* For management employees only cuz you craft employees have a whole different experience & attitude to this bullsh-t. *
How do you feel when you are sitting in a video team meeting in your Dallas office with 3 peers while the rest of your team is remote dialing in from their home, vacation, kids swim lessons, etc.?
@ch managers should be gone by 2026. Any company with lots of managers managing is not innovating or autonomous
@12w no. "stay at home workers" do nothing
"get back to the office and put life back to normal!"
Except we were a hybrid company long before Covid.
Jealous much? Get over it! Smart people work smarter.
We live in a nation of laws. The President said remote work is over. I don't understand the pushback. The former President declared the pandemic ended over 2 years ago. We won, now get back to the office and put life back to normal! If you have kids at home, you don't see how bad WFH is for mental health. RTO was designed to improve the communities mental health.
Yes. It's bullsh-t to have the majority of my peers working from home 5 days a week.
"Yet another reason why I think you're full of sh-t."
Definitely full of sh!+. The statement, "A large majority do not work" is so off base and outright wrong. If this were true then the worker level is not the issue, it is the supervisor level that should be targeted. And while I know of a few workers that were often unavailable on Teams/Q when I tried to contact them, the vast majority of my coworkers were almost immediate responders to my questions.
I forgot to add, if someone isn't working and you have them on camera "shopping at Costco" while on a meeting, why aren't you reporting them to HR?
Instead, you're bi--hing and whining on here. Yet another reason why I think you're full of sh-t.
They are being paid company $$dollars to do things that are actually all for off-work time - hobbies, vacations, sports, gardening and shopping
Again, fake news lol. Nobody is doing this during work hours. If your manager has to ask you why you're not delivering anything, then you end up on the chopping block the next round of layoffs.
Another fact: the company made record profits and delivered some of the best results during Covid. You know, when everyone was working from home? Evidentially, remote work isn't the issue.
RTO isn't about performance, it's a mechanism to get people to quit without severance, because the cost cutting effort to reduce headcount to 75,000 hasn't gone away.
Imagine actually GOING to work? Like a workplace? And working?
Why are white collar workers surprised at the mass changes? A large majority do not work. They are being paid company $$dollars to do things that are actually all for off-work time - hobbies, vacations, sports, gardening and shopping
Interesting analogy and spot on.
Actually it isn't, because dogs at the pound still have assigned cages.
We can't even get fu--ing that.
“Dont hate remote employees, they're not the ones that forced you into the office 3x, then 5x with no assigned seating like a bunch of dogs at the pound.”
Interesting analogy and spot on. (see what I did there?)
The truth is, we refer to all employees as dogs. Too many mouths to feed. Giving them nothing but table scraps. Make them beg, yelp and roll over when we command them to do so. We give them little treats (ida awards) and pat them on the head. You are dogs.
Dont hate remote employees, they're not the ones that forced you into the office 3x, then 5x with no assigned seating like a bunch of dogs at the pound.
"if they're going to force us to work in office like it's 2015 again."
You are off by about 15 years. I was hired into AT&T as a hybrid employee back in 2000. With the desk arrangements and time reporting, we have gone back to the turn of the 20th century at this point.
D-mb is sitting in an office and only on teams calls all day because ya know no one is at your same office. My whole team is spread across the US.
I'll be the first today that anyone with an AT&T pension needs to be in office. Remote work needs to equal no pension, to keep the playing field level. Conversely, the company needs to bring back the pension if they're going to force us to work in office like it's 2015 again.
I had a manager who was also owned a real estate company. Dude was missing all the time.
Disappear for hours at a time. Untouchable since being permitted report to an office only once per month.
I wish I could work from home. To those few that still can enjoy it while it lasts.
More power to them - I’ve never had a problem with remote workers. Those I work with are smart and deliver the goods. Sometimes those who sit next to me in the office not so much.
Location does not matter and you all know this!!
Supervisors says something in front of you but they actually don’t defend or present right facts in front of anyone, so don’t expect anything from them.
while the rest of your team is remote dialing in from their home, vacation, kids swim lessons, etc.?
Fake news
Don't worry, we won't be around for 2026 or maybe even q4.
People are joining Teams meetings from swim lessons?
Bold.
I’m happy for the remote workers. They tend to work harder than those of us stuck in the office, counting down hours to go sit in rush hour traffic.
I think it’s cancer to the corporate culture and needs to be corrected. Make then come into the office just like the rest of us. I’m bitter about it and everyone else is too. Worry about yourself is getting old.
Enjoy it. You will be out next.
I feel like I got tricked into doing everyone else's work whole they play.