Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:51
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Been going in for 25 years. Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time. Yes I have been promoted many many times.
Please share your routine. I've teleworked in some way since the late 90s and can't see how we will manage the activities. Perhaps you have a short commute or family help. I have a long commute and no family in the state. Would love to hear your positive helpful suggestions.
DP. I had my first kid in 2003 and we didn’t have telework until 2015. No family either to help. 50 min commute for me, so I started at 6am and had afternoon/evening kid duty, and my husband had mornings. Until he took a job in DC with a newly 2 hour commute. Had to get creative there.
So it helps if you and your spouse can juggle hours like that. But still we had to do before-and after-care at the school. Which was also open for school holidays, early dismissals, many snow days.
Camps in the summer. My daughter practically lived at her gymnastics gym the entire summer with camps and their before and after care.
My kids also stayed home alone on a number of summer days at a younger age than a lot of DCUM parents would allow. Fortunately they were responsible and I could do that.
I also hired a high school neighbor to pick my daughter up from school to get her to her gymnastics practices that I couldn’t get back in time for.
Used a lot of leave. Vacations were minimal because of that.
Both kids in sports and I lived out of my car. While they were at practices in evenings I ran a lot of errands. I’d often bring a cooler and grocery shop.
I often felt like a shark - if I stopped swimming I’d drown!
What career path has promotion potential for someone who ends their workday at 3 PM? That’s pretty unusual to advance and that scenario.
And Young kids staying home alone at like age 7 or so it isn’t about the kids being responsible, it’s about the kids responding appropriately to an emergency, so you just got lucky
Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:48
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Been going in for 25 years. Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time. Yes I have been promoted many many times.
Please share your routine. I've teleworked in some way since the late 90s and can't see how we will manage the activities. Perhaps you have a short commute or family help. I have a long commute and no family in the state. Would love to hear your positive helpful suggestions.
DP. I had my first kid in 2003 and we didn’t have telework until 2015. No family either to help. 50 min commute for me, so I started at 6am and had afternoon/evening kid duty, and my husband had mornings. Until he took a job in DC with a newly 2 hour commute. Had to get creative there.
So it helps if you and your spouse can juggle hours like that. But still we had to do before-and after-care at the school. Which was also open for school holidays, early dismissals, many snow days.
Camps in the summer. My daughter practically lived at her gymnastics gym the entire summer with camps and their before and after care.
My kids also stayed home alone on a number of summer days at a younger age than a lot of DCUM parents would allow. Fortunately they were responsible and I could do that.
I also hired a high school neighbor to pick my daughter up from school to get her to her gymnastics practices that I couldn’t get back in time for.
Used a lot of leave. Vacations were minimal because of that.
Both kids in sports and I lived out of my car. While they were at practices in evenings I ran a lot of errands. I’d often bring a cooler and grocery shop.
I often felt like a shark - if I stopped swimming I’d drown!
Excellent suggestions. Build a community if you don’t live near family to arrange pickup and drop offs. Stagger your work hours. Use before or after care. Orrrr take a temporary break from the workforce .
Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:47
Subject: So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Ps. My telework, in 2015 to 2020 was two days a week.
Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:45
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Been going in for 25 years. Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time. Yes I have been promoted many many times.
Please share your routine. I've teleworked in some way since the late 90s and can't see how we will manage the activities. Perhaps you have a short commute or family help. I have a long commute and no family in the state. Would love to hear your positive helpful suggestions.
DP. I had my first kid in 2003 and we didn’t have telework until 2015. No family either to help. 50 min commute for me, so I started at 6am and had afternoon/evening kid duty, and my husband had mornings. Until he took a job in DC with a newly 2 hour commute. Had to get creative there.
So it helps if you and your spouse can juggle hours like that. But still we had to do before-and after-care at the school. Which was also open for school holidays, early dismissals, many snow days.
Camps in the summer. My daughter practically lived at her gymnastics gym the entire summer with camps and their before and after care.
My kids also stayed home alone on a number of summer days at a younger age than a lot of DCUM parents would allow. Fortunately they were responsible and I could do that.
I also hired a high school neighbor to pick my daughter up from school to get her to her gymnastics practices that I couldn’t get back in time for.
Used a lot of leave. Vacations were minimal because of that.
Both kids in sports and I lived out of my car. While they were at practices in evenings I ran a lot of errands. I’d often bring a cooler and grocery shop.
I often felt like a shark - if I stopped swimming I’d drown!
Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:38
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Been going in for 25 years. Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time. Yes I have been promoted many many times.
Please share your routine. I've teleworked in some way since the late 90s and can't see how we will manage the activities. Perhaps you have a short commute or family help. I have a long commute and no family in the state. Would love to hear your positive helpful suggestions.
