Listening to the Townhall now, leadership turned off the user comments on the video. Surely, leadership knew the text chain would be a constant barrage of employees stating they do NOT want to return to office at Deerfield.
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I don't understand who Ginger is, but anyway....the people who actually WANT to work on campus must be old Boomers. That is very old-fashioned thinking.
There really is no reason to work onsite in this day and age. If you can't trust yourself to get your work done without your boss breathing down your neck, then you are an irresponsible child.
MODERN ADULTS want to work from home and be trusted to get our work done. We do not need to physically touch to do our jobs. I also don't need people coughing all over the place and giving me COVID while I'm stuck in this ugly, depressing, out dated office space!!!
SELL THE DEERFIELD CAMPUS AND LET US ALL WFH PERMANENTLY!!!!! Walgreens is wasting money keeping the campus open! Really poor business choice. Throwing money away!
There are three categories or class of employees. One with remote executive jobs, Second with remote employees living more than 50 miles from office. Third one requires 4 days RTO to Deerfield. What about first two categories of employees? Can the hybrid employees move more than 50 miles and be eligible for remote work ? The recent actions looks like to discourage hybrid employees to continue with Walgreens
Yes, privilege is a great way to describe the negativity and incessant whining about commuting or extra costs to god forbid work for an obviously high salaried job. If it wasn’t you would just quit and go somewhere else. I do hear the Border Patrol is still hiring. You might not have a car, but they her four wheelers and horses sometimes.
What you don’t realize is we have store employees making minimum wage or just above that live on the far south side that take multiple buses and trains to commute that same 2+ hours each way just to work in a “safe” community like Morton Grove or Evanston. These hard working (and much less paid) individuals barely break $30K a year and do it with a smile. You make much more, complain and insult others who disagree with you. It’s called life. Sh!t happens. Deal with it and be glad you have options that others don’t even when you pretend you cry your Karen tears because you face a challenge in life.
@ak I agree with you and do not want you to have to commute to work. I do agree. I think Walgreens is just using this as a way to get people to quit. I also think, in general, that return-to-office is a way to protect real estate values in otherwise empty office buildings and also to keep money flowing in various cities where works eat and get gas, etc.
However, I just want to mention that the word "privilege" is a word designed to divide-and-conquer. I think your great arguments are less strong when you use that word. Thank you.
Hang tight – let’s hope the reduction of office days rumor is true… Going back 2-3 days a week won’t be as bad as 4… Although I don’t know how they determine whether they do 2 or 3, cause obviously 2 is the better choice. There is literally no room… It was very packed in Deerfield today, I can’t even imagine adding 500+ OPO people into the mix.
@a9 technically I did get a pay decrease, I’ll be spending $200+ every month in order to commute. That’s $200 I was NOT spending working from home or working from OPO. Since you clearly feel that’s not a significant sum of money why don’t you just Venmo me $200 on the 1st of every month.
@a9 I live in the city and do not have a car. I cannot drive. I’m expected to uproot my family and move to Deerfield just to appease the RTO policy? I was happy to commute to OPO 4 days a week. My daily commute would be nearly 5 hours round trip on public transportation. Let me guess, the individual stating “grow up and go to work” lives within 45 minutes of the office and has their car in a heated garage attached to their home. Did I guess that correctly? YOU need to grow up. We should be sticking up for each other, not defending Sycamores spineless decision
@a5 I live in Chinatown. I do not have a car. My round trip commute would involve three trains, and 30 minutes of walking. The commute would be about 2.5 hours each way. Am I expected to uproot my family to move closer on the pathetic salary Walgreens provides? Or buy a car, in this economy? You’re speaking from a place of privilege.
Ginger is no longer involved
@a9 a lot of us have kids, houses, families that we cannot just uproot. The OPO made it feasible to work at Walgreens and live in the south & west suburbs.
Option 1 move closer to the Deerfield Office or Drive. At least you have job, nor did you get a pay decrease.
Grow up and go to work.
Ginger and the board are already here trying to downvote lmfao