{"id":37669,"date":"2022-07-19T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=37669"},"modified":"2022-07-19T19:18:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:18:56","slug":"300-virginia-state-workers-quit-because-they-cant-work-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=37669","title":{"rendered":"300 Virginia state workers quit because they can\u2019t work at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. One of the things the Great Panicdemic of 2020 and the resultant lockdown did was force a lot of people to work from home. Originally, this was meant to last only a couple of weeks to \u201cBend the Curve,\u201d but as we all know, the whole panicdemic thing was nothing more then a plot to \u201cGet Trump!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now that the Greatest President of the 21st<\/sup> Century, Donald Trump, is no longer in office, working from home is no longer desirable for those who manage workers. Now businesses are starting to tell their work force that it\u2019s time to return to the office.<\/p>\n

One of the employers that has only recently started telling people to come back to the office are the local and state governments. One of these states is Virginia. The governor has changed the policies and now state employees have to show up in the office. This has led several hundred to quit. Here are the details from ABC 8 News<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

More than 300 employees from five state agencies have resigned since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia\u2019s new telework policy in early May, according to records obtained by 8News. <\/b><\/p>\n

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This includes 183 Virginia Department of Transportation employees, 28 of whom cited \u201ctelework options\u201d as the reason for leaving. Two VDOT workers who listed telework as the reason did move to another state agency, records obtained by 8News after filing a Freedom of Information Act request show. <\/b><\/p>\n

The new Governor, Glenn Youngkin, made the decision that it was time for the state workers to start coming into the office. He gave everyone plenty of notice, announcing the policy change in May and then giving everyone a couple of months to get used to the idea.<\/p>\n

Youngkin said it would help \u201cbalance the demands of government services with the needs of our public servants.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

Well, one problem is that these \u201cPublic Servants,\u201d tend to think that this means that the public serves them, not the other way around.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately we\u2019re not surprised by this information,\u201d Dylan Bishop, a lobbyist for the Virginia Governmental Employees Association (VGEA), told 8News Friday. \u201cWe had anticipated that the shift in policy would result in an exodus of workers, which is really concerning because of the state\u2019s recruitment and retention issues.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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Now here is where the interesting question arises. How many of these precious little snowflakes are going to be replaced? According to the article, a few resigned because they found better jobs, (Which is fine, this happens all the time), some had an illness of some sort, a few had home responsibilities. Most quit because they would have to dress in business attire and not just sit around in shorts and a t-shirt.<\/p>\n

He said VGEA, a volunteer, nonpartisan organization that advocates for Virginia state employees, <\/b>surveyed its members<\/b><\/a><\/strong> and the results showed that some felt the policy was rushed, confusing and inefficient. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Rushed? That\u2019s pure manure. Confusing? What\u2019s so confusing about it? You are expected to show up in the office and put in a days work. You know, just like things worked before the Fauci Bioweapon was released on the world. As for inefficient? I\u2019ll argue that any day.<\/p>\n

In May, eight Democratic Virginia lawmakers called on the governor to delay\u00a0<\/b>the state\u2019s new telework policy<\/b><\/a><\/strong>, urging him to allow state agency heads to work with their employees on the return to their pre-pandemic work schedules after the Labor Day holiday and create an interagency work group to examine the current policy and share recommended changes. <\/b><\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s office did not grant the delay but did make adjustments, allowing state employees without alternatives for child care to request temporary telework agreements through Sept. 5 to work remotely up to five days a week. Youngkin\u2019s administration agreed to grant accommodations to state workers under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). <\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not at all surprised that the Democrats demanded that the Governor delay the new policy, (Which is just a return to the status quo) They would just as soon never go into the state capitol building themselves since they might actually have to meet with and talk to their constituents.<\/p>\n

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Now for me. I have a \u201cReal World Job\u201d and had to work from home for 2 long, lonely years. I hated it. The Anger Central Home Office is fine for things like surfing the web or doing blog posts, but I do not have the space to set up a couple of extra monitors, a replicator port, keyboard and laptop. I had to use my real world job issued laptop\u2019s built in keyboard and monitor, and connect in using a not wholly reliable VPN connection.<\/p>\n

I also do a lot of data transfers, and while in the office, this wasn\u2019t an issue. Since I was forced to use my own internet connection, I had to figure out other ways to do what needed to be done. As soon as the \u201cAll clear\u201d was sent out, I was back in my Real World Job\u2019s office in my comfortable cube with plenty of desk space.<\/p>\n

I was also able to work a lot more efficiently, and with the few others from different teams who also came in, I was able to walk over and talk to them when there were issues. Considering the nature of my Real World Job, it\u2019s sometimes far easier to talk to someone on a different team for a few minutes, and have them look over my shoulder, then it is to try and reach them on Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n

There is also the \u201cHuman Contact\u201d we have all been missing. Simply being able to take a couple of minutes to just chat with people and find out what is happening in the company is incredibly helpful. During the lockdown, I was constantly getting blindsided by things that, had I been in the office and listing, would have been aware of and get ready for.<\/p>\n

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Finally, there is the costs. The Anger Central Primary Dwelling is about 15 minutes drive from my Real World Job. Working from home, especially with the costs of energy thanks to that incompetent, senile SCoaMF, Joe Biden, was costing me a lot of money. When I go into the office, the Primary Dwelling is empty, so I can turn the heat down in the winter and leave the air conditioning off in the summer. I have only one thing to say to all those who quit their jobs because they can\u2019t work from home.<\/p>\n