What did you do before the pandemic? Just go back to that.
You grasp that people have kids and those kids grow and change and have different needs, right? Also that the pandemic did change a bunch of childcare issues, at least in the DMV. Material conditions change over time.
But I’d also like to hear your routine. Do help us with positive insights.
Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:35
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:good luck to anyone going to Navy Yard; there are supposed to be like 10,000 cars trying to fit in 3,500 spaces. May the odds be ever in your favor!
Super curious, but what is leadership saying about this? We expect to be in the same boat at our agency next month and so far crickets. We also don’t have public transportation as an option.
They don't need to be concerned about how grown adults get to work and park.
When there is physically not enough parking on site they do. How do you expect people to be at work if, as PP said, there is no parking and no public transit option?
Do you people still not get it? They aren’t concerned because they are planning to slash personnel to the bone. The fact that it’s crowded and un-comfy in the meantime is, as far as they’re concerned, just an added bonus.
End of thread. People…..THEY DONT CARE. The more you are uncomfortable, the more likely to leave and they get what they are aiming for. They could care less about the logistics!
Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:34
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Been going in for 25 years. Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time. Yes I have been promoted many many times.
Please share your routine. I've teleworked in some way since the late 90s and can't see how we will manage the activities. Perhaps you have a short commute or family help. I have a long commute and no family in the state. Would love to hear your positive helpful suggestions.
Sounds like it could be my daughter's teacher. It.helps that lives.in the neighborhood less.than 5 minutes from school, and my daughter claimed the teacher goes home during lunch to care for the dog. Flexibility goes a long way.
Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:33
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Been going in for 25 years. Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time. Yes I have been promoted many many times.
Please share your routine. I've teleworked in some way since the late 90s and can't see how we will manage the activities. Perhaps you have a short commute or family help. I have a long commute and no family in the state. Would love to hear your positive helpful suggestions.
What did you do before the pandemic? Just go back to that.
Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:30
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Been going in for 25 years. Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time. Yes I have been promoted many many times.
good job! here is your cookie!
THanks! Just thought I would add something positive to all the whining posts.
lol…they can’t help but whine.
Anonymous
02/10/2025 19:15
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Been going in for 25 years. Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time. Yes I have been promoted many many times.
Please share your routine. I've teleworked in some way since the late 90s and can't see how we will manage the activities. Perhaps you have a short commute or family help. I have a long commute and no family in the state. Would love to hear your positive helpful suggestions.
Anonymous
02/10/2025 17:10
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:good luck to anyone going to Navy Yard; there are supposed to be like 10,000 cars trying to fit in 3,500 spaces. May the odds be ever in your favor!
Super curious, but what is leadership saying about this? We expect to be in the same boat at our agency next month and so far crickets. We also don’t have public transportation as an option.
They don't need to be concerned about how grown adults get to work and park.
When there is physically not enough parking on site they do. How do you expect people to be at work if, as PP said, there is no parking and no public transit option?
Do you people still not get it? They aren’t concerned because they are planning to slash personnel to the bone. The fact that it’s crowded and un-comfy in the meantime is, as far as they’re concerned, just an added bonus.
Anonymous
02/10/2025 15:49
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:good luck to anyone going to Navy Yard; there are supposed to be like 10,000 cars trying to fit in 3,500 spaces. May the odds be ever in your favor!
Super curious, but what is leadership saying about this? We expect to be in the same boat at our agency next month and so far crickets. We also don’t have public transportation as an option.
They don't need to be concerned about how grown adults get to work and park.
When there is physically not enough parking on site they do. How do you expect people to be at work if, as PP said, there is no parking and no public transit option?
Anonymous
02/10/2025 15:36
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:good luck to anyone going to Navy Yard; there are supposed to be like 10,000 cars trying to fit in 3,500 spaces. May the odds be ever in your favor!
Super curious, but what is leadership saying about this? We expect to be in the same boat at our agency next month and so far crickets. We also don’t have public transportation as an option.
They don't need to be concerned about how grown adults get to work and park.
Anonymous
02/10/2025 15:18
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:good luck to anyone going to Navy Yard; there are supposed to be like 10,000 cars trying to fit in 3,500 spaces. May the odds be ever in your favor!
So insane.
there is 4400 spaces and closer to 17K people on base.
Anonymous
02/10/2025 15:04
Subject: Re:So who is back to office tomorrow morning?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Been going in for 25 years. Yes I have kids. Yes I have a dog. Yes my kids have been in many activiites. Yes we made them in time. Yes I have been promoted many many times.
good job! here is your cookie!
THanks! Just thought I would add something positive to all the whining posts.