Was the first week of five day RTO as bad as people thought? What was your experience on a serious level. Seemed more like pre covid in Hopkinton. I've seen a few in my group not make the 5 days, not sure what will happen to them. I'm curious to what what happens as that will gauge how strict they're going to be about mandating the full five days.
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then find another job that allows that....pretty simple. Nobody owes you anything, remember that.
“Many coffee badgers which seems ridiculous to me. Why drive in, swipe l, than go home? You aren't "sticking it to anyone ". This will result in more mandates. Please stop.”
Maybe some people don’t need to be in the office and prefer to work from home. That’s why they drive in, swipe, and go home. Sad that Dell hires people that are too stupid to understand this. I guess that’s why they need to be under adult supervision in the office.
Lousy (and dirty) chair at the office. By day 3, my back started to hurt.
I didn't see anything hockey related in hopkinton
Oh no, you had to listen to Stanley cups? How horrible. I’m sure everyone feels just awful that people drinking water bothers you so much. How on earth will you cope?
Doing work and getting paid
Was good to see folks. Loud and difficult to concentrate. Huddle rooms were not used as they are not set up for teams or zoom calls. Everyone on calls with folks around the world. Some complaints about background noise. Enjoyed coffee. Many coffee badgers which seems ridiculous to me. Why drive in, swipe l, than go home? You aren't "sticking it to anyone ". This will result in more mandates. Please stop. Personally, I would like us to go back to hybrid.
RR 1/2 a mile from building to find parking. Lunch lines 50 people deep and repeat at register. Bathrooms out of tp and soap. Musical floors and buildings and cubicles with no clarity. 80s style cubicles and desks and chairs with expected ergonomics. Chairs literally disintegrating. Floors being renovated and it didn’t even start til March.
Silver lining is few seem to be doing full days in the office. Most are still doing morning or afternoon shift like the whole last year.
Hopkinton seemed fine. I don't think it's anywhere near pre-covid though. Most seemed to not come in the full 5 days though. Friday was much more like the last few months, mostly deserted.
I will echo what others have said though, I don't think I saw any leadership actually on site.
Horrible work space. To call it dark, claustrophobia inducing, and unsafe would have been compliments. I wish they would just fire me. Oh and electrical power provided by 10 metre prolunga.
How was week 1 back you ask? Well I caught Covid, the worse case of it I have ever had.
Its funny how this company went from vax mandate even if you work from home to sardine as many people into dirty dilapidated offices and workstations as possible
Seattle. Day 1 was busy. Day 2 was busy ish. Day 3 and 4 was like the 3-day mandate days. Day 5 was mostly empty. If people don’t make a good faith attempt we will get worse mandates.
the workstations are lousy. Standing desks that go up and down on their own, docking stations that don't actually work. It's a mess. If you want us back, at least make the working environment workable.
RTO is a mad waste of time, and thankfully enough of my team acknowledges that. We badge and leave to go get work done at home since it is way too loud in office from like 1-2 people with zero volume control. Plus the desks are pretty gross, and the peripherals su-k
Before Covid hit I had very little dealings with teams in the States, despite us belonging to the same departments. I mean no offense to any of those guys but I hope it goes back to that now that I clock out at 5. I have definitely had less dealings with leadership and have started rejecting meeting invites after 5pm.
We have half the working week for a time in my calendar to be booked. If it’s that urgent then why not log in at 7am rather than have me log in at 6pm.
We had about 50% participation, even my manager only made it in 3 days. I had a ton of fun catching up with folks I haven't seen if a few years and accomplished about 1/5 of what would have done working from home. ALL actual collaborations and team meetings were done over Zoom/Teams and several of my customers complained about all the office background noise.
Once Gen X hangs it up, this country is sc--wed. The last generation with an old school work ethic yet nimble enough to adapt with the changing technoy.
I went in all five days. Collaborated with my team, over Teams. Things I’ve noticed.
- No teams in conference rooms collaborating.
- No cleaning of work stations. They are all gross.
- Generational differences. Boomers- all seem to wear a Dell/EMC uniform. They congregate by the coffee machine and speak of the “good old days”.
Gen X - only ones who seem to actually be working and getting things done.
Millennials - badge in, stay a bit and badge out. Apparently they need to leave at noon to pick up from daycare at 5. Where’s the fun in that? Nothing gets your adrenaline pumping like weaving in and out of traffic at 80mph to get to pick up by 5:15.
Gen Z - what exactly do they do all day? They wonder around in packs. Even to the bathroom! You rarely see one alone and when you do, they can’t make eye contact and look at you like you’re a serial ki-ler.
- And the Stanley cups. It’s like nails on a chalkboard with all that ice rattling around.
- Leadership - where the heck are they? I’ve only seen ONE director. That’s it. They sit behind closed doors all day or hide from us.
Given the nature of our business, in person collaboration is impossible. Not sure how forcing people in five days a week will help that, we are scattered all over the globe. But hey, whatever.
same result either way.
It's called adulting. Wake up, drive to work, put in the time, drive home, rinse & repeat. Simple concept.
have to rush in by 8 am to literally sit on the phone with India and then scrum meetings after that. Everyone on headsets in the office. Love the collaboration.