The actual lazy staff I know love RTO, they thrive on going somewhere 5 days a week to socialize and get very little actual work done.

People are becoming little sissy Nancy Boys. When I started work it was common pre automation, Internet, email in my office that Saturday was catch up day. I used to work 15-20 Saturdays a year. I used to work 830 am to 630 pm Monday to Thursday and then 830 am to 5 pm on Friday of working Saturday.

And I had a cushy job, my firm people like me off the clock got laid extra for Saturdays. I had friends in jobs who worked like 8am to 7pm every day and no Sat which ment 20 percent less pay.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still struggling to adjust. Anyone else?

Yes. I've hit a wall and I'm going to submit a religious accommodation request.

What religious accommodation request would allow you to work from home??

There is a recent OPM memo that instructs agencies to allow telework for religious reasons.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m still struggling to adjust. Anyone else?

Yes. I've hit a wall and I'm going to submit a religious accommodation request.

What religious accommodation request would allow you to work from home??

Anonymous wrote:I found Jesus and am praying on my religious accommodation. 🙏

I actually celebrate advent and Christmas Eve (more than Christmas Day, Christmas Eve is when we celebrate)- is everyone just going to be teleworking a lot this winter?

I can’t always take Christmas Eve off because we need coverage at work, so telework would be awesome.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s all BS. The RTO policies have more exemptions and loopholes than Swiss cheese. Only losers with no agency are adhering.

It’s almost as if the whole thing is a big tesr, to see which employees are high-agency and have the creativity, initiative, energy, and fortitude to circumvent stupid crap, versus which ones are mere passive sheep rule followers. As is the case with most things in life.

I don’t know where you work but this is not the case at my agency. No loopholes, the only exemption is military spouse. No one is circumventing. Leadership is sucking up to the Trump administration by showing who is the biggest jerk and treating employees badly.

No loopholes at my agency either.

I have always been in office 3 days a week since 2021 and before that was in 4 days a week. All I’m asking for is one telework day a week. I’m a very hard worker and I love my job. But if everything is still the same in 6m I will leave. I miss telework. Even the ability to telework around a doctors appt was so helpful.

I found Jesus and am praying on my religious accommodation. 🙏

Me too. I can't do this anymore. Such a waste of energy and time!!

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Anonymous wrote:It’s frustrating. The only reason for the strict Fed RTO policies is to shed workers. But they know WHICH workers they want to shed
— The lazy, useless ones. So just get rid of them. And treat the ones that you actually like (yes, they do like and want some) with respect.

The current approach is like punishing all your kids just bc one of them sucks.

EXACTLY. Which is why I didn’t join the union. The unions focus on the weakest links and drag everyone else down. Someone should create a union only for well-educated, white collar professional Feds who actually have other options.

You aren’t very smart The unions are the ones that secured telework policies in the first place.

DP. Didn’t do us any good now did it

Anonymous wrote:It’s all BS. The RTO policies have more exemptions and loopholes than Swiss cheese. Only losers with no agency are adhering.

It’s almost as if the whole thing is a big tesr, to see which employees are high-agency and have the creativity, initiative, energy, and fortitude to circumvent stupid crap, versus which ones are mere passive sheep rule followers. As is the case with most things in life.

I don’t know where you work but this is not the case at my agency. No loopholes, the only exemption is military spouse. No one is circumventing. Leadership is sucking up to the Trump administration by showing who is the biggest jerk and treating employees badly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s frustrating. The only reason for the strict Fed RTO policies is to shed workers. But they know WHICH workers they want to shed
— The lazy, useless ones. So just get rid of them. And treat the ones that you actually like (yes, they do like and want some) with respect.

The current approach is like punishing all your kids just bc one of them sucks.

EXACTLY. Which is why I didn’t join the union. The unions focus on the weakest links and drag everyone else down. Someone should create a union only for well-educated, white collar professional Feds who actually have other options.

You aren’t very smart The unions are the ones that secured telework policies in the first place.

Neither are you. Well educated white collar professionals with options didn’t need a union for reasonable telework and flexibility. The unions over-reached and got greedy and took advantage of Covid and insisted on almost full TW (to accommodate gs-9s who were lucky to have a job). And there was an understandable backlash that screwed everybody.

Good job, unions! Look at you now!

Anonymous wrote:I’m still struggling to adjust. Anyone else?

Yes. I've hit a wall and I'm going to submit a religious accommodation request.

Ok I would have no issue RTO as a nun without kids. Do they even have to pay rent? Don't they live as a group and share household chores? They probably don't need an office wardrobe. I want nun life!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s frustrating. The only reason for the strict Fed RTO policies is to shed workers. But they know WHICH workers they want to shed
— The lazy, useless ones. So just get rid of them. And treat the ones that you actually like (yes, they do like and want some) with respect.

The current approach is like punishing all your kids just bc one of them sucks.

EXACTLY. Which is why I didn’t join the union. The unions focus on the weakest links and drag everyone else down. Someone should create a union only for well-educated, white collar professional Feds who actually have other options.

You aren’t very smart The unions are the ones that secured telework policies in the first place.

Anonymous wrote:It’s frustrating. The only reason for the strict Fed RTO policies is to shed workers. But they know WHICH workers they want to shed
— The lazy, useless ones. So just get rid of them. And treat the ones that you actually like (yes, they do like and want some) with respect.

The current approach is like punishing all your kids just bc one of them sucks.

What about any of this makes you think they want to get rid of lazy, useless Feds? How can you still be so extraordinarily naive? Where in all of these firings have you seen any assessment of utility, usefulness, work ethic, education, experience, anything?

In fact, they have been very motivated to get rid of people who were advancing their agency’s mission.