Anonymous wrote:Rto isn’t sustainable, it’s the past.

True.

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Interesting how Feds accrued so much leave over the past few years. I wonder why they didn’t they take much leave but now suddenly need to.

For myself, I can't flex my schedule and I have to get my son to an activity at 6pm. So on days that I have to drive the carpool, with an hour commute, I need to use an hour of leave. It's only once every other week, my husband and I alternate driving it, but it adds up.

This is why you need to find a private sector job.

In most private sector jobs, there is way less “you must work 40 hours.” It’s completely normal to leave an hour or two early once a week because your child has an event. A private sector manager would find it bizarre to receive a request to take one hour of leave.

It’s as if the only thing that matters in the public sector is sitting at your desk 40 hours a week.

Interesting how Feds accrued so much leave over the past few years. I wonder why they didn’t they take much leave but now suddenly need to.

For myself, I can't flex my schedule and I have to get my son to an activity at 6pm. So on days that I have to drive the carpool, with an hour commute, I need to use an hour of leave. It's only once every other week, my husband and I alternate driving it, but it adds up.

OP, RTO is making the federal workforce less productive.

I now work less every day than before and many people are in the same boat.

We spend hours a day to go use our laptops somewhere other than our home. If you haven’t worked in recent years or work for a small company/blue collar work, I can see how you might not understand that most work now is performed via a laptop. Even when you go into the office, you need to conduct a meeting online for the participants who are located in other offices.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how Feds accrued so much leave over the past few years. I wonder why they didn’t they take much leave but now suddenly need to.

Are you a troll?

I’ll answer your question seriously.

First off, telework had been allowed at my agency since the mid-2000s.

Since I could close my laptop at 5, I could easily make it to pickups and have enough time with my kids during the evenings. I felt less of a need to take leave since I had the 4 hours a day I am now using to commute.

I also didn’t take vacations during early COVID since most people weren’t traveling. I saved up leave that way.

A lot of people I know are burning leave to survive over the next few years.

For example, I’m taking a day off a week the remainder of this year.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people are using their use it or loose it time this summer. Banking leave is over.

+1. I’m burning leave because I’m planning to resign anyway, and would rather have the time than cash it out.

Same. Looking at 194 use or lose plus carryover that I don't want cashed out.

Anonymous wrote:I’m kind of angry at this guy because I love the drop off/pick up line. You can’t achieve anything and there’s no danger. Just get zen and look out the window. Play music that makes it look like a movie about summer camp.

Pickup line has always made me anxious and grumpy, but I'm going to try this technique going forward. Thank you!

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how Feds accrued so much leave over the past few years. I wonder why they didn’t they take much leave but now suddenly need to.

Because with telework you start work early (6 am or so) and work until 6, and sometimes after dinner. Now all that extra time is spent commuting. The loss of productivity is real.

I can't WFH, I work in the medical field so my job will always be in person. Even in blizzard/hurricane/whatever conditions I've had to sleep at the hospital because I am expected to be at work.

I will never understand the absolute vitriol about WFH/RTO. You realize most of you sound like immature idiots right? So you're jealous some people have a better work/life balance or work schedule than you. Ok, change jobs instead of attacking them. So someone makes a snide remark about you working from home? Ignore it instead of making some snide comeback.

Seriously this forum is supposed to be composed of mature adults and it's like a middle school schoolyard in here with the maturity level.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how Feds accrued so much leave over the past few years. I wonder why they didn’t they take much leave but now suddenly need to.

Because with telework, I could continue to work until midnight every night after I put my kids to bed so I could finish my tour of duty, so I didn’t need to take leave. I could work when I was sick. I could work from my mother’s bedside when she was dying and rarely conscious for her last several weeks.

[insert personal attack on your character, poster, of your choice here - you seem nasty enough and I don’t have the energy anymore]

My Mother said I would not want to raise children with poor work ethic and told me to go to work when she was dying. Unfair to your boss and company and I am dying anyhow. She even hoped not to die during work or school day. Which she was nice enough to die at a convenient time.

Is this a real post? This is actually pretty sad

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how Feds accrued so much leave over the past few years. I wonder why they didn’t they take much leave but now suddenly need to.

Because with telework, I could continue to work until midnight every night after I put my kids to bed so I could finish my tour of duty, so I didn’t need to take leave. I could work when I was sick. I could work from my mother’s bedside when she was dying and rarely conscious for her last several weeks.

[insert personal attack on your character, poster, of your choice here - you seem nasty enough and I don’t have the energy anymore]

My Mother said I would not want to raise children with poor work ethic and told me to go to work when she was dying. Unfair to your boss and company and I am dying anyhow. She even hoped not to die during work or school day. Which she was nice enough to die at a convenient time.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how Feds accrued so much leave over the past few years. I wonder why they didn’t they take much leave but now suddenly need to.

Dumbass, it’s because they allowed us to work the hours at night, at home.

My old boss said once I find it funny you took a job in a building that did not move but now it is further away.

The building did not move you did. My building is actually in a suburban town close to DC with amazing schools and a metro.

We have people at work who live one hour away who moved after taking job complaining about commute. Why they wanted a huge house on a huge plot and by office would get you a smaller house with a smaller plot.

Then they also complain about tolls, gas, traffic every day.

Covid just made it worse. My prior company is still remote as CEO moved full time to his beach house in NJ, the COO is in his Delaware Beach house and another C level person moved to to a Florida to avoid state taxes. But really will that last forever? All three of those C level people are early 60s and milking it as would have just retired if forced back.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how Feds accrued so much leave over the past few years. I wonder why they didn’t they take much leave but now suddenly need to.

It really is amazing

Or to be able to work form 6 to 2:30

Bet the first 3 hours are reading dcum.