Scoop: Biden pushes to end remote work era for feds

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19. I swear, it's a generational thing...

The generation before mine (as well as many IN my generation) can't wrap their heads around remote work=more productive work. They think if your butt isn't in a seat they can see, then you're goofing off. And it doesn't make any difference how much or what you do to prove the opposite to them. They weren't raised in WFH managerial environment, and damn it... they know better than everybody else.

Note: I do have a dog in this game. I was forced into early retirement because my department head at DoD wouldn't get behind me WFH 2 days a week. This was due to my fibromyalgia and was supported and annotated by my rheumatologist. I finally had to give up fighting because the stress was making my condition so much worse. EVERY bit of work I did at that office was accomplished on a WiFi connection. And could only be done that way. It didn't make any difference where my butt was sitting, I was still going to have to use WiFi.

Two years later, *everybody* in that office was working from home due to Covid. I have never gotten over it, and I don't know how to get over the bitterness I feel about it. I wasn't ready to retire, loved my work and my clients (who were all in remote bases across the world). Even the Help Desk support I gave them was on WiFi, of course. (sigh)...

But this dept head idiot actually made the "butt in the office chair" statement. He's now retired, himself. I wish him the worst that retirement can offer him.

Until this country turns its face to the 21st century and beyond, workers will never be more than wage slaves... and now, it seems like it doesn't make any difference which party has the big chair. What a disappointment.