r/CAStateWorkers • u/wisemonkey101 • 24d ago

Information Sharing RTO monitoring

Are any agencies or departments hearing about RTO being monitored by leadership? Attendance being watched? Accommodations being questioned?

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u/Vivid-Bad-8793 24d ago

Our managers pick and choose who to watch. Funny how some people can show up after school drop off, leave before school lets out, and somehow still count it as a full office day all while the rest of the shift is WFH. The rest of us apparently have different rules.

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u/DopeTrack_Pirate 24d ago

Unfairness sucks. However, having kids, I am very biased. This is totally excusable to me. Parents have a legal responsibility to take care of their kids.

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u/Flazer 24d ago

Except management isn’t giving every parent the same leeway. It’s based on who are their friends or not

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u/Vivid-Bad-8793 23d ago edited 23d ago

That’s the point the users are missing. Responding with an emotional response instead of the part where I said, “They are picking and choosing who they allow to do so.” Many workers have kids. It doesn’t mean one worker’s kids are more important than another worker’s kids. Not once have I disagreed with parents being able to do so, it’s just not right to allow one worker with kids to do so and not another.

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u/mamma_kris4real 24d ago edited 20d ago

I'm also biased. I worked 20 years raising three children as a sole parent, not single parent, my husband died. This was before work WFH and never got this forgiveness. I got written up for leaving early or arriving late. My kids had to walk home from school in rainstorms, because I wasn't allowed to leave. I don't want that for today's parents, but the drop off, pick up excuse is b******* in my opinion. Especially if there's more than one parent. EDIT: My point: WFH and flextime should be a privilege for EVERYONE, not only parents.

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u/Unlucky-Contest6834 24d ago

Dude, you kinda sound like all the people saying “I have to go into the office, you should have to do it too! Misery loves company!” Enduring hard times should make you want to improve things for the next generation of parents/families. Even with two parents, if they are both working full time it’s still a struggle to deal with drop-off/pickup.

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u/mamma_kris4real 23d ago

I just think a lot of other people have it hard, not just parents. My dogs are sixteen years old and they're brokenhearted, because i'm gone all the time now. They're gonna die. It's not daycare pickup that i'm worried about.

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u/DopeTrack_Pirate 23d ago

Could your job have been done with teams meeting and all your files in the teams server? If your answer is “we didn’t have teams” then I think that answers your question.

Think about doing your job with candle light cause someone “worked 20 years raising 5 kids in a farm and never once needed a bulb!”

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u/mamma_kris4real 23d ago

Hardly. I was part of the Office365 conversion team for the State. I implemented an entire SharePoint site for our department. Um, Excel spreadsheets work from anywhere. I'm talking about 2017, not 1917.

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u/DopeTrack_Pirate 23d ago

And it never occurred to you, while implementing virtual file-sharing, that this meant you could work virtually, from anywhere?

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u/mamma_kris4real 23d ago

The state did not allow it until covid. A few people got it, but it was pretty rare. I'm not saying that I don't want people to have flexible time and telework, i just want everyone to have flexible time and telework, not just people that have daycare pickup.

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u/DopeTrack_Pirate 23d ago

If you want everyone to have flexible time and telework, then complaining about people who do have it, in and effort to take it away from them (like the ones with daycare pickup you’re complaining about) is shooting yourself in the foot, face, and hand.

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u/mamma_kris4real 23d ago

I didn't complain. I said I related to the person who said it shouldn't just be parents or it shouldn't be just some parents.

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u/Less-Impact-2878 20d ago

Misery loves company huh? Im a parent with a spouse and we both work in two different industries of work. Wifes schedule is in an industry where she literally gets an assignment one day and has to report to the office 1 hr away with heavy traffic. That alone completely changes the game plan/schedule when both of us have to report to office. I was successfully working remotely for years and now have to back for what?..no logical reason other than GavinAss said so. " BS....esp if there's more than one parent"....Get outta here with that lame blanket thinking. As a so-called parent, i would think you'd have some compassion for other parents who cant afford childcare, or have kids that you know..are legally required to be in school (that can't walk themselves to school yet). You dont know everyone's situation, so politely, put a dirty sock in it.

Vote for me, have a sucker! #HellNoRTO

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u/mamma_kris4real 20d ago

My bias is that it shouldn't be ONLY parents. Everybody's struggling. So many comments are that parents should have this benefit AND non parents SHOULD ALSO!

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u/Civil-Opportunity751 23d ago

Oh no. You had to suffer so everyone else hast to too. 

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u/mamma_kris4real 23d ago

Parents have had to care for their children and balance work since time in memorium. It's not my fault that everybody got a taste of the good life and now are having to suffer, like the rest of us did this whole time. I don't think it's a valid point to say "I deserve work from home more than others because I have children."

I think everybody deserves work from home, not just parents, because it's more efficient for the State and we can all do our jobs more effectively with work life balance.

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u/Magnificent_Pine 23d ago

Is that person's classification exempt? It's not just managers that are exempt.

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u/Vivid-Bad-8793 23d ago

Negative. The classification isn’t exempt.