My agency is now on the verge of banning Mondays and Fridays for a RDO/AWS day off because they are saying they want 80% office coverage.
80% office coverage is the goal, they are also being told to heavily scrutinized people taking leave on Mondays and Fridays.
Are we tired of winning yet?
my agency is now on the verge of banning Mondays and Fridays for a RDO/AWS day off because they are saying they want 80% office coverage.
80% office coverage is the goal, they are also being told to heavily scrutinized people taking leave on Mondays and Fridays.
Are we tired of winning yet?
Lately a lot of companies and federal agencies are all in on RTO, like its some sort of virus going around and companies are quickly trying to claw back any semblance of work life balance we once had, despite our data-backed production and improved morale.
There's clearly a unified push behind the scenes, but I never assumed who was part of that push. I always assumed it was the landlords, the share holders, or senior leadership who couldn't figure out how to run a company they didn't physically see or have under their thumb, but I never guessed it was also the restaurants and bars.
"Among others, the DC-based Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) actively lobbied to bring federal employees back to their offices in Washington, D.C.. This effort is driven by significant declines in foot traffic and sales following the shift to remote work, which hit a critical point in 2025."
So basically because they weren't making as much money, they pushed to bring us back into the office so we would spend money at their over-priced shit hole establishments.
Fuck our morale, fuck what we wanted, fuck our families and work life balance... THEIR overpriced eatery needs more sales!
Time to aggressively start packing your lunches and refusing to put money in their pockets. The best revenge would be to watch them go out of business even with us back in the office.
Fuck these people. Fuck their businesses.
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Additional:
The deaths notwithstanding, which were a tragedy.
But when I look back on COVID, compared to today, the COVID times almost seemed better.
We had telework. Under Biden the agencies had decent leadership. Interest rates were low.
Yea masks sucked, but all in all, compared to today… just feels like times are even worse and there’s no a global pandemic to blame for it.
I don’t know… am I crazy for feeling this way?
And I only post this because I was sitting here in the office, following RTO, on Friday looking out the window at a sunny day, and we were talking about the new hantavirus, and I just thought “damn my life was better under COVID…”