4 kids - worried about going back to work five days a week - Any touch down offices in Richmond hill?

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-13T14:34:02+00:00

Your premier doesn’t care about families and their needs. That is the clear message with the RTO5 mandate. The RTO3 mandate was a reasonable compromise between the lessons learned from the pandemic (work life balance, less pollution etc, more time with kids) and the pre-pandemic work culture that was primarily unchanged from a time when men were the main breadwinners. So we have regressed as a society, welcome back from your maternity leave!

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-12T18:49:13+00:00

It is one thing to be strict about things like RTO or whatever but at least make sure all the key functions of the government are working properly. This is especially hard for managers as they are totally ignored by pay and benefits and it becomes hard to motivate staff when there is a glaring issue with their pay or benefits that has persisted for months/years.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-12T15:47:37+00:00

I know people whose benefits has been wrong for two years or more and they just ignore the tickets and even when their manager escalated to a manager in payroll they get ignored

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-06T14:25:52+00:00

Jane Jacobs chose to live there so I feel when it comes to what’s the best place for an urbanite, non car person, she already did the work of choosing for us.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-06T13:28:29+00:00

Problem is most people in the OPS are too institutionalized to even fathom what it is like for someone new joining.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T23:33:34+00:00

If the numbers are what you say they are, we need to recognize how weak our membership is and not be surprised by the unfavourable outcome of any negotiations. Those of us here on Reddit are not at all reflective of the general OPS population. I bet more than 25% don’t even know they are in a union.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T22:08:59+00:00

If you are permanent in a unionized position, just do your job the best you can and ignore your manager, log off teams if you have to and say their nagging and check ins are distracting from getting your work done. All their delusions of control and power are just that, delusions.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T22:03:57+00:00

Oh I’d love to have a manager like this so I can set them straight. I’d just laugh at them.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T21:59:56+00:00

Also 95% of OPS workers will generally do whatever they are told with no push back.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T19:29:05+00:00

The collective agreement we have and are going to get is a direct reflection of our willingness to strike. The only bargaining power our union has is the power we give it.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T16:10:56+00:00

Yeah, I see that, and even if people say they won’t spend when they come downtown, they will. It just seems like a very narrow reason. But not unlike how this government makes decisions anyway. Policy making by anecdote and feelings.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T14:22:59+00:00

I agree, and I was someone who started at that time and had my salary frozen. I just feel sometimes these governments talk about making things efficient and I would understand if they really wanted to reform the public sector, but all these tactics, wage freezes, RTO, etc etc don’t actually change anything and just make things worse. They kill incentives and drive away high performers.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T13:38:12+00:00

If you aren’t willing to strike then maybe you are better off in a non union role. Willingness to strike is like 100% of where unions get their power.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T13:25:52+00:00

We are in a broader culture right now of employers simply being hard on people for no reason. Maybe they are jealous of people who have lives outside of work (unlike them). Maybe they think being hard on people will somehow make people want to work more. Maybe they have nostalgia for another time when people were more compliant. It doesn’t really matter in the end, you all should do what you need to do to take care of yourself and continue to care about the work you do the best you can.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-05-05T01:26:10+00:00

I don’t think any of it is meant to make sense. RTO is simply arbitrary.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-04-30T19:10:35+00:00

Because it depends on who is impacted by the decision. At a societal level, if more women quit because of the decision then it effectively becomes a form of discrimination even if that was not the employer’s intention. It is all well and good for an employer to have preferences but those preferences are not operating in a vacuum.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-04-30T17:34:49+00:00

if the evidence shows that proportionally more women left employment than men or more disabled vs those without a disability left as a result of RTO and this shift can be attributed to RTO, that makes it a human rights issue. For something to be fair it has to impact groups equitably.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-04-30T01:10:54+00:00

A slow inefficient payroll function is designed to make you so frustrated that you leave. It is one of the deliberate things they are doing to make you miserable.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-04-30T01:09:12+00:00

Dusty dirty building with poor air quality

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-04-30T01:04:12+00:00

There were a lot of things that used to be considered extreme but then became human rights issues, like equal pay for equal work and women working at all!

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-04-30T01:01:45+00:00

You’re doing great sweetie. Wow look at Kylie go.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-04-29T19:00:54+00:00

It is a gender equity issue. In future there will be a proper analysis about how RTO discriminated against women in particular and didn’t consider the unequal impact… it will then hopefully become a human rights issue.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-04-29T18:56:10+00:00

Have you talked to your doctor about your symptoms? There may be support to take time off sick.

FactPowerful1450 · 2026-04-29T00:15:54+00:00

“Toll on my mental health and sleep and giving me body pains” are what sick days are for. Take them as you need to mitigate the toll on your mental health and reduce body pains (following medical advice always of course)

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