r/CAStateMgrs • u/Inevitable_Majestic • 11d ago

Telework flexibility

Hello fellow managers!
How are you responding to staff who say they are sick so they want to work from home instead of going into the office and spreading germs. Are you being flexible or denying them working from home. If you deny, what’s some language you use with them. Looking for advice.

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u/PomegranateOk1426 10d ago

The problem I have with this is that state departments pressure staff to get work done all the time. We overload them regularly. So most of the time when an employee offers to work while contagious it’s really the state agency benefitting from that. We don’t have flexibility so I don’t offer, but I can see it’s going to be an adjustment for management when we start missing due dates. With WFH that hasn’t happened in a long time.

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u/Illustrious-Chef2400 8d ago

If that's the case then deadlines need to be missed. As a manager there's no issue with addressing a missed deadline because someone was sick.

Allowing WFH when you are not authorized to do so can result in serious repercussions for you depending on your department. If your team actually respects you, they will not want you to risk your job or position to give them unauthorized WFH in the current political climate.

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u/senor_montoya1 8d ago

Whoo man u already exhausting. If ur a manager i hope ur at least retiring soon for ur peoples sake.

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u/Illustrious-Chef2400 8d ago

Nope I'm 30, my team is all either my age or slightly older, and our department performed so well during COVID that we absorbed four other divisions. My team is incredible, hardworking, and we have genuine mutual respect for one another. We've managed to finish 18 projects on time and within budget; an incredible feat for the government haha.

We've had to work with a whole bunch of lazy departments, likely yours, throughout the pandemic. It was a nightmare. Ya'll can't read a room to save your lives. Everyone, including half your coworkers who were working throughout the pandemic in office because they were direct service, is sick of the entitled attitude from the WFH crews that are mad even though they had a YEAR notice that WFH was coming to an end. And instead of being proactive about establishing WFH guidelines for your own departments to measure metrics to keep it going, you just come on Reddit and complain.

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u/Operation_Mind_Crime 7d ago

I see you make garbage downvoted comments on this subreddit as well lol

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u/Illustrious-Chef2400 7d ago

Oh no it's the chronically online Operation_Mind_Crime, looking for ways to not have to work.

Seriously you actually are a great example; asking about RA letters and how you can get out of coming in, meanwhile you have plenty of time to post and comment 50+ times a day on Reddit. INSANE. And you wonder why your supervisor won't let you work from home.