Frank was a miserable little criminal troll. Mike had the personality and warmth of a snow pea. Takis is pretty personable and has said the right things. I don't like the idea of not automatically replacing attrition, but nothing has changed in that regard. Having been in meetings with him, he's so curious and inquisitive. I hope we are in good hands. Time will tell.
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@am I wonder if Takis misspoke there because he referred to having flexibility we had “pre-Covid” like what? What flexibility was there? Unless I misheard him.
@a2 that rolling the clock back to 2019 bullsh-t didn't sit right with my colleagues. You can't put back the genie once it's out. Remote work is here to stay.
@aa yeah and I understand teams have different responsibilities that require different flexibility. But I was more hopeful of a company wide policy on flexibility. Like sure leave it to manager discretion but signal to the company broadly “I hear you on needing more flexibility, less time in office etc so let’s try and do those things”. Even if it’s just optics, it matters because it tells me what kind of CEO we have. Is he going to be a hard a-s like Frank with the RTO nonsense or different.
@a2 He said it was up to the managers. I guess I am lucky that in my area, managers are mature about it. We come and go as we please, generally, but we work.
We're an in office company....tells me what I need to know.
Personable does not equal trustworthy or good at your job. A lot of people are very personable/charismatic and also awful. Maybe he won't be worse, but I wouldn't trust him to have anyone's interests in mind but his own.
Still a bit too vague on the flexibility though.