Won't call it return to office because 1) I was a remote coded position from hire, had nothing to do with covid, and 2) no one in my entire department is in my building. 100% of my human interaction at the office is on teams. It's still remote.
Anyway, got up and on some early meetings so did those from home. Left for office around 9, about 9:45 got to office. Got my stuff unpacked and set up, and the docking station appeared to be broken as the monitors wouldn't boot up. Fiddled with it about 10 minutes before just moving to a different cube. Cube 2# the monitors would boot up but the network wouldn't connect. Reset the Ethernet cable on both ends with no luck. I have a lot of work I have to get done and more meetings upcoming I couldn't miss so turned around and drove home. So about 2 hours of my working hours lost so I could be forced to work remotely somewhere other than where it makes the most sense and just works and has produced exemplary results.
My morale doesn't feel great going from a stack of shield awards to feeling like I'm just being handicapped and undermined from the very people who should be supporting me while I work hard supporting them. Yes I do believe upper management has a role in not antagonizing their employees in an attempt to drive self-selected attrition.