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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:My wifes manager sold his house in Washington state and moved to Buffalo and then Amazon changed their mind about RTO. So far he still has a job. lol America is a very large poor country with a smaller rich parasitic country bolted on, and if you ever sell your way out of that smaller rich country it's very hard to buy your way back in
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Nov 15, 2023 21:34
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also this sounds like bullshit, fits their "everyone is going back to the office now!" narrative and 10% of the entire market would be a truly immense number of workers
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Nov 15, 2023 21:34
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https://www.post-gazette.com/business/development/2023/11/15/mcdonalds-huntington-bank-downtown-pittsburgh-zoning-board/stories/202311150051 Real estate speculator here has been buying up properties occupied by stuff like McDonald's downtown so he can evict them by raising the rent on renewal and getting higher $$$$ tenants (mostly banks). He's pissed off now that the city demanded a zoning variance for the bank instead of just letting him take the rent that is rightfully his.
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Nov 15, 2023 21:43
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:also this sounds like bullshit, fits their "everyone is going back to the office now!" narrative and 10% of the entire market would be a truly immense number of workers yeah, that is a massive number I find it hard to believe is anyone in this thread fighting with their company about remote work? it seems like they strongly encourage you to come in and if you don't, you will be first to get laid off.
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Nov 15, 2023 21:44
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:https://www.post-gazette.com/business/development/2023/11/15/mcdonalds-huntington-bank-downtown-pittsburgh-zoning-board/stories/202311150051 that motherfuckers name is nick nicholas
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Nov 15, 2023 21:47
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loving knew this was going to happen the moment the labor market tightened even a little bit. Commercial real estate number is down and we can’t have that. Hasn’t happened to my family yet (knock on wood), but that percentage is sure making me anxious. Never trust your employer’s word on anything.
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Nov 15, 2023 21:50
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err posted:yeah, that is a massive number I find it hard to believe They tried to include me in the RTO initiative but I was hired on as fully remote and am states away so it was easily fought. I also basically control a process that's not easily replaceable.
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Nov 15, 2023 21:51
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Schmeichy posted:They tried to include me in the RTO initiative but I was hired on as fully remote and am states away so it was easily fought. I also basically control a process that's not easily replaceable. congratulations on the enormous bus factor, lovely work environment, and no raises/promotions (this doesn’t happen anyways)!
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Nov 15, 2023 21:53
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one of the perks of returning to the office is getting to spend time at local businesses (bank chains)
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Nov 15, 2023 21:55
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A Google employee told me number of badge swipes are directly tied to performance reviews now so that’s a thing. I’ve heard it’s informal at other companies but this is something else.
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Nov 15, 2023 21:56
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Nonsense posted:Mohamed looks like Gary from Howard Stern Howard Stern's
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Nov 15, 2023 21:57
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Nov 15, 2023 21:58
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err posted:yeah, that is a massive number I find it hard to believe I have 0 work from home days per week.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:06
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err posted:yeah, that is a massive number I find it hard to believe my employer tried to call me back in but i have a 'reasonable accommodation' for full time wfh. if they ever mess with it i'll just let them fire me because i moved 2 hours away from the office and i'm never going back
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Nov 15, 2023 22:07
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luckily corp ran out of office space (even after buying an entire street) and was happy to let the computer janitors work from home forever
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Nov 15, 2023 22:08
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shazbot posted:luckily corp ran out of office space (even after buying an entire street) and was happy to let the computer janitors work from home forever lol the Google employee who told me that said they have hotel desks because there aren’t enough desks for employees so don’t think that stops them from requiring RTO
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Nov 15, 2023 22:10
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FlapYoJacks posted:congratulations on the enormous bus factor, lovely work environment, and no raises/promotions (this doesn’t happen anyways)! I got a (small tbf) promotion this year and am training someone on the process now. The reduction in job security will be worth the ability to get hit by a bus (or disappear into the woods which is more likely)
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Nov 15, 2023 22:16
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Schmeichy posted:I also basically control a process that's not easily replaceable. Schmeichy posted:I am training someone on the process now. lol, lmao
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Nov 15, 2023 22:21
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err posted:yeah, that is a massive number I find it hard to believe I work in a very technical field but not 'tech' (industrial equipment and project management) in a non-technical role. My company has been completely onboard for remote work and I've had zero pushback on it from C-suite down. e. if you're a tech worker laid off/looking for something else I would pretty strongly recommend industrial controls. please. work somewhere so I have someone under the age of 60 to talk to about anything. Penisaurus Sex has issued a correction as of 22:25 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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Nov 15, 2023 22:22
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Glumwheels posted:A Google employee told me number of badge swipes are directly tied to performance reviews now so that’s a thing. I’ve heard it’s informal at other companies but this is something else. I have a friend who works there and apparently lines of code is a metric they're using for performance reviews. They must really be hard up for reasons to lay people off
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Nov 15, 2023 22:23
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Delta-Wye posted:lol, lmao 
