Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

If they really needed people in the office they would just turn off the VPN - problem solved. They have never even considered that, so we know the whole subject is a lie.

They're not mutually exclusive. I can complain while in the office.

I am back in the office. Complaining is part of collaboration. Its what they want.

Enforce for all. Bedminster still has people working from home with no plans of returning. What about the VPN reports?
If the manager and upper management (based in Dallas) are not enforcing - then they should be addressed.
Was the Bedminster site visit beneficial???

I wouldn’t mind the office…if it was an office. 3 feet of a table, having 5 other people within a 4 foot radius hosting separate meetings, having to smell disgusting food all day in front of my pc, and people taking off their sandals. “Needs of the Business”…G_F_Y!

I just want a professional environment to do my job. In college, did you study at a frat party, or in the Library? Oh wait…did you go college, or rather are you one of these 60 plus’ers who started in the “Switchroom” only to make $100k a year the last twenty years without a degree, most likely while working from home?

Please explain why you complain and remain

The same reason you do and then go home and b*itch to your wife or husband abt work

I think it's so funny (except not really) how
OBVIOUS it is to easily and drastically improve morale:

1. Cancel RTO altogether
2. C suite takes responsibility for everything they're blaming employees for

They act like they're trying so hard to improve culture when the answer is right in front of their faces and ours. Oh the things greed will make people do.

I complain because it is all I have left.

Yawn. Boring out of touch post. Stop trying to paint broad strokes with your minority brush. Nobody agrees with you, John.

When you state it’s all just people complaining about RTO, you are giving a pass to the most inept and tone deaf, arrogant and out of touch CEO out there.

It’s not really about RTO anymore. ..
It’s about treating your workers like excr-ment and telling them (begging them practically) to leave if they don’t like it.

It’s about urging managers to take an OHI survey to gauge the culture, and promising to share the results and then burying them and lying about why.

It’s about stating out loud that your workforce is still too old during a live town hall and then deleting the recording.

It’s about getting dismal feedback and engagement on an eNPS survey, and then sending an email late on a Friday to every management employee telling them their feedback on said survey isn’t valid, and (again) that they should leave if they don’t like it here...and then tasking your lowest level management to come up with action plans to "fix" it.

Can we get on a Teams call and discuss this?

So says the Union guy with all the protections in the world, better benefits and net net probably makes more money than most people in an office. You have to be there to physically do something. Most office people do not. RTO wouldn’t bother me if it was actually valuable, if the team I’m on actually collaborated, etc, but the reality is, everyone is all over the place as we deal with regional groups, we were virtual long before COVID, we work 24/7/365, we don’t get OT for that. Driving to an office and getting slammed if I don’t do 5x8, plus work all the extra hours is a slap in the face. Yes, I will be leaving as soon as I can find something else.

Another lonely extrovert that gets their victims from the workplace.

I would feel much more motivated and engaged if they got rid of John Stankey.

I’m tired about people being tired about people complaining about RTO.

Yes…. I’m meta-tired.

Welp, i guess that's it. @OP+1k4kzgnzk is "sick of all the whining about RTO."

Since theirs is clearly the only opinion that matters, everyone here must adopt to their preferences immediately.

@OP+1k4kzgnzk please provide a list of all acceptable topics that we are allowed to discuss. I'd hate to inadvertently overstep the boundaries, as established by you.

Regardless of the merits- working from home, in-office or hybrid, you accepted employment from the company, in exchange for pay. The employer has and always will set the terms of employment (pay, type of work, organization, policies, etc.). As the company/person who employs you, they make the rules, you don't dictate terms to them. This is capitalism. If the policies fail, the company fails, and that's on management. If you don't accept the employment terms, you should leave. Reminds me of the old cliché, inmates are running the insane asylum; said about workplaces to criticize situations where those who lack the necessary authority or competence are making decisions that should be handled by qualified individuals, regardless if they are believed to be qualified or not.

As other posters have written, this topic is dead. Complaining will not change the company strategy, even if you think you are smarter than the ones in charge. In fact, you should be applying for those leadership positions in other companies since you know best! This is the real world.

The medial is full of companies who are requiring RTO in some form. Hard to believe so many leaders are making the same mistake!

Those complaining the most about RTO are usually the ones who need more accountability for work productivity.

OP is that you Stank? didn't sleep well?

If you RTO in Atlanta, please RTO on Monday in New Jersey. If you RTO in New Jersey please report to Dallas. Thank You. Mr Stank
(Stay in Dallas ok)

What is ruined by anyone who stays? The culture is trash because of RTO not the people who hate it.

OP is what’s wrong with the company

Get off of my lawn!

Nobody's forcing you to come here.

Also, you're whining yourself.