So the guidance is that you need to work a full 8 hours but should still feel free to pick up your kids or attend medical appointments etc? I literally asked what happens if it’s snowing and I need to leave a little early to pick my kid up before school closes or my kid is sick and I need to get them and the answers was find a way to be here 8 hours/ find another day to come 8 hours or you risk being ‘noncompliant’ which may impact your performance LOL so the real answer is that the RTO guide that was sent to managers is straight up BS and there is zero flexibility for unexpected events. Feeling so tired of this company which I’ve foolishly worked hard for all these years. We are truly unappreciated and disposable.
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You are correct!
I'm going to devote myself to watching those around me, taking notes in my little notebook. Who drifts in a few minutes late, who is unaccounted for during the day, who takes a long lunch, who engages in idle chit chat, who uses their device more than I think is needed, who knocks off early.
I'm going to be really busy so you know, my day-to-day productivity is going to crater but at least it enables managers and executives to avoid the uncomfortable aspects of their jobs. Why should they have to suffer?
So, where do I submit all this, so that the wonderful things start to happen?
"we" let coworkers hide in the shadows, be low performers but maintain employment?
these coworkers reported to no one and had no one to manage their performance?
or were "we" supposed to proactively take on those duties, just on our own?
bootlicker.
No such thing as 8 hours in office
OP - If you work like you write, I'm guessing your boss would like you to leave.
The goal is to get more of us to drop like flies, and then be there for 4 days before anyone notices.
@b4 That's the point my friend. There is nothing in writing unless you're a manager and even then it's vaguely written at best and purposely obfuscating at worst. Wake up and smell the lawsuits brewing.
@cz
No, Remote works. RTO works. Hybrid works.
It's not a one size fits all.
If your job can't handle remote, then go hybrid. If it can't handle that, then it's in the office for you.
@bj
Speak for yourself. I was remote since 2006 and now I have to go in to a "community" setting to hear everyone else's calls, bi--h about their work, their lives, their politics, all the while not knowing who the F they are. The a--hats should have kept the cubes, at least we would have had some privacy.
Productivity and collaboration became poorer? Yeah, right. That's a knee sla--er right there.
@bj isn’t wrong. Everyone wants to cry about how it impacts them but decades of complacency and laziness lands you right here where we are at. Congratulations, you all are getting the opportunity to reap what you’ve sown. You let coworkers hide in the shadows, be low performers but maintain employment, all bs under the guise of minding your own business.
Here’s what minding your business gets you. Can’t tell who the azzhats are so everyone gets the taste the rainbow.
Yeah so much for flexibility being a competitive advantage. "Hey I have a family that I'm working for and something has come up and I need to go take care of them and work from home." "Sure, just be sure to come back and spend even more time away from them in your slavish devotion to us."
Where is the guidance or reference to policy about eight hours I think this is nonsense.
Well in the Bay Area the commute back to work after dropping the kids home alone will take 2 hours, parking garages shut their doors at 8 PM and to stay in the office till 11:30 PM to make the full 8 hours means that requires special permission from the Managers. Don’t even know if they keep the AC or heat on till midnight. An impossible feat for parents with kids who need to be able to go to school and get picked up from. I fail to recall when I signed this 8 hr at office in the offer letter.