I’ve been remote for 5 years, since Covid. And it’s been wonderful. I’ve been more productive, happier, better relationship with my family, had more time for hobbies and cooking healthy, spent WAY less money on fast food and gasoline. Before Covid I was in an office and hated it, but didn’t even know why, after I was home for a few weeks I realized why, it’s because I wasn’t being interrupted and distracted every 5 seconds all day long and when I had meetings I could keep working while talking on the video call instead of having to log off, get up and walk to a meeting room.

Now they are making half the company come back in if you are within some arbitrary radius. Which means teams are all split like mine where half must now commute in, but half don’t, so me and half my team now has to commute in just to go into a conference room and join a video call with the other half.

And the meetings are scattered all over every day so that basically means no actual work will get done every day.

I’m looking forward to chatting with my coworkers and laughing as productivity tanks.

Maybe instead of having meetings all day and forcing people to commute in for a computer based job management could be clear about what is needed, enable people and set them up for success and then leave them alone to get it done.

It feels like trying to swim 100m, but there is a manager walking along the edge next to you asking you for updates every 5 seconds. Still swimming and the more you ask the longer this takes.

I think RTO is just a power play. They can do a soft pay cut, a soft layoff as people quit, establish dominance and force employees to be their fake little family instead of their actual families.

It’s so ridiculous.

It’s the same fad thing as Open Office Layouts were a decade or two ago. Everyone hates it, productivity tanked, it was miserable, but everyone was doing it so CEOs did it to show how current they were.

It’s a classic manipulation technique. It’s never “I think that…” It’s always framed as “Lots of people think that …” to give it credibility, but it’s a lie and meant to manipulate you into feeling like you are alone and the group all thinks differently than you to force you to comply.

Lots of leaders do it. Trump does it constantly. CEOs do it. Abusive people do it in their relationships.

Once you know it and recognize it you start seeing it EVERYWHERE from dishonest people.

It’s funny to ask them “Which people say that?” If you can. It makes them SQUIRM.

I guess that can be true, but my company is all over the country. Teams like mine are half local and half out of state. They are forcing us all back in the office, but not for all those far away. There are small teams that have only 1 or 2 people local and they are making that one person drive into an office anyway. It’s like a slap in the face to me.

We’ve proved remote work is better in every metric.

If they really want people to have a better rapport, there are other ways besides decreeing blindly that everyone must travel to a central space. It just puts all the cost and burden on the employees and takes 0 effort from management to actually, ya know, manage.

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I was making the point that people are just now finally realizing that Zionism, similar to Christian Nationalism in the US, have been the issue all along. It’s been 80 years and here they are each repeating all the same atrocities all over again.

Tribalism and fear and hate is causing so much destruction and death and suffering.

Whoa whoa whoa! You forgot grifter, conman, asshole, buffoon, ancient, out of touch, spoiled, narcissistic, evil, bully, dumb little bitch.

Math checks out.

We don’t have public transportation over here. Over here in MURICA we pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and we float that way to wherever we need to go. Just a bunch of dumb Americans bending over grabbing their boots and flying around. Don’t visit, tis a silly place over here.

I’ve been through Germany and a decent chunk of Europe and every single place had 100x better mass transit than here. It is hilarious to me hearing someone complaining that the bus was a few minutes late every day and over here the bus only arrives at 1 stop within range of you and only 2 times a day at best. And you probably have to walk 30 minutes to get to the stop. And the bus just takes you downtown to the business district, if you don’t want that tough luck, buy a car.

Oh and the trains! OMG I loved the trains. I did night trains to other countries in Europe, I rode trains around Germany And Switzerland. Simple lovely. Not the most comfortable, but to do that in the US I would have had to rent a car and drive that whole way myself. Instead I got to take a nap, read a book, play cards with friends.

The Gaza shore is lovely this time of year, would be nice to visit if not for ALL THE GENOCIDE!!!

Listen, ketamine billionaires goin around distributing presidency is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical ignorant ceremony.

Ketamine, Kamps and Krash

Ew gross, you are going to the US, on purpose!? 🤣

All these things haven’t suddenly become woke, YOU JUST BECAME A RACIST BIGOTED XENOPHOBIC ASSHOLE!!! AKA MAGA.

You know, I’m starting to wonder if Hitler and the Holocaust are not good things and maybe we should stop him.

Yeah, fair. But also, you can’t convince me that every single MAGA just don’t know what’s going on. We are all telling them, showing them, showing up with receipts and history books, proving their premises wrong at every turn, proving Trump a liar at every turn, proving all the horrible things true at every turn. And they always just go “whatever, I voted for this!”

At some point it isn’t just propaganda and ignorance, but willfully and knowingly.

They have permission to be racist, hateful, assholes and bullies and abusers and they love it. And they love that he is doing it all for them and they can just sit back and watch.

At this point the 37% he has reflects less on his incompetence and idiocy and more on their intelligence and racism.

But yeah, that’s insanely high for how bad and racist he is.

Wonder what Hitler or Stalin polled at during different points.

Praise be his hypocritical name. In the name of the racism, the grift, and the holy crime, amen.

They play your favorite song, but the tuba is right in your face and the band is off key.

Florida is already the rusty old car on blocks in the front yard.

All we gotta do is trick convince some company to hire us as CEO. Get paid millions more than the employees and do nothing! Sounds like my kind of gig.