So many of you are complaining but you’re the reason why the higher ups have to babysit us. I can’t tell you how many people I witnessed who would come in at 8 or 9 and leave by 11-12. I’m sure there were many others who even stayed less than that. You took advantage and now we all have to pay the price. If you don’t want to work then quit. If you find another gig, chances are you’ll have to RTO there as well. It’s industry wide. This company has always been slow trimming the fat and boy do we have more than what around Derek Flowers waist
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I really wonder what stupid excuses the bootlickers will come up with when all the remotes and nonhubbers are gone, and everyone getting downsized every two weeks is 100% RTO compliant.
The executives Do not want you in ANY office. They want you gone. It's obvious and it started long before COVID and RTO and the rest of it. It started before Shart. It won't end until we're all gone.
Some people work to live. Others live to work. It's this latter group that loves working in the office. They flit from desk to desk pretending that gossiping is working. Some people regard the office as a social club. These are the ones who enjoy commercials. They are NPCs.
@e0 Before COVID, people worked from home full time just because they wanted to and their manager said it was okay. I didn't know anyone who did 5 days, we all at the very least did Fridays and bad weather days and sick-but-not-too-sick days from home. On our team, about a third were full time remote with one day a month in the office, about half were doing 2 or 3 days a week in office, and the rest were doing 4 plus some random WFH days. People did the schedule that worked for them and if someone was underperforming they were coached, not ordered to spend more time in a noisy, uncomfortable environment where they couldn't focus on improving.
We were treated like professional adults who could manage our own workloads, in other words.
My new routine:
1 hr drive, 15 walk from car to cube, 8 hours work (plus 15 min lunch break), 15 walk to car, 1 hr drive home, 15 min dinner, 3 hrs work. 2 hr leaning new stuff like AI, some sleep (maybe).
Do it all again 5 days a week.
Coffee badger here: I'm getting way LESS done now that I have to stay 8 hours in this place.
@a2 yeah, they should have. But it is now.
@ap seems like crying. It will go back to 5 days office eventually like before covid.
@b4 winter is coming for you douch$bag.
Nothing says "available" like spending a couple hours a day driving around for no reason. Maybe in your group all the in office people were the hard workers, it was the opposite in mine. While you were busy with non-work, I was getting S done.
There's a strong correlation between people who coffee badge and who are also never available when needed, produce very little and whine like babies when asked to do something as simple as come in to work like most other people. The idea that the coffee badge crowd are actually working hard from home is so ludicrous its obvious anyone who claims otherwise is clearly a troll.
@am+1k706fzp6 Put the family first when you are getting paid to work, count on your co-workers to pick up the slack, and whine and complain when the gravy train ends. Sounds about right.
Coffee badger here - it’s all my fault!!
Appears OP exactly does what he says - takes advantage of his peers and subordinates.
Just because we left the office didn't mean we stopped working. Some of us left and went home to work in an environment that was QUIET, and didn't smell like someone's LUNCH and we didn't have to listen to someone on SPEAKERPHONE. Seems reasonable to me.
Sounds like OP is a control freak Manager - please come to the office at 7 AM and stay there as long ever hours as you wish because guess what - there are many people who have a life and a family with kids to take care of and they PROUDLY put the family first. Every day over work.
The original poster expected employees to stay in the office for 8 hours out of the goodness of their hearts I guess before this requirement came out.
@a5 Blame mind numbing d-mb decision to move as much as possible offshore
Honey, I work 12-14 hours a day to keep all the ba--s in the air. Off hours to deal with employees in every country. AND I work multiple weekends a month. I think it’s the other way around. Not anymore !
You realize a lot of us had full time telecommute agreements years before the pandemic started, right?
Working conditions are never going to improve if people like you keep it up with the crab in a bucket mentality
Yes, the same people that downsized 100,000 people since the merger are definitely super duper interested in butts in seats. GTFO OP. They are LYING TO YOU. FFS.
Sounds like you should have added the expectations to the employee handbook since that was never communicated to my manager