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- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 8 hours ago:
It is a bit of a stretch maybe, BUT ALSO, try being a woman in a toxic male dominated workplace and I get it.
But the problem isn’t actually the layout, it’s the environment and culture of that place.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 days ago:
I’ve been remote for 5 years, since Covid. And it’s been wonderful. I’ve been more productive, happier, better relationship with my family, had more time for hobbies and cooking healthy, spent WAY less money on fast food and gasoline. Before Covid I was in an office and hated it, but didn’t even know why, after I was home for a few weeks I realized why, it’s because I wasn’t being interrupted and distracted every 5 seconds all day long and when I had meetings I could keep working while talking on the video call instead of having to log off, get up and walk to a meeting room.
Now they are making half the company come back in if you are within some arbitrary radius. Which means teams are all split like mine where half must now commute in, but half don’t, so me and half my team now has to commute in just to go into a conference room and join a video call with the other half.
And the meetings are scattered all over every day so that basically means no actual work will get done every day.
I’m looking forward to chatting with my coworkers and laughing as productivity tanks.
Maybe instead of having meetings all day and forcing people to commute in for a computer based job management could be clear about what is needed, enable people and set them up for success and then leave them alone to get it done.
It feels like trying to swim 100m, but there is a manager walking along the edge next to you asking you for updates every 5 seconds. Still swimming and the more you ask the longer this takes.
I think RTO is just a power play. They can do a soft pay cut, a soft layoff as people quit, establish dominance and force employees to be their fake little family instead of their actual families.
It’s so ridiculous.
It’s the same fad thing as Open Office Layouts were a decade or two ago. Everyone hates it, productivity tanked, it was miserable, but everyone was doing it so CEOs did it to show how current they were.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 days ago:
It’s a classic manipulation technique. It’s never “I think that…” It’s always framed as “Lots of people think that …” to give it credibility, but it’s a lie and meant to manipulate you into feeling like you are alone and the group all thinks differently than you to force you to comply.
Lots of leaders do it. Trump does it constantly. CEOs do it. Abusive people do it in their relationships.
Once you know it and recognize it you start seeing it EVERYWHERE from dishonest people.
It’s funny to ask them “Which people say that?” If you can. It makes them SQUIRM.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 days ago:
I guess that can be true, but my company is all over the country. Teams like mine are half local and half out of state. They are forcing us all back in the office, but not for all those far away. There are small teams that have only 1 or 2 people local and they are making that one person drive into an office anyway. It’s like a slap in the face to me.
We’ve proved remote work is better in every metric.
If they really want people to have a better rapport, there are other ways besides decreeing blindly that everyone must travel to a central space. It just puts all the cost and burden on the employees and takes 0 effort from management to actually, ya know, manage.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Praise be his hypocritical name. In the name of the racism, the grift, and the holy crime, amen.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They play your favorite song, but the tuba is right in your face and the band is off key.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Florida is already the rusty old car on blocks in the front yard.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
All we gotta do is
trickconvince some company to hire us as CEO. Get paid millions more than the employees and do nothing! Sounds like my kind of gig. - Comment on 2 weeks ago:
And that’s different from now, how exactly?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
He rose from the dead? I knew something about him seemed zombie like. The dead eyes and awkward hand motions gives it away.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, honestly once a month isn’t that bad. Annoying because you MUST do it, but like you said, not so bad. I’ve done once a week and it feels ok ish. Like, I can’t get ANYTHING done in the office anymore. It’s too distracting, too many meetings, and as opposed to being at home, I now have to commute, get lunch, etc. And when in meetings in person you can’t really keep working, but a zoom call, yeah I can get half my work done while sitting through all the meetings all day, but not now and I’m not about to go into unpaid overtime to make up their awful decision. And I’m not going to log on early or stay late either. Done with all that. You get your 8 hours, no more now. So I’m sorta looking forward to sitting around in meetings all day discussing all the things we could be working on.
That would be hilarious if you took PTO that 1 day every month. Amazing. Come in like, one time per year just to make a point that you didn’t skip them ALL. Hahaha.
