So, was anything important said? Or just the usual nonsense about RTO?
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@6gpp+: Exactly! Pretty much sums up my day as well. Since RTO, between commuting and the stupid open office environment, my productivity has dropped about 30 to 50 percent. And to the clown on here ragging on WFH, don't you have some a55es you should be kissing?
“The usual retorts will come- I waste time driving in, do I get smarter in the office etc. Yes, you do- by interacting with your co-workers. Whiteboarding, discussing projects over lunch instead of talking to your dog at home.”
Hmmm. I waste about 7 hours a week commuting, and by the time I make it to the office I’m already stressed out. So yea, it’s a thing!
I interact with my co-workers through Zoom because everyone else on my team is REMOTE!
We whiteboard through Zoom and other web tools because, you guessed it, everyone else on my team and other teams I interact with are REMOTE!
I have lunch with a few acquaintances I used to work with and we discuss anything but work projects.
I don’t have a dog at home, but I do have a fully functional private office that delivers the quiet that I need to concentrate (unlike the open space set up), and has a faster Wi-Fi than the office I am forced to commute to 5 times a day while my co-workers are doing the same work at home!
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Actually, I don’t have a dog….unless you count your wife. That’s one thing I do in my afternoons when “working” from home, boy.
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Excuse me? You SHUT your HÖ mouth, dear. YOU do not get to say who posts or doesn’t on here, OR the topics that are discussed, got it? Now, go back to kneeling in front of TK like the little biyatch you are. 🖕😂🖕
Whoever thinks logging into this site for teambuilding is not part of the job needs to think hard about why they're still here. The people still here are the real employees that actually care. Turn a blind eye to all this and you might as well be a WWII collaborator. It all won't really matter when the company goes bankrupt but at least we have some purpose, for now.
You know what, just stop - it’s tiresome now . Either suck it up if you choose to be still be at CSG or resign. We don’t need miserable, small minded and frankly lazy people- it just makes everyone else’s life hard.
This guy thinks the only way to check upon our productivity is to force us into an office.
Tom, I know it's Friday afternoon, but shouldn't you be working?
"RTO has zero to do with productivity. It has to do with control. Employers are scared of losing control over their employees, simple as that."
And why do you think that is? They are paying you a steady pay check. They expect that you will perform and want to be sure that you are.. By signing up to work for a company, you agreed to be checked upon. If you don't like it, go be a freelancer and deal with contracts that will still control your delivery.
RTO has zero to do with productivity. It has to do with control. Employers are scared of losing control over their employees, simple as that.
Amazing to see how the RTO topic is still so hot on this forum. Are none of you reading the news? Are you sitting on the beach, ignoring the world? If you can be remote, so can Rajiv, or Sanjay or Ranya or Soumendra in Bangalore, at 1/5th the price. Yes, you think you are superior but are you 5x more valuable? Nah....
The usual retorts will come- I waste time driving in, do I get smarter in the office etc. Yes, you do- by interacting with your co-workers. Whiteboarding, discussing projects over lunch instead of talking to your dog at home.
And now please don't give the BS. about you being more productive at home- code checkins, bug reports and all kinds of other objective measures show that for a majority of workers, effectiveness has gone down. Unless you are in that top 1% genius engineer category and are able to produce 10X more than the average, stats are showing that you are spending more time with your dog, going shopping during the day, and doing all kinds of non-work things because, you can.
Lets get real. You want more money, and you want to spend time with your dog.. That equation doesn't compute- it never did...
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That wasn’t belching. Try the other side. I swear I saw a stream of something dripping from his Depends adult diapers.
It doesn't occur to guys the TK that anyone could have motivations beyond money.
I heard through the grapevine that they are having a lot of trouble hiring. Apparently, the money isn't actually that good, either.
"He seemed pleased the data gathered by badge-scan counting lackey(s) showed attendance increased in March. Then thanked everyone for coming back to office, which was a joke, considering he's previously threated to fire people if they didn't."
Krause seems to relate RTO mandates to be like herding sheep into pens. But employees are not livestock, they are people with hopes and dreams. Working at CSG drains my soul from any remaining dignity I have left. Living in fear of termination is not a life worth living.
It should be clear to everyone that CSG is a very bad place to be. Get out if you can, and tell anyone you know to stay away.
We should feel so priviledged to breath the rarified air of the FANG companies that we now compete with, but unlike them, our rarified stock price can only go up because we can make the banks eat all the losses. It doesn't matter if we make rare mistakes or if people leave because there are enough rarified stock and bonus carrots to dangle in front of people and keep them around as they wait for vesting, seasoning, board approvals and many other rarified conditions before they see real cash for all the hard work making a rare engine for paying off debts, so the stock price can go up, then we can buy other rare companies and rarify them too. The idea of being rich enough for rarified air is nice, but at what cost?
Lots of talk about how you could increase your bonus (in theory). Not one word about how to make CSG a better place to work.
Regarding RTO, I didn't see anything about him giving up on RTO. He put up a slide with headlines from news articles about other companies doing RTO and said something like, "See? It's not just us." Of course, he neglected to mention other companies are typically doing a hybrid RTO, not the hard-a55ed RTO he's fixated on. He seemed pleased the data gathered by badge-scan counting lackey(s) showed attendance increased in March. Then thanked everyone for coming back to office, which was a joke, considering he's previously threated to fire people if they didn't.
So much belching through his presentation. It was disgusting.
I think he is finally giving up on the RTO. I heard him say we don't have to come in if we don't want to, but hopes that we do. Something along these lines. I want to listen back to that part, but I'm fairly sure.