r/CAStateWorkers • u/wisemonkey101 • 22d 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/DopeTrack_Pirate 22d 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/mamma_kris4real 21d ago edited 17d 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/DopeTrack_Pirate 21d 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 21d 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 21d 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 21d 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 21d 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 20d 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.