eliminated. Or it goes up in price so much that poor and MC DC families can't afford it.

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Anonymous wrote:The Biden admin just keeps pissing the wrong people off and it's going to back fire royally. They keep pushing they will see what's going to happen next election.

+100 THIS!

This idiocy was floated in another thread on this topic. It's as silly now as it was then.

I’m not sure I’d want to f-around with the Virginia vote.

Precisely which Republican candidate will be better for federal workers (i) on WFH issues, and (ii) generally speaking than Biden?

DP. All it takes is a a relatively small number of voters to sit out the election, and Virginia is red again. Now, when small business owners in the burbs (who tend to lean right) start losing money to DC… they’ll gladly turn out to vote for republicans. Madness.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a die hard liberal but this whole post has me feeling like feds are special snowflakes.

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They’re not talking about returning to office all 5 days of the week. Why is everyone losing their $hit over this?

I'm not losing my $hit, it is very frustrating, given that I have scheduled my kids' multiple therapies around thinking that I would only have to commute two days per pay period (if I am at home I can either use about an hour, vs. about 3 hours of leave, or do it in the early evening, since I have no commute). Now I may have to try to unwind that or pay someone to take them to them as scheduled. It definitely doesn't reflect appreciation for all of the extra hours I have put in for this job, and the work-related travel I already do, which takes me away from my family during non-business hours. I'm likely not quitting the job over it, but it's not a good thing for me or my kids.

What did you do before 2020? My kids were young before telework existed, and I had to use a lot of my leave for those types of things. It's nice to save your leave for just "fun" stuff, but this is life with kids.

It's this type of privilege that pisses the rest of the country off about Feds.

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Anonymous wrote:The Biden admin just keeps pissing the wrong people off and it's going to back fire royally. They keep pushing they will see what's going to happen next election.

+100 THIS!

This idiocy was floated in another thread on this topic. It's as silly now as it was then.

I’m not sure I’d want to f-around with the Virginia vote.

Precisely which Republican candidate will be better for federal workers (i) on WFH issues, and (ii) generally speaking than Biden?

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Anonymous wrote:Eh, Democrats are going into this next election cycle taking core constituencies for granted (the same mistake the Republicans made last cycle). Fed workers are just one of them, pushed aside to get donations from large commercial real estate interests. Maybe it will work for them, maybe it won’t.

Are Federal employees core constituents of the Democrats only? Or are they like most of America, split down the middle.

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Anonymous wrote:The Biden admin just keeps pissing the wrong people off and it's going to back fire royally. They keep pushing they will see what's going to happen next election.

+100 THIS!

This idiocy was floated in another thread on this topic. It's as silly now as it was then.

I’m not sure I’d want to f-around with the Virginia vote.

Precisely which Republican candidate will be better for federal workers (i) on WFH issues, and (ii) generally speaking than Biden?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is Biden’s commercial real estate donor class.

It's more than that. DC is going to face a massive property tax shortfall if office buildings get revalued downward by 50%. CRE pays property tax rates that are 2x of DC homeowners.

It will start a services cut-tax hike spiral on the remaining residents if CRE takes a big haircut. It will be Democratic-voting big cities that will face the brunt of these revenue shortfalls. Crime will go up, schools will get worse, poverty alleviation programs get eliminated, etc.

My kid is in DPR summer camp right now at our local park. It's an amazing program and costs me $150 for two weeks for 8am-6pm daily care + all food covered. It's safe, fun, and has a good curriculum of play + art + learning. It's dirt cheap and he has fun. If CRE gets revalued down by 50%, that summer camp option gets eliminated. Or it goes up in price so much that poor and MC DC families can't afford it.

I'm all for wfh, but sending people back into the office, so that rents and valuations can be higher, so you can enjoy cheap summer camp is the most ridiculous and selfish argument I have ever heard.

The arguments on both sides are selfish. Some people benefit, others lose. Funding social programs in major cities is really one of the best ones I've seen yet.

I wish people would just admit that instead of acting like RTO is definitely going to do greater good for all and the costs for (for example) young and mid-career GS 7-12 feds who can't afford to live in DC with a family and have to brown bag lunch anyway are meaningless. Feds are being told to suck it up for the benefit of others as a term of employment, regardless of individual circumstance and need. Let's just be honest here.

Feds are being told to suck it up because that’s what Zients’s private equity buddies want.

How do you know that Zients has PE buddies? Maybe he doesn't.

Anonymous wrote:Eh, Democrats are going into this next election cycle taking core constituencies for granted (the same mistake the Republicans made last cycle). Fed workers are just one of them, pushed aside to get donations from large commercial real estate interests. Maybe it will work for them, maybe it won’t.

Anonymous wrote:The Biden admin just keeps pissing the wrong people off and it's going to back fire royally. They keep pushing they will see what's going to happen next election.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is Biden’s commercial real estate donor class.

It's more than that. DC is going to face a massive property tax shortfall if office buildings get revalued downward by 50%. CRE pays property tax rates that are 2x of DC homeowners.

It will start a services cut-tax hike spiral on the remaining residents if CRE takes a big haircut. It will be Democratic-voting big cities that will face the brunt of these revenue shortfalls. Crime will go up, schools will get worse, poverty alleviation programs get eliminated, etc.

My kid is in DPR summer camp right now at our local park. It's an amazing program and costs me $150 for two weeks for 8am-6pm daily care + all food covered. It's safe, fun, and has a good curriculum of play + art + learning. It's dirt cheap and he has fun. If CRE gets revalued down by 50%, that summer camp option gets eliminated. Or it goes up in price so much that poor and MC DC families can't afford it.

I'm all for wfh, but sending people back into the office, so that rents and valuations can be higher, so you can enjoy cheap summer camp is the most ridiculous and selfish argument I have ever heard.

The arguments on both sides are selfish. Some people benefit, others lose. Funding social programs in major cities is really one of the best ones I've seen yet.

I wish people would just admit that instead of acting like RTO is definitely going to do greater good for all and the costs for (for example) young and mid-career GS 7-12 feds who can't afford to live in DC with a family and have to brown bag lunch anyway are meaningless. Feds are being told to suck it up for the benefit of others as a term of employment, regardless of individual circumstance and need. Let's just be honest here.

Feds are being told to suck it up because that’s what Zients’s private equity buddies want.

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Anonymous wrote:The Biden admin just keeps pissing the wrong people off and it's going to back fire royally. They keep pushing they will see what's going to happen next election.

+100 THIS!

This idiocy was floated in another thread on this topic. It's as silly now as it was then.

I’m not sure I’d want to f-around with the Virginia vote.

Precisely which Republican candidate will be better for federal workers (i) on WFH issues, and (ii) generally speaking than Biden?

Anonymous wrote:Right now a tornado alert issued and all federal workers in office told to go home by 4pm.

Guess what it is 415 pm now and no added traffic on 95. Guess what Federal workers are home in their PJs watching Netflix. There are none in the office to actually be sent home early.