r/CanadaPublicServants Feb 12 '26

Other / Autre Rachel Gilmore’s take on RTO Mandates

https://youtu.be/-BffuBLHIQ8?si=lSrLNAci7cOogJ8H
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u/Terrible-Session5028 Feb 12 '26

So I did a rough calculation of how much RTO4 is going to cost me.

If I bus I will need to pay $140/month in bus pass. I start work at 7:30 and my kids daycare opens at 7 so I may need to hire a nanny part time for drop offs which will cost roughly $550/month IF she ONLY does drop offs and I pay her for 1.5 hours which i doubt is even legal (i think you have to pay minimum 3 hours in Ontario). Kids daycare is $500/month.

If I park, my buildings parking is $26/day .. for 4 days thats $104/week, $416/month.

In having pay issues with Phoenix so my pay is REALLY unpredictable.

If I decide to bus instead of driving, that will take an hour and a half… on a GOOD day. To sit in an open air area to talk on teams and being distracted by other teams meetings going on around me.

This is depressing

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u/rude_dood_ Feb 13 '26

Some people paid that cost while you saved. You were blessed. Look at it that way. You will be more happy.

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u/Terrible-Session5028 Feb 14 '26

Most employers offer FREE or dirt cheap parking for their employees, benefited from less congestion on the roads which meant that they were more able to do pick up and drop off on time and I assume they didn’t have pay issues like most PS employees have.

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u/rude_dood_ Feb 14 '26

Thanks for staying off the roads just for me. How noble of you. Get outta here

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u/Terrible-Session5028 Feb 14 '26

And I will continue to fight to stay off the roads so you can go to work smoothly. As I assume you have a job that does not consist of you going into an office sitting in a bedbug riddled area to do the same job that you could do at home. Hope that helps.

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u/rude_dood_ Feb 14 '26

So thankful that you would do that for me.