Honestly though, if your pay isn’t that great keep looking and bail asap.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 weeks ago:
The jar got stuck in my drain.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been WFH since Covid for Ed it, but then a year ago the promised us WFH full time was here to stay and only those that needed or wanted to be in the office could. They downsized buildings and everything. Nice!
They just told us we all had to be back in the office in a month. There isn’t enough offices, not enough parking, we’ve blown away all the productivity metrics at home, half the company is out of state. But, uh, REASONS! We must have butts in THIS specific chair or work doesn’t count.
There is literally no valid reason to force it. I think it’s all about control and power. They really don’t care about productivity or employee satisfaction at all, they just want to force everyone to comply. If they wanted either of those other things we’ve proved what works.
I hate it. It feels like the dumb “open office” fad all over again. Let’s cram 200 people into a single giant open noisy room. Employees HATED it. Managers all gloated how innovative they were. Then it faded away again as they all slowly accepted that no one gets anything done in that chaotic environment.
So too with office vs home. We live in a digital age. The computer age. The internet age. Long gone is the age of work being done by shaking hands and looking at a binder of papers. It’s an email, zoom call and a pdf now. Accept it.
In a weird way I’m actually looking forward to my company all going back with 0 coherent plan and not enough parking or desks and then I’ll giggle as productivity and morale absolutely tanks.
It’s also very likely they know a certain % will quit over it and do it on purpose to lay off without having to. The only problem is that all the most experienced and qualified people leave first.
Companies have had 5 years to accept reality, sell off the MASSIVELY expensive offices and stay fully remote where possible, but no, I think they want control over profits. They want to FEEL like they are managing instead of actually managing.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
He is, without a doubt, the worst and second worst president in the country’s entire history.
Trump: “Ah, but you have heard of me!”
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 2 weeks ago:
I mean true. At least Germany and Romans didn’t have JarJar.
- Comment on Microsoft axe another 9000 in continued AI push 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Everyone likes to blame AI right now, but the actual reality is that everything has been getting more automated, centralized, efficient, etc. What used to be an entire office of people using typewriters and paper and pens and file cabinets is now a single SQL database with some code doing analysis and reports. What used to be an entire team of programmers and analysts can now be a handful of people using AI and pre built templates or software. AI is just the next evolution of an already existing story of evolving industries. Similarly 1 farmer in an ACed tractor can now sow and reap entire fields of food that used to be hundreds of people for days in the hot sun.
We don’t need to be afraid of the technology, but we also don’t want to move so fast that we lay off thousands of people all at once and they have no other job to go to.
We COULD, in theory demand that every worker that gets replaced by AI and laid off or fired in any way gets a retirement or UBI or something. Some small cut of their former paycheck, but we all know what is about to happen, the few executives at the top are going to fire more and more people and automate more and more things and collect all of the profits and wealth for themselves and leave the rest of us to starve. But that’s what the Republicans want, it’s the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” party, which in practice just means screw you, I got lucky and got mine.
The only good thing about AI is that, in theory, anyone could train up their own ML system and profit off what it does. That does give the command person the potential to enter industries they didn’t before. Similar to the movable type printing press suddenly opening the way for more people to publish a book. Or the Internet opening the way for me to talk to you where we couldn’t have like this 40 years ago.
All of that to say, in a long way, we create more and better technology and tools as a species, it’s what we do. We need to embrace that, but also be mindful of what we are creating and for what purposes. Splitting the atom can provide power to entire cities or destroy them. So too could AI provide something good for mankind, but could also destroy.
- Comment on How do you safely film a group of masked armed men while they are in the process of committing a crime, without them knowing that you are recording? [USA] 3 weeks ago:
Punt Gun vs 23 kidnappers 4K 200,000FPS slomo.
- Comment on How do you safely film a group of masked armed men while they are in the process of committing a crime, without them knowing that you are recording? [USA] 3 weeks ago:
Bring a bigger group.
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 3 weeks ago:
Be careful though, emergency dissolution of the Senate is exactly how Palpatine gained power. There has to be a careful plan and new system ready to go and not just fall to the one person it shouldn’t.
I know it’s fiction, but just saying. Dissolving it is one thing, but having a coherent plan is another.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 3 weeks ago:
Overthrow your tyrannical government, you won’t.
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