This is why they never want us succeeding in improving our lives. It reveals how they’ve been lying to us and we were just stupid enough to go along with it.
My commute is already about 10% longer thanks to the extra traffic. People fled the city and moved to the burbs after covid, then RTO hit and now a bunch of them are on the roads. Easily added a measurable amount of time to my drive, and I’ve been doing the same commute for a decade.
And really some jobs can be totally done at home. Like planning an other administrative stuff. Everything else where you need to be there at the job site should be the only thing coming back. Like builders, engineering, hair styling, receptionist, etc, those jobs need to be done at the job site, we all get it. But everything else, we just need a good org chart and teams…or something better…plz could some software company create a teams software where you can share a power point in full screen? It’s hilarious when you try Sharing a PowerPoint on teams and you get like a whole 1/4 of the screen to show the PPT. Then you gotta go a little known menu here to remove the people, so the PPT gets a little bigger, then another setting to go “full screen” and you get another 3 extra pixels, then go to view some such to get another 5 pixels. It’s ridiculous! But it’s what limits the people who can work at home. Just need better collaboration software. Anything is better than Microsoft.
Could be? It absolutely is! That would be an extra 50 miles I would have to drive every weekday. They have entire global organizations meeting together to figure out where to set goals for cutting emissions, but these easily-avoidable emissions are fine apparently. The so-called “leaders” aren’t taking the problem seriously.
RTO, much like everything else is about rich people. The Canadian Federal government just announced that all public servants must be in office 60% of the time by September (up from 40%). And the only reason is due to lobbying by real estate holders and businesses downtown.
I’m so fucking tired of rich people not only having the advantage of being rich but also getting every other advantage handed to them by the government.
Some Executives have no understanding of the need for Deep Work and can't imagine how the office isn't good for it.
The problem is executives have no need of deep work, that's what they hire others for. Bad executives don't understand this and assume you need what they need.
When my org announced RTO, I started looking for another job. A month later I had a new gig and a nice pay bump. Nobody’s gonna look out for you but you, my friend.
I’m someone who vastly prefers to work in an office. It’s kind of a pain in the ass dealing with remote workers, meetings having gone to teams instead of in person, it just feels impersonal and as a former manager it is harder to maintain and keep your staff engaged.
But this is the modern workforce, and we have plenty of evidence that productivity is still there with a hybrid or remote office. When I was a manager I had to change my strategies, I had to adapt and learn, just like everything else I do in my professional life. Now that I am part of leadership but without direct reports, it’s just more adapting and learning that I am doing to stay relevant.
poor management is why all these companies are trying to force people back, it’s just people who cannot adapt.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little twerp? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Business School, and I’ve been involved in numerous proprietary projects on SaaS, and I have over 300 confirmed scrum meetings. I am trained in project management and I’m the top scrum master in the entire US tech sector. You are nothing to me but just another software bug. I will commit you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my boss and team of developers across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your phone. You’re fucking done, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill hack you a hundred ways, and that’s just with my entry level engineers. Not only am I extensively trained in story points, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the corporate cyber security pen testing automation tool and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the internet, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking done, kiddo
Add comment