Letters to the editor: Just get to work (at the office)

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JUST GET TO WORK (AT THE OFFICE)

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Re: Public servants will be required to work in office three days a week by September, online, May 1

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What is it about the employer/employee relationship that some federal government staff don’t seem to grasp? Your employer hired you pre-pandemic with the stipulation of a standard five-day work week. During COVID-19, major changes were made to work schedules to accommodate a work-around to the apparent benefit of both groups.

Post-pandemic, the government, your boss, requires a return to a hybrid work plan. Not a full five days. Again, the feds are the employer. If you don’t agree or refuse to adhere to their plan, seek employment elsewhere. Simple. And it’s a three-day office work week. Not five. One … extra … day.

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Just imagine pulling this “I do what I want” stunt in the private sector. You’d be shown the door in a heartbeat. Do the job for which you were hired.

GARY CROSS

OTTAWA

THOSE POOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

So the whiny, spoon-fed government employees are not happy because they will actually have to show up for work. Poor them, they’ll have to commute and pay child care, among other things. I’m sick of their constant complaining, sense of entitlement and playing the victim. If they don’t want to show up for work, they should be fired. End of story. Many of them will not even be missed.

GISELE LAVICTOIRE

ORLÉANS

WHO’S THE BOSS?

So the unions are upset because they have to go back to work in the office for three days a week. I have a solution: fire anyone who refuses and replace them with non-union workers. There are millions of people who would love to be working for the government with all the pay and benefits and would gladly show up at the office for only three days a week.

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Who’s the boss here? The government or the employees? Working from home isn’t a benefit, it was a luxury, and now it’s time to go to work as you were hired to do. If not for COVID, this would be a non-issue. They complain they will have to start finding ways to get to work and daycare, etc. Well, welcome to the real world like the rest of us. Unbelievable.

RENE KLABOUCH

KEMPTVILLE

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