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Nov 15, 2023 22:23
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Glumwheels posted:A Google employee told me number of badge swipes are directly tied to performance reviews now so that’s a thing. I’ve heard it’s informal at other companies but this is something else. I know folks with on-site jobs where they count the number of badge swipes and auto-fire people who don't come up with enough of them. Companies are really getting desperate to kill remote work.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:27
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I work in tech for a bank and they are def counting badge swipes per week as part of employee reviews. We also don’t have enough desks for everyone so teams have to schedule around each other for which 3 days they come into the office.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:33
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err posted:yeah, that is a massive number I find it hard to believe my company basically said anyone that was in the office before covid needs to return. it sounds like for anyone that moved they may be able to convert to full time WFH. we used to have the whole floor of an office building, but they sublease half of it out to another company now. most of the people I work with are in other offices or are WFH. even if I’m working with the guy in the next cube it’s probably in a Teams call with remote coworkers. there is zero magical in person synergy in my role. they only want me in two days a week, and they don’t even care for how long. I can come in for an hour and then finish the day from home. upper management is just counting badge swipes and as long as number goes up they’ll be happy number must always go up
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Nov 15, 2023 22:38
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I'm never working in an office again, employers can blow me
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Nov 15, 2023 22:40
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err posted:yeah, that is a massive number I find it hard to believe my biotech job sold their HQ and have a new, smaller HQ with about 1/3rd the employees "assigned" there 3x/wk, the other 2/3rds are either 1x/wk or fully remote and have to hotel/hotdesk if they come in also german privacy laws forced them to disclose that they are collecting badge swipe info and also forced them to anonymize/aggregate it through the german worker's council before mgmt. is allowed to see the data we have retention issues due to a toxic working culture so in general the communication has been "smol bean pwease don't leave" stuff
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Nov 15, 2023 22:42
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Nov 15, 2023 22:47
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I'm never working in an office again, employers can blow me same, my current company is fully remote, but I'll want an actual raise at some point and anywhere that wants me in an office can get hosed
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Nov 15, 2023 22:47
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lol they're closing our office but this director is so horny for RTO that now we're going to be alternating days in-person in order to share cubes in another nearby office, there's a schedule and everything ofc there's like two weirdos who come in every day and now won't be able to do that my pm told me he already expects the office to be way emptier than management seems to think. currently we all come in midweek and lotsa people skip the required in-person days that aren't wednesday. should be fun to see
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Nov 15, 2023 22:58
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err posted:yeah, that is a massive number I find it hard to believe I make a point to badge in every day but I’ve been hybrid since 2021 and I’m staying hybrid until they threaten to fire me. I just open the door to my office, turn on the light, and go sign in from home unless I have specific in person meetings with someone above me in the food chain. This seems like a fairly common approach across my company outside of the wierdos that love working in the office.
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Nov 15, 2023 23:12
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RealityWarCriminal posted:one of the perks of
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Nov 15, 2023 23:17
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My favorite part of working in the office is all the places I can spend $25 to have lunch
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Nov 15, 2023 23:19
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Just leave your hat on the desk.
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Nov 15, 2023 23:19
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I love how much RTO is exposing what an oligarchy this society is. Corporate landlords are losing money on their investment, which past performance has guaranteed future results, so everyone must work inefficiently on purpose just to satisfy them, and the President all the way on down to the local mayor says this is how it has to be.
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Nov 15, 2023 23:23
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when my ex-wife was in medical school their admin tried several different methods to force students to physically come to lectures and all it resulted in was cliques of students forming to coordinate with each other which lecture everyone was going to show up and click in for everyone else it was all very business-brainworms poo poo since a medical student who isn’t keeping up with material will get annihilated by the grueling test schedule, absolutely zero bullshit metrics needed
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Nov 15, 2023 23:31
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skooma512 posted:I love how much RTO is exposing what an oligarchy this society is. Corporate landlords are losing money on their investment, which past performance has guaranteed future results, so everyone must work inefficiently on purpose just to satisfy them, and the President all the way on down to the local mayor says this is how it has to be. I find it especially fascinating since one of the primary purposes of a business is to externalize as many costs as humanly possible, and remote work is a great way to do that. But I guess that's not really a consideration when it might interfere with the owners' other grifts.
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Nov 16, 2023 00:21
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Or the owner's desire to lord over other people.
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Nov 16, 2023 00:30
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Nov 16, 2023 00:47
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Kreeblah posted:I find it especially fascinating since one of the primary purposes of a business is to externalize as many costs as humanly possible, and remote work is a great way to do that. Some very large corporates / businesses are still all in on it for exactly those reasons.
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Nov 16, 2023 00:47
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As someone who’s worked in restaurants and retail, I have no sympathy or empathy for workers being told to go back to an office. However I do miss the traffic during early Covid so I’m a supporter of wfh.
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