Cities need to be made to live in, not to be commuted into. This change will happen, over time, but the cities need to adapt.

FWIW, Mission Foods does have a GF Tortilla that is standard size. I would touch base at r/glutenfree and check in on their product reviews.

No. Read again

It explains that fox is propaganda and people fall for the lunacy.

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Yup I see that too. Most are worried they won't make it until their retirement date. I can't even imagine being a year away from retirement and have to find something else

I've been there for 10 years and I've watched things rapidly deteriorate in that amount of time. I always feel sorry for some of the people I work with that have been there since the early '90s. Some of them are so disheartened and they just want to retire but the economy is so bad that some of them can't. Some of them even talk about the golden years of the '90s and how it was such a wonderful place to work.

Right they took away all the good stuff that made it worth it to work for the state. I've been there for almost 14 years and feel like I'm stuck. It's luke they don't even care about us.

It is really unsettling and upsetting. It's sad that the Commonwealth doesn't really seem to make it a priority when it comes to employee retention. It used to be people wanted to work for the state because you had good health benefits... Decent pay... And the pension. Now the decent pay is going out the window and the pension is gone for most workers unless you've been grandfathered in. Like I said the health insurance is still decent.

I've heard that they were floating the idea of reinstating the pension for all workers to try to create some retention. But the way I see it is that is a good idea but if I'm a new worker coming into the state the pension is the last thing on my mind. I would rather start out with good pay. It seems to me that they want to dance around the issue and that is the workers need paid more. And until that happens they're going to keep bleeding.

Get a fucking life.

I work at one of the last state centers for intellectual disabilities and we are having the same issue. We've had contract/agency helping us for the past year or more and it's getting to the point where there are more contract than regular state staff. I don't see us being open much longer due to no one wanting to work there and more people keep leaving. It's upsetting!

Just spitballing here, but maybe you could order a burrito bowl and use GF tortillas you bought elsewhere? My wife has celiac and she usually gets bowls. I do too, because the portions end up being bigger.

they think everyone would be going to those restaurants again but the truth is that we're all so much poorer from inflation that we'd be packing our lunches anyway.

K buddy lol … go get ‘em… my little social justice prince

Authentic Mexican restaurants are almost always celiac-friendly, EXCEPT for burritos (and quesadillas). Corn tortillas just don't hold up well once they get that wide, it's a matter of practicality.

For reference, Mission's "Super Size" corn tortillas are less than six inches in diameter. You need at least 10-12 for a burrito that deserves the name.

Get ready to give up $15 and your old couch buddy. It;s coming.

This is just so verifiably incorrect.

Not one thought given to consumers of government services. I have to wait two months to form an LLC (a process that used to take a day or two) because these lazy shitheads can’t come to the office.

2 more years till I'm vested with the original pension plan and then I'm out. no reason to stick around if they reverse the teleworking agreement.

Harrisburg should knock down the empty parking garages and put in high density housing units imo.

Second Street shouldn't be left at the whims of commuters. Also, what happened to all the leases Governor Wolf was renegotiating? I thought Wolf was trying to shed office space and force state workers back on the complex

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“I’m higher up so fuck you, I’m working from home but your asses better be in the office.”

If your employees don’t like you, that might have something to do with it. Personally I’d walk into your empty office, toss my badge on your desk, and maybe in two weeks when you next go in you’d realize I quit.

I’m in the private sector and we had to start doing 3 days a week in office for “collaboration”. I have not spoken more than 20 words any day I have been in. My boss sits in her office with her door closed and just IMs people. HR is sabotaging everyone by not allowing IT to provide hardware to work hybrid.

non-union state employee here. The work we do can all be done virtually and we’ve proven that for the past 2.5 years. The email sent out by OA was pretty much a slap in the face and came off like they (leadership) do not care about their employees. I seriously wouldn’t mind coming in once or twice a week, for maybe half days. Sometimes it’s good to just get in touch with our teams face to face and brainstorm. However, when we’re in the office nothing gets done. It’s like back to back meetings and people want to be chatty. In my house it’s quiet and I can power through so much more work. I won’t even go into the driving time/car/gas savings. Not sure what their goal is here but there’s a lot of tension within agencies!

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Our teaches union (in Central PA) is currently grieving the jobs of the online only teachers that are working from home.

If they call back state employees, we have several in our office that are on the cusp of retiring. Many of them have said if they are called back, they would just sign their papers. Of an office of 35, there is at least 4 that have said they wouldn’t come back. They may not seem like much but our office is already short 3 workers and our caseloads are very heavy as it is. To get approval to fill those positions, have the staff trained, and carrying a full case load would take over a year. I am hoping they really consider teleworking as not only are the wages part of the retention problem, but so is the teleworking option.

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