I know a guy that’s doing at least once a week, probably more, commute from DC to New York City. To be a product guy at a like 5 person company. As if you really need to be in a shared office to move jira tickets, ask eng again “How’s that feature coming?”, and so on. The CEO is a crazy person.
The CEO is also making the front end developer guy who lives in Connecticut come into the office 2-3 times a week. So he can work on his web page, the one with the code stored on github.
I hate all this “return to office” stuff. I don’t care about management’s feelings or real estate investments, and I don’t care about people who hate their family and can’t focus at home. Making people commute is a pay cut and a blow against labor.
So it’s been a few weeks, and the result has been unfortunately anticlimactic.
So for starters, there was actually closer to 60 seats available, so somebody was either lying or mistaken about seat count by the time it got to my group.
Then, it also appears that the enforcement of it has been lagging. It seems my manager was one of a few who listened, and others did not.
On the bright side, they haven’t given us shit for leaving at lunch and working from home the remainder of the day. I’ve been doing so as much as possible because fuck contributing/being stuck in traffic. Though I’m sure they’ll close this partial loophole soon.
I’m in a position where I work with a team of 8 fixed employees that could easily work hybrid schedules. Our manager is hybrid though, and barely spends any time at the office. It creates such a difficult dynamic- our team works together really well but when our manager does come in it feels like an intrusion almost. Immediate us vs them just because everyone else spends so much time together.
I know a guy that’s doing at least once a week, probably more, commute from DC to New York City. To be a product guy at a like 5 person company. As if you really need to be in a shared office to move jira tickets, ask eng again “How’s that feature coming?”, and so on. The CEO is a crazy person.
The CEO is also making the front end developer guy who lives in Connecticut come into the office 2-3 times a week. So he can work on his web page, the one with the code stored on github.
I hate all this “return to office” stuff. I don’t care about management’s feelings or real estate investments, and I don’t care about people who hate their family and can’t focus at home. Making people commute is a pay cut and a blow against labor.
My department just got called in for an RTO with zero warning, with 3 days in person for a ~160 person department.
There are ~20 desks available. Do the math.
This next week is going to be a disaster for their coked up idea of good business practices.
Please update us if you can, that sounds like a delicious level of schadenfreude.
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So it’s been a few weeks, and the result has been unfortunately anticlimactic.
So for starters, there was actually closer to 60 seats available, so somebody was either lying or mistaken about seat count by the time it got to my group.
Then, it also appears that the enforcement of it has been lagging. It seems my manager was one of a few who listened, and others did not.
On the bright side, they haven’t given us shit for leaving at lunch and working from home the remainder of the day. I’ve been doing so as much as possible because fuck contributing/being stuck in traffic. Though I’m sure they’ll close this partial loophole soon.
So it all just fucking sucks for no reason. Wooo
Damn. I hope you can find something better where they aren’t treating you like a frog in a slowly heating pot
I hope so too. But the job market is fucked, especially for software development.
Yeah. Antiwork will eat it up.
@Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net Do it.
I wanna see the chaos too!
Someone should get a fog machine so visibility in the packed office drops to zero, and hand out free vuvuzelas at the entrance.
I’m in a position where I work with a team of 8 fixed employees that could easily work hybrid schedules. Our manager is hybrid though, and barely spends any time at the office. It creates such a difficult dynamic- our team works together really well but when our manager does come in it feels like an intrusion almost. Immediate us vs them just because everyone else spends so much time together.