The federal worker considered that RTO had been precipitated, does not work with anyone in person

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My agency announced the return to the office.

I expected it, so it was not so bad. But crying the work at a distance took a few days – and the sorrow is non -linear, so it came and came and came and came. When I thought I had overwhelmed too much on this subject, he returned.

I was fully expecting to be assigned to the city center of Chicago in the district office, but instead, I received an email at 10 am on Wednesday evening with the order to run on Monday in a place that I had never heard.

I said to myself: “What is this place?” I thought I saw the full list of available places they could attribute to me. It came out of the left field, and it was a shock.

I was surprised by the office to which I was affected

I had sought in the resources of my agency’s facilities, and they have these nice occupants guides who tell you everything you need to know about each of their facilities. They didn’t have one for this office. There was hardly nothing about this on my agency’s internal website.

This area is home to many industrial parks. There are residents who live there, but it is largely office parks and factories. The only time I was here before was to pick up something in a UPS center.

The nearest place for lunch is the best part of half a mile on the road to your choice of Mexican restaurants. No shade, I love Mexican – it’s my non -steak cuisine and favorite potatoes.

Anyway, I introduced myself there on Monday and I am in a room with 10 other people who have terminated their distant agreements. There were people who worked at the Chicago district office, there were people who have been away for more than 10 years, and there were me.

When we arrived here, they had not eliminated the offices for us and they had not moved the staff in other offices. They had to move people to welcome us because this installation is simply not built, however, I suppose.

The RTO process felt a little hasty and nasty

The speed of the return was, I mean, intentional cruelty.

However, the staff who manage the facilities has done their best to minimize the impact of this cruelty.

The people who made the decisions and the calendar on the return to the office had almost no consideration for the space and the administrative services which really manage the facilities. These people made heroic lifting trying to make it all work. They should not have had to move mountains on the calendar they made.

Part of this was in accordance with the quote from Russell Vought to terrorize us as a federal employee. It is one thing for a deprived of wanting to terrorize us. This is another for the director of the management and budget office to do so.

My journey is delicate – it’s 42 stops if I take public transport

Going here by public transport is very complicated. I haven’t done it yet; I did a tour of my wife.

I’m going to be bus when she returns to work, but fortunately for me, she will not work at the moment.

He is six miles from my office, then she has eight miles from her work – but everything is an rush hour in the streets of the city. It is about 25 minutes to arrive at my office if we leave early. This will take what was its 40 -minute journey and do it for more than an hour.

At my office, it would be 42 stops on a bus, then a walk from Milles and a quarter that involves passing under a lower passage from the highway. This is not the best walk.

In an ideal world, you can do it in an hour and five minutes. In the real world, I don’t even know. If you miss one of the long buses, it’s an additional 23 minutes while you wait for the next bus.

Going to the downtown office would have taken about 45 minutes – nine stops on the train. You miss a train from the Chicago Transit Authority, and it’s only five to seven minutes additional during rush hours. This is not a big problem.

It is $ 4 per day to take public transport, paid by the taxpayer due to the provisions of the Clean Air Incitations Act. Although it is always intact, federal employees undergo subsidies if they take public transport.

If I was driving, the maintenance of the car, the gas and the total cost and the damping would be on me. However, if I was here in the long term and I knew that I had a certainty in my work, I would buy a second car.

I don’t work with anyone else in the office

People who were assigned to a conference room for a few days while we have settled things.

We were all a little gobcken to be there. We are 10 hikes thrown together from random divisions in a company.

None of us work together. None of us are of the same division. None of us has something else other than the locality and having been distant.

There is almost no synergistic advantage for the American taxpayer or the government to make us park here in addition to the regular staff already parked here.

We are a bunch of spreadsheet monkeys that might be careful tips in Excel. Otherwise, there is no knowledge transfer. There is no collaboration. We are not like a normal office because people would understand it.

Most people I work with are in Maryland.

When people go back to the office, even in a large company that may have 10 sites or something, people who are thrown into the office generally work together. They generally sit together and may have lunch together.

This is not what is happening here.

They are people of disparate games of a large agency thrown together in the nearest installation, regardless of what they do. There is no synergy search in the return to the office, at least of my experience.

We commission. We do our best to support each other.

It was something that I thought I was getting back to work in general – that people would find other people, we would have a solidarity and mutual support, and we would be there for what I call a good water cooler session.

Even if we do not have a water cooler, we can always support and discuss. This is something that helps morale and helps you spend the day.