But doggie day care? That's discriminatory to people who have pet alpacas.
Posted on 03/25/2023 6:37:47 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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Save the company a lot of money by eliminating these unnecessary overhead expenses.
telework is a total scam. People in the office are doing the actual work. Teleworkers are just creating more work for the people in the office. Get rid of them.
But doggie day care? That's discriminatory to people who have pet alpacas.
From what I hear we've gone to a hotel concept. You just show up and take a desk. So it's not even your own "space" any longer.
Then you're sitting by some woketard who is looking to be upset at every little thing they hear.
What's driving this back to the office business is money.
Specifically tax revenue and spending. Downtown realators, businesses, etc, are seeing declining revenues as people are WFH.
This means local gubmint isn't getting the money they used to. And gubmint does one thing well....take your money.
Follow the money trail and you will see who is pushing back to the office.
Dog hotels? What about diversity? What about cats?
That people daycare, disguised as work, didn’t pan out for the US tech companies that just had to lay off 1,000’s.
I am shocked to see people bringing dogs everywhere. I’ve seen them in grocery stores, hardware stores and even a restaurant. These aren’t service dogs. While I haven’t witnessed a biting incident, I expect to start reading about them and the subsequent lawsuits. Aside from biting, I know from my days in the grocery business that dogs might produce a pile on the floor or pee on a handy corner since I was the guy to answer, “cleanup on aisle four!” Everyone is trying to be dog friendly and emotionally supportive. Business-wise, this is stupid.
I’m a landlord. This week I got a letter cancelling the insurance at one of my houses because, during an inspection the inspector heard a dog barking inside. I have to supply a breed analysis, a bite history, weight and color photos. But, just to get things going on reducing their liability they didn’t ask me for those things first, they just went ahead and cancelled so their liability exposure would be minimal if the dogs were determined to be dangerous. Although these dogs are owned by my tenant, an animal control officer, they look as though they might have some Pitbull in them. Trust me, the genes in these dogs have more mix than a soup made by a starving man. If I lose the insurance, I must get rid of the tenant or the dogs because if I don’t have the house insurance then my liability insurance is cancelled. Because of our litigious society I can’t afford the risk.
If the company got along fine with these employees working from home for 2-3 years …
Dogs are a pretend way to be a ‘parent’ by woketards and 20-30 somethings that refuse to grow up.
Or replace them with 1 in office for every 2 stay at home employees
Well there’s “get along fine” and there’s “get along fine”. Technically my company got along fine during WFH. But, with people back in the office we definitely got the afterburners going again. Just being in the same area to discuss things has spawned feature ideas, and being able to holler over to somebody makes the work faster. Offices exist for a reason, and being together does actually help productivity.
Completely depends on the industry, companies and workers.
Loads of research and consulting types, for example, have been working fully remotely for decades. They are adults and highly productive.
I was one of the first to see the value of at least one day a week in the office (we are talking July 2020) just to stay connected with my co-workers.
In January, we got asked to do three which I thought was kind of stupid, but I went along with it because I understand some people just won't do much work from home and they can't or won't separate the two.
Last month, we got a new wokester CEO who asked for five days a week on site. This was stupid for two reasons (1)we reduced cube space at my office last year as work from home was supposed to be permanent and (2)I need two days to work from home just to get caught up on all the workload. I'm 67 and don't have the energy for 12 hours a day, five days a week. Yeah, I know it only 10, but the commute adds two hours and accomplishes nothing.
I told them I could give them the three days that I agreed to or I could retire. Take you pick.
Well, guess what? They backed off. A couple of our people retired when they asked for three days a week. They can't even get people to even show up for interviews to replace them.
Our HR guy (a decent old school guy who just has to carry water for the CEO) tried to talk me into committing to the end of the year. I told him maybe until the end of August if the new CEO doesn't come up with any more stupid demands.
Our reduced cube space is only about 40% full and the office that I was supposed to share remains private. Our HR guy thanked me for giving in as much as I did. They simply can't immediately replace the other 60% or so who wouldn't even agree to 1 to 3 days. That's the reality.
It’s cool that you had leverage as an older worker.
I am owned by a tomcat. (He’s a good master, so don’t worry about me.) I presume that along with the generous pile of fluffy white fur he daily deposits on me there must be a detectable, by dogs, signature of ownership. I was at a car show and a man was being towed around the show by a mid-sized Chihuahua (had to look up the spelling). The dog towed the man over to me, wrinkled his nose at my pant leg, spun around and urinated on my shoe. The man was mortified. He reacted like I was going to deck him. I smiled and said, “all good.”
However, when I got home Thomas J. Kitty raced over and sniffed my shoe. He sped up as I landed the next step and then the next step. After several attempts to remove the scent of Chihuahua urine so as to dissuade TJK from covering it with his own urine, I threw away the shoes.
Could you imagine that if, instead of me, a mild-mannered antique car owner, the dog had similarly acted his bladder upon one of the bikers, like Mad Max The Terminator. (He had the name silk screened onto his leather jacket.)
Sounds like Twitter offices BEFORE Elon, all those perks didn’t get these SPOILD BRATS to want to go back into the offices!! Elon took all of the PERKS away! OMG if someone had brought a box of doughnuts into the break room we thought we had died and gone to heaven!! What the hell has happened to our working young people??
Not always true. A software developer buddy will never go back to the office because he can get so much more code written at home where he isn’t constantly interrupted.
And I haven’t been out of the workforce so long thst I clearly remember the “Wally” types who sat in a cubicle and screwed around most of the time and got damn near nothing done. If they were a protected class, they knew they could get away with it and not be fired.
Nothing like a breath of fresh air at a doggy hotel! WHEW!! Good gawd!
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