Thread regarding T-Mobile layoffs

WFH- CEC Experts

Word is on the street that we will be returning full time by the end of the year.

With all of the recent layoffs and prior friendships between colleagues, T-Mobile will be forcing everyone back into the office.

Don’t want to work in the office prepared to be fired.

Want an accommodation? Sorry even though you’ve been working from home for 3.5 years your role isn’t designed for that and now it is an unreasonable accommodation.

Get ready!

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@1ggk+1opvCXFK ADA specifies only workplace accommodation The EEOC's guidance reaffirms three key ADA principles regarding remote work as a reasonable accommodation: 1. The right to remote work is not automatic. Not every employee with a disability is entitled to telework as a reasonable accommodation.Feb 14, 2023.

  1. The employer does not have to eliminate an essential function. It is well established that the ADA never requires an employer to eliminate an essential function as an accommodation for an individual with a disability. Therefore, an employer does not have to continue allowing an employee to telework as a reasonable accommodation after the workplace reopens if doing so excuses the employee from performing an essential function.
  1. A temporary accommodation is not a permanent change of job duties. If an employer temporarily excused performance of one or more essential job functions during the pandemic it does not mean that the employer permanently changed the essential job functions. In other words, by allowing telework during the pandemic an employer is not automatically required to allow telework when employees return to the worksite post pandemic. Under the ADA, accommodation requests are to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
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Post ID: @3nal+1opvCXFK

Wfh folks always forget that they can be replaced by a higher skilled worker remotely from another country working whatever hours are needed for less than the company pays them. Take the check, bend the knee.

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Post ID: @3fki+1opvCXFK

Hey @1poh+1opvCXFK GenX coach here, get your a-s back in the office. Nobody cares.

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Post ID: @3ysv+1opvCXFK

@1lsx+1opvCXFK not sure how much of a success you think the merger was - guess it depends on your perspective and what side of the business you sit on.

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Post ID: @2ave+1opvCXFK

@1nbm+1opvCXFK. WFH Rep here who was forced to stay wfh an entire year ppl were in the centers due to vax status. Made top five in the whole site one month last year and staid top 20-10% every month and still am. So, you can go fu-k yourself with that bullsh-t that wfh peeps don’t work. Gen X here sweetheart. We do our job and then some and we don’t need a bunch of cry baby snowflakes to socialize with in order to do our job.

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Post ID: @1poh+1opvCXFK

Just you wait until they bring back business attire!

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Post ID: @1pca+1opvCXFK

The fact is - that for every WFH person who's doing a good job - there's another 2 that are working some of the time and loafing/goofing off the other (usually those who are on here stumping for WFH).....
Zero issue with them saying work from the office.

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Post ID: @1nli+1opvCXFK

It's really sad that people still have such an issue with WFH. There are always those who will continue to live in the past. This is 2023, not 1985, we do not need to all sit in a conference room and whiteboard to collaborate. We successfully merged two mega cooperations over the past few years which required significant collaboration and coordinated efforts, most took place while working almost 100% from home. We accomplished this while realizing record company performance quarter over quarter and year over year.

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Post ID: @1lsx+1opvCXFK

It's so cute (though so sad) how the same people are STILL here churning out the same tired posts trying to change the narrative around WFH. Yes, we get it, you really love socializing and going on hourly vape breaks with all your buddies. Just accept that some of DON'T want that and our stats while WFH away from your nonsense are carrying you. This is tired.

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Post ID: @1dtn+1opvCXFK

Oh no! You don’t get to sit around at home answering the doorbell, chasing your kids around, going unplanned whenever you want, just generally fu----g around? Haven’t seen a single WFH CEC expert make it out of the bottom 20%

If you’re that “disabled” or needing such an extreme exception, get on disability ffs

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Post ID: @1nbm+1opvCXFK

T-Mobile is only interested "accommodating" a disability if it will help you GET TO THE OFFICE.
If you have a debilitating pain disability? Forget it.
They will tell you to take an intermittent leave of absence rather than work from home.

That's right. They would rather you NOT work at all, rather than work successfully from home.

I hope to be able to tell my full story to the media someday. I never have felt so discrimindated against, and such lack of compassion in my life.

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