Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 13:01     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:RTO has been great on productivity though. People can’t just hide out in Zoomland as easily. People can see the files stacking up. Everyone knows who’s cranking out stuff.
+1 From a supervisor level, RTO has been terrific. With WFH, employees were hard to track down with all their dog walks, gym breaks, grocery runs, household chores, and kid activities. The work is starting to move again.


Troll. Surely you don't mean federal work?? Nothing is moving at all. How could it? Most agencies have lost at least 30% of their employees. Everything now is at a snails pace and everyone has extra workloads.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 13:00     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:The only folks complaining about RTO:

- Left the area post COVID (thinking 100% remote)

- Abused WFH and became lazy



None of my kids were elementary aged before covid. When choosing aftercares for them, I chose based on their preferences, not what daycare ones were available that let me leave my kids there all night until 6:30pm. Surely that's obvious? Most parents were able to pickup at 4pm before (I used to work 7-3:30).

Surely your life, activities, and family has changed in 5 years?
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:56     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Here comes the....I suffered, so you have to suffer too posters!
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:52     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:RTO has been great on productivity though. People can’t just hide out in Zoomland as easily. People can see the files stacking up. Everyone knows who’s cranking out stuff.
+1 From a supervisor level, RTO has been terrific. With WFH, employees were hard to track down with all their dog walks, gym breaks, grocery runs, household chores, and kid activities. The work is starting to move again.


You should probably be fired as a supervisor if you are too lazy or stupid to track and discipline people that weren't doing their work the last few years.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:50     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
The only folks complaining about RTO:

- Left the area post COVID (thinking 100% remote)

- Abused WFH and became lazy

Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:42     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:RTO has been great on productivity though. People can’t just hide out in Zoomland as easily. People can see the files stacking up. Everyone knows who’s cranking out stuff.
+1 From a supervisor level, RTO has been terrific. With WFH, employees were hard to track down with all their dog walks, gym breaks, grocery runs, household chores, and kid activities. The work is starting to move again.
Yes, lots of cheaters and short-changers. More accountability is needed across the board.


People can sit in their office and do nothing same as sitting at home doing nothing.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:42     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
well, got covid again. thanks RTO! not going to do any more in-person meetings and will just wear a mask in the office i guess. i can't afford brain damage, i'm the primary wage earner.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:36     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:RTO has been great on productivity though. People can’t just hide out in Zoomland as easily. People can see the files stacking up. Everyone knows who’s cranking out stuff.
+1 From a supervisor level, RTO has been terrific. With WFH, employees were hard to track down with all their dog walks, gym breaks, grocery runs, household chores, and kid activities. The work is starting to move again.
Yes, lots of cheaters and short-changers. More accountability is needed across the board.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:31     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's killing me is the lack of flexibility. My kids just can't stop getting sick. They're old enough that they could nap/watch TV (they're lethargic while sick) and I could telework.

Instead, I'm just taking full days of leave. Work is piled sky high at work due to this and also because so many people quit. Unsustainable.


Man Up. My Mom had a job, my wife's mom had a job. We went to school sick all the time. I dont recall a single time my Mom or Dad took off cause I was sick.

I do recall once the nurse called my Mom at work and said there is a problem as I am sick, my Mom said sounds like your problem.


No school is OK with this in 2025.


+1. Fever over 100 degrees and they have to go home.


Ooh I can beat that- my kid gets sent home regularly for bloody noses! Principal and I had it out about this too. It only seems to be happening at school so I think their environment is too dry. DD is also not allowed to stay in class even with a nose plug in. So she sits in the nurses office multiple times a day. If it runs over 30 min I have to pick her up.

Clearly we're doing everything we can to help her nose, but the ped won't cauterize. We have tons of humidifiers at home, nose spray every 2 hours.


you need to get lfts drawn for your kid. just as a precaution.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:28     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:RTO has been great on productivity though. People can’t just hide out in Zoomland as easily. People can see the files stacking up. Everyone knows who’s cranking out stuff.
+1 From a supervisor level, RTO has been terrific. With WFH, employees were hard to track down with all their dog walks, gym breaks, grocery runs, household chores, and kid activities. The work is starting to move again.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:28     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:Private companies are rto too. It’s killing us. Spouse is looking for a closer job. Hour there, two hours home.


We moved closer, too. Sad to leave our old neighborhood and pay more for housing but it will be worth it.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:24     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's killing me is the lack of flexibility. My kids just can't stop getting sick. They're old enough that they could nap/watch TV (they're lethargic while sick) and I could telework.

Instead, I'm just taking full days of leave. Work is piled sky high at work due to this and also because so many people quit. Unsustainable.


Man Up. My Mom had a job, my wife's mom had a job. We went to school sick all the time. I dont recall a single time my Mom or Dad took off cause I was sick.

I do recall once the nurse called my Mom at work and said there is a problem as I am sick, my Mom said sounds like your problem.


No school is OK with this in 2025.


+1. Fever over 100 degrees and they have to go home.


Ooh I can beat that- my kid gets sent home regularly for bloody noses! Principal and I had it out about this too. It only seems to be happening at school so I think their environment is too dry. DD is also not allowed to stay in class even with a nose plug in. So she sits in the nurses office multiple times a day. If it runs over 30 min I have to pick her up.

Clearly we're doing everything we can to help her nose, but the ped won't cauterize. We have tons of humidifiers at home, nose spray every 2 hours.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:20     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Anonymous wrote:RTO has been great on productivity though. People can’t just hide out in Zoomland as easily. People can see the files stacking up. Everyone knows who’s cranking out stuff.


Disagree. Everyone is just on leave nonstop because they can't telework around appts or sicknesses.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:18     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Troll or not, I agree. Traffic is what will ultimately send me over the edge to retire. It is awful. It took me two hours to get into dc from Gaithersburg this morning. It doesn’t help that once you get in the city police routinely have streets shutdown so you have to take alternate routes adding to the length of the commute.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 12:15     Subject: Five weeks in. RTO is literally killing me!
Yes, it sucks. But it is what it is! I go to bed with my kids and it seems to help with the exhaustion. I'd look into playing around with your night-morning schedule - it may help. For now, this is just what it will be so best to figure out how to work in the box.

Though I totally empathize with you and understand.