Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:33     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

I guess there are other Feds that are not concerned with how much scrutiny they are facing wrt in-office time and whether you are taking sick leave, etc. We seem to have the eye of Sauron on us, and are concerned with DOGE-like twits finding cause to fire us. In this environment, we are all heavily leaning to coming in sick.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:30     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I get 3 weeks of PTO, so I'm absolutely going into the office.


if you are sick you need to take time off your manager could be notified and you written up as a health risk


DP. Lol my manager doesn’t care if I’m a health risk, just that the job gets done. Fed.


YOU should care if you spread your illness to other people. But you'd not have to be a petulant child first. You realize that those that you are infecting are your coworkers who are in the same boat as you, right? Not Trump.


Yeah well I like having a job, Nancy.


So does everyone else, Karen.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:29     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I get 3 weeks of PTO, so I'm absolutely going into the office.


if you are sick you need to take time off your manager could be notified and you written up as a health risk


DP. Lol my manager doesn’t care if I’m a health risk, just that the job gets done. Fed.


YOU should care if you spread your illness to other people. But you'd not have to be a petulant child first. You realize that those that you are infecting are your coworkers who are in the same boat as you, right? Not Trump.


Yeah well I like having a job, Nancy.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:27     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I get 3 weeks of PTO, so I'm absolutely going into the office.


if you are sick you need to take time off your manager could be notified and you written up as a health risk


DP. Lol my manager doesn’t care if I’m a health risk, just that the job gets done. Fed.


YOU should care if you spread your illness to other people. But you'd not have to be a petulant child first. You realize that those that you are infecting are your coworkers who are in the same boat as you, right? Not Trump.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:25     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I get 3 weeks of PTO, so I'm absolutely going into the office.


if you are sick you need to take time off your manager could be notified and you written up as a health risk


DP. Lol my manager doesn’t care if I’m a health risk, just that the job gets done. Fed.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:16     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Anonymous wrote:I am the OP. I took sick leave the first two days but cough is lingering and I feel guilty coughing in my cube but I guess that’s what we are doing now? Was wondering how everyone feels about this situation. To be clear, I want to work, I have a lot to do and feel fine otherwise.


It’s too bad you can’t get temporary WFH to avoid spreading a cold, ugh.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:16     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Anonymous wrote:I get 3 weeks of PTO, so I'm absolutely going into the office.


You're a child. Hope someone gets you sick when they do the same thing.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:15     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Anonymous wrote:I get 3 weeks of PTO, so I'm absolutely going into the office.


if you are sick you need to take time off your manager could be notified and you written up as a health risk
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:15     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this do not make my sympathetic to the fed workforce. This and all the threads about people with sudden new found disabilities.


Was just about to say the same thing. Grow up!!!
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:15     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

I just go into the office, period. We all got flu at the same time recently. Shrug.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:13     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Wear a mask.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 09:53     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

I get 3 weeks of PTO, so I'm absolutely going into the office.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 08:32     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

If I have the sick leave and want to take it, I will. But also, I would go in just to stick it to my boss who has enacted the arcane no telework policy. Some agencies are allowing ad hoc telework for situations just like this and if your agency isn’t then they can pay the price of listening to you hack and sniffle all day.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 07:49     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this do not make my sympathetic to the fed workforce. This and all the threads about people with sudden new found disabilities.


The fact that we are trying to be considerate to colleagues and also get our work done makes you mad at us? Ok.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 07:44     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?

Threads like this do not make my sympathetic to the fed workforce. This and all the threads about people with sudden new found disabilities.