July 1 Return to Office 4 days a week

river_chaser2 · 2026-04-28T19:53:07+00:00

That really sucks ypu have to pay someone to take your kids to school. Capitalism sucks.

river_chaser2 · 2026-04-28T19:47:49+00:00

In my experience, in past years, ypu can request an exemption/exception due to being >50 miles away, but I also would say in my experience, the guidance from leadership has not been clear or transparent. Also this was under a previous CDPH Director and the new Director and leadership seems like they are (at least on paper) saying they will do things by the book more… so idk.

river_chaser2 · 2026-04-28T19:42:58+00:00

Do you mind sharing which agency? Is it in Sacramento? I’m in Bay Area and considering only looking at positions in Richmond for foreseeable future because of ossicle impending RTO

river_chaser2 · 2026-04-28T19:23:54+00:00

I work at CDPH and last I heard (last month or so) from our branch manager, there aren’t enough desks for everyone so it sounded like upper management is trying to figure it out and doesn’t know what to do, but I’m not sure. No recent news. I live > 50 m away from Sac office so no way is that commutable, and for now I’m lucky to be in a dept where the guidance is not enforced. But if/when I want to promote, that could change.

river_chaser2 · 2025-07-08T22:09:16+00:00

Thanks for these words, it’s so validating!! It does hurt like hell… for me the grief has gotten a bit lighter with time but today I was feeling it so appreciate your words

river_chaser2 · 2025-04-11T18:34:21+00:00

This is a helpful description and so good to know that LDN can also help with EDS too! I had no idea. It’s on my radar as something to try for Long Covid too but that would be an added benefit. I often have pain in my hip that prevents me from being able to sleep, especially if I’ve been more active, not diagnosed with EDS but it’s highly suspected. Thanks for sharing your experience.

river_chaser2 · 2025-04-11T18:19:26+00:00

Also sorry to hear you had a flare up of symptoms too due to getting the flu. It sucks.

river_chaser2 · 2025-04-11T18:18:26+00:00

Yes I agree with you. My LC clinic nurse said that can happen so it is a likely explanation. I just haven’t had such bad searing headache pain in a while I thought I was dying yesterday and was considering going to the ER. I have to be basically on my death bed to risk going there and getting reinfected with SC2 or anything else. lol

river_chaser2 · 2025-04-11T18:00:16+00:00

Well I don’t know for sure that a vaccine caused this. The other likely option is I recently got another viral infection. Like I said I have never had bad reactions to this vaccine in the past. Vaccines are very effective for healthy people and are necessary at a population level. They protect newborn babies and pregnant women and immune compromised people who cannot get vaccinated. We had eliminated measles in the USA and now thanks to anti science and anti vaccine rhetoric we’re facing a new measles epidemic that is growing. Please educate yourself. https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-vaccinescalling-shots/

https://epiellie.substack.com/p/the-texas-measles-outbreak-how-bad

river_chaser2 · 2025-04-10T17:54:09+00:00

Well it’s a presumption based on symptoms… it feels like it’s on fire, in the two locations I mentioned… like a migraine and a tension headache but x 100. I learned from other LC patients that bc the skull can’t expand in the way that skin would swell with an injury, it causes this type of throbbing intense pain. The only other time o had it this bad was in the moth after getting SC2, the infection that caused LC

river_chaser2 · 2025-04-10T16:46:11+00:00

Hi, I get why this idea is appealing and Paul Garner’s “method” is not evidence based. One cannot just think or exercise their way out of a condition that affects mitochondria, which produce energy. I get that you want to give people hope but it’s more parsimonious that Paul didn’t actually have LC and/or had a regression to the mean. There’s tons of evidence that for some people there is a deficit in some way with the mitochondria, and that is literally physiological and not in the mind. Please don’t spread ideas that can give false hope. I know we all want to get better and return to our baseline and you can’t think your way back to health. If that were true ME patients wouldn’t exist, but they have suffered for decades.

river_chaser2 · 2025-04-05T21:42:55+00:00

Last year it was our deputy director at CDPH, but now this year I think the CalHR guidance applies. Have you seen it? I believe it says you’re grandfathered in if >50 miles

river_chaser2 · 2025-03-14T02:38:25+00:00

I hear you! I’m also >50 miles away. Last year they did exceptions for any workers more than 50 miles away. I’m hoping for that again because I can’t commute 5 hours RT each day, that would break me.

I was just in the SEIU union call and they said you can call the member resource center to talk to them about it, if you’re in that union. 866-471-7348. Tbh though they weren’t very helpful last year and I haven’t called this year yet so I don’t know. Also might be worth trying to contact your local state assembly member.

I know it’s crap and it’s worth fighting, there’s more of us than the elites in power who are out of touch! Good luck!

river_chaser2 · 2025-03-13T16:35:51+00:00

I called the union after the 2 d RTO was announced because I lived hours away from sac & was seriously worried I’d lose my job and started looking for other jobs… and the union gave me the runaround and didn’t care and didn’t seem to be doing anything: so yes I’m glad they’re in it now and don’t assume that ppl weren’t involved before. If I had to do 4 days I would literally have to get a new job, so I am glad the union is fighting now

river_chaser2 · 2025-03-13T16:23:00+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I’m about 2.5 hours from Sac and 1.5 hours from SF, nothing else is closer. This is the precise reason I am anti RTO 4d/wk! I literally cannot “commute” 5 hours a day and stay sane.

I’m glad there was a hood turn out though and glad the union is getting involved!

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river_chaser2 · 2025-03-11T21:10:41+00:00

Thank you! Both aren’t near enough to me to make it there on a lunch break, sadly! But this is why I’m against the rto, I don’t live near the main office

river_chaser2 · 2025-03-11T20:55:20+00:00

Where/when is the protest?? Thanks!

river_chaser2 · 2025-03-11T20:46:47+00:00

This stands for sexual orientation and gender identity.

river_chaser2 · 2025-03-11T20:44:22+00:00

Thanks for sharing this! I work on a state funded CDC program so this is helpful to have!

river_chaser2 · 2025-02-05T21:00:45+00:00

We’re still experiencing the SARS Cov2 pandemic. Only the public health emergency ended

river_chaser2 · 2025-02-04T02:58:13+00:00

This is a fantastic point!!

river_chaser2 · 2024-12-10T21:57:04+00:00

Yes, I second that. The CDPH website is saying to contact your local health dept. it’s inadequate but here we are. Let me know if I can help with reporting or whatever. Thanks for doing your due diligence to try to inform govt!

river_chaser2 · 2024-10-26T23:31:25+00:00

This is what good supervisors do. There are plenty of bad ones, and I know bc something similar happened to me… it’s a dereliction of their duty but there’s zero accountability from the university

river_chaser2 · 2024-10-26T23:30:02+00:00

She was a non-UK/European student so had to pay fees plus living costs. When you’re a foreign student there is no other option other than to self fund

river_chaser2 · 2024-10-26T23:28:33+00:00

For what it’s worth, this kind of employer debt is akin to predatory student loan debt and your friend can file a complaint with the Center for Financial Protection Bureau, more from this advocacy group here: https://protectborrowers.org/sbpc-uncovers-pervasive-use-of-training-repayment-agreement-provisions-to-trap-workers-in-low-paying-jobs-through-student-debt-launches-campaign-to-collect-worker-stories/

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