Sadly, your telework agreement is way more generous than other VISNs.
Our site is still largely functioning as hybrid telework for psychologists supposedly due to spacing, but it's a ghost town every day I'm there. We have several psychologists working fully remote who were not hired as remote but moved away. We have newer staff who aren't allowed hybrid any more and are fully RTO since April. Management says that was decided by big VA based on number of virtual appointments or something like that. Our psychologists who are fully remote due to work arounds (combinations of accommodations and management getting their positions reclassified as remote) have complained a bit about no longer getting our local SSR and having to get the SSR of the VA hospital system of their actual physical location, but the reality is they aren't entitled to remote work and they were being paid more than they should have been to be fully remote at their preferred location. There is an undercurrent of resentment/frustration here about legitimate unfair treatment across different psychologists who have similar functions (e.g., outpatient general mental health and specialty clinics). I think management is right to advocate for their people, who knows when positions will actually get backfilled if our remote workers leave. It is a little harder to like some of my colleagues who are getting advantages I don't get and then whining about their lot (e.g., slightly reduced SSR, difficulties with patients connecting to VVC) when they don't have a commute and literally have to put in less effort to do the same job while other VA systems are not giving their psychologists the same level of leeway. None of us are entitled to anything at this point, not even relative job security, and it is important to keep that in perspective.
This actually sounds credible (and typical).
It was such a cute game! I have been doing Stardew Valley again as things have gotten dystopian.
You should try Rimworld, then, lol. It's been described as a 'war crime / atrocity generator.' Very much in keeping with current events/stressors. It's sort of like "Sims in space" (colony building) with assault rifles, starvation, organ harvesting, and molotov cocktails.
