Or maybe Calzone Day.
Work advice form “Slate” LMAO seriously?
You either come back to the office or you don’t have a job. That sounds good to me.
You either come back to the office or you don’t have a job. That sounds good to me.
Report Monday or seek employment elsewhere.
You’re check is in the mail...
They’ll be begging to come back in about 6 months.
Fire them or don’t, but stop whining about it.
Or maybe Calzone Day.
During COVID, they had our department broken up. You’d be in for two weeks and work from home for two weeks. During the weeks I wasn’t supposed to be in office, I could come in during the evenings when no one was around and get OT as needed.
There was hardly anyone in the office during the two weeks I was in. the dress code was very casual. in the summer of 2020, I’d wear shorts and a tshirt to work. I was always showered and shaved. No one cared.
But I admit that I like working from home. Instead of getting up at 6AM, I sleep ‘til 8:15AM, get out of bed in my gym shorts and tshirt and walk into another room and turn on my laptop. Later on in the morning when the pressing work is done, I take a shower and then resume working.
More employees working at home means less office space required that lowers the costs for the employer.
It’s a win/win
“2 dollars of free stuff to spend 2 extra hours a day commuting to the office.”
But really, if the company wants people at the office just fire those who refuse. It’s that easy. Being in manufacturing I don’t see how anything can really be done offsite outside of accounting and some engineering.
These companies should have fought against the lockdowns and vaccine mandates when they had the chance. But instead, they grabbed their ankles for the government tyrants, and coerced their employees into getting jabbed. They can go get stuffed.
I’m never going back. Lots of others feel the same way.
I’m at the point in my career when I have enough experience and I’m in an area that is in demand and is going to stay in demand. There simply aren’t enough people with the amount of experience the banks want to see. So if one bank tries to insist, I’ll simply say “no” knowing I can and will get hired by another which is willing to meet my minimum pay requirements and willing to allow me to work 100% remote.
The other reason is....why should I spend an hour and a half of my day in a stressful commute, spend the money for gas, spend the money to park, spend the money for lunch/drinks, spend the money for doggy daycare because I can’t leave my lab stuck at home inside and alone for 9 and a half hours at a time.......when I don’t have to?
I’ve calculated the numbers. It saves me roughly $10,000 after tax dollars per year to not commute into the office. Even then, that is paying me nothing for the hour and a half of commuting in heavy traffic.
PLUS
- I can’t do my job any better in a cube farm than I can at home
- I’m away from the leftist authoritarians at HR as well as any boss who wants to micromanage every single thing I do
- I’m away from the constant noise and interruptions at work
- when we have useless meetings on Zoom I can just mute them and do something else unlike at work when I’m stuck there and have to pretend I’m paying attention.
There are all sorts of reasons why working from home is better. I haven’t even mentioned that I can now leave the city and buy a house somewhere else thus getting vastly more value for my money.
I’ve worked remote for 15 years now. I’d never go back to an office. And frankly it’s a lot cheaper to have me work from home rather than rent out the office space, office furniture, parking space for me. Everything I do is on the computer and once a week we have a video meeting. It’s not a big deal.
Here’s an idea - come back to work or find another job...
This is DIRE! If people don’t come to the office, what are all those useless middle management people going to do??? With no one to boss around, they become much less necessary. If that process continues, pretty soon it will be the useless upper management people with ridiculous salaries that get canned! OH NOES!!!
This is DIRE! If people don’t come to the office, what are all those useless middle management people going to do??? With no one to boss around, they become much less necessary. If that process continues, pretty soon it will be the useless upper management people with ridiculous salaries that get canned! OH NOES!!!
Tell them to report back to the office on Monday or they’re fired. How hard is that? You pay, you say.
This is a sore spot with me.
My job can’t be done remotely and When I came down with COVID a year ago I had to burn all of my vacation time and then some. (A few unpaid days as well) However some co-workers could “work” from home and have COVID at the same time so they didn’t lose anything. They kept all their PTO and never received a short paycheck.
Still P/O’d about it.