Posted on 05/04/2024 3:44:58 AM PDT by Loyalist
Tanya King, a transgender and autistic public servant working for Public Services and Procurement Canada, said she is concerned about the possibility of having to spend more time in the office. PHOTO BY JEAN LEVAC /Postmedia
Some federal public servants are expressing frustration over the government’s reported plans to ask employees to work from their offices for three days a week starting in the fall, many taking to social media to express concerns about everything from commuting to finding childcare.
Tanya King, a transgender and autistic public servant working for Public Services and Procurement Canada, said she is concerned about the possibility of having to spend more time in the office, given that she has faced harassment and micro-aggressions from her coworkers.
“I’m very nervous about going back to the office,” said King, who has been working exclusively from home while waiting for the government to approve her request to work remotely, which she made following medical advice. “I’m worried that it will be a catch-all, they will want all of us to go in without considering it on a case-by-case basis.”
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King said she’s “not shocked” by the news but said the government should address issues with workers’ access to workspaces and equipment before sending them back to the office more often.
“I’ve definitely found myself dealing a lot with work pass issues, security, network issues, equipment issues, desks not having chairs,” said King.
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No doubt his co-workers would also prefer that he worked from home.
When you’re a psychological nut case, micro aggression should be the least of your concerns.
A mentally ill male…HE….. There, NOW it reads correctly.
I can’t imagine working from home. That would be so boring. I like being surrounded by people that I can talk to, take breaks with, go to lunch with. Work from home people must have a dismal life.
The under 45 set have been raised with 24/7 screens and have no social skills. They call them “shoe starers” especially Gen Z.
Federal bureaucrats working from home so they can do double duty with childcare.
What could go wrong? How many productive hours a week are we likely getting out of them? Then again, if what they are supposed to be doing is inherently counterproductive, are we maybe better off (other than for the still paying them part)?
Any productivity lost be doubling on child care, etc., is probably gained by reduced time wasted with office politics, gossiping and drama.
They won’t be able to sit in their underwear all day pretending to work while they spend hours on Facebook and shopping on Amazon. Bummer.....
Tell Tanya to get another Covid booster and to wear a mask. Everything will be safe then.
EC
Pretty sure TOM-ya has no childcare expenses unless he’s counting himself.
Certainly for many in the private sector, but bureaucrats?
Again, in many cases we may be better off without them getting work done.
I know a govt agency where it ran well, quite productive and efficient when it was under local control (the decision makers had offices in the building)...this not in DC.
Years later, a big DC “fish” swallowed this smaller, energetic and (for govt) quite effective agency and imposing top managers in DC, started “managing” it. The DC top managers seem to have a desire for newer shiny software packages, so DC mandated a move&shutdown of the smaller agency’s mainframe computer and forced a move to rent from the “cloud”. Without due diligence to see if the new rental mainframe (the “cloud”) was compatible with the smaller agencies software (it was not particularly compatible which messed up smaller agency projects), which never quite recovered. Relatively frequent software changes (out with the old, in with new shiny software!) without testing for compatibility in a small, isolated computer network, as the smaller agency had done, caused unnecessary heavy load on the agency’s technical help division, encouraging some of the most experienced to leave. Also, with the new software packages, the technical dept lacked knowledge on to help users having difficulty because the tech dept only knew how to install the new software packages, not how to problem solve incompatibilities or functional problems.
Then came covid, and the mandated covid “one size fits all” dosages, did not help...some of the most jabbed oddly enough had follow on health issues.
Next, since employees during covid, were allowed to work from home, and since the DC top mgt kicked employees out of their offices and mandated a form of “hot desking”, where one signed up for an office for the day but the computer equipment was removed, leaving only a desk, a chair and a phone, and the senior local managers were kicked out of their (highly desired) single offices into smaller shared “portacubicles”, morale dropped. Employees did not want to return to the local office building due to the lack of permanent offices and because those working from home, had home govt computer setups with PC (laptops replaced desktops) with multiple monitors, external keyboards, mice, speakers and a lot of wiring....which would have to be disassemble at home, loaded into a car, and re-assembled at whatever office the hot desking system allowed. And then disassembled and taken home at the end of the day because that day’s office was only for that day. A “homeless” type shopping cart needed to transport between vehicle and office (home and office building). A permanent office space (portacubicle) was only available if one committed to “full time presense” at the office building...and that in a less desirable and shared room...shared rooms being ok for the lower staff, but not for the local managers who desired their old single offices that allowed staff meetings.
The change from debugged, time testing software projects to forced conversion to new, untested “shiny objects” software continued to hurt productivity and employee morale.
Best one could tell, the top DC mgt was not in the habit of conferring with the local agency mgt as to impact of forced software changes.
Yes, "it" would be more in the "drama and gossip" disruption category.
That’s true. lol. No wonder majority are single.
Gee, I wonder how many applicants this person finished ahead of in order to get their current position.
How cruel and insensitive. Expecting someone to show up to their place of employment should be against the Constitution.
Panic over not being able to have their cake and eat it, too.
Time to grow up